The Ohio-Class Replacement lead submarine will carry a $14.5 billion price tag - a behemoth of a bill, even by Pentagon standards - that the Navy must reckon with for the first time this spring as it drafts a new five-year spending plan that is supposed to pay for the first boat in fiscal year 2021, pitting the service's top modernization priority against its entire conventional modernization portfolio. A recent Navy update of the Ohio-Class Replacement program presented to Pentagon acquisition executive Frank Kendall includes estimates of $8.8 billion in construction costs and $5.7 billion in non-recurring engineering work attributed to the first boat of the new class, according to a Navy spokeswoman, sums that account for inflation in accordance with DOD budgeting guidelines.
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