Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Construction Schedule Compression.

摘要

The shipbuilding industry has made significant advances in its use of modernized ship construction techniques and facilities. I am certain that many of the papers being presented at this Symposium will describe those techniques and address the technical advantages that accrue from their use. This paper, in addition to discussing those topics, attempts to examine the environment in which improvements in ship construction can occur and looks at the type of planning that must be done to ensure benefits are realized. The Navy is now the major customer of the U.S. shipbuilding industry, and even with the increased emphasis on competitive procurement, by necessity, contracts for a significant amount of sole source ship construction will exist due to technical or facility constraints. For these contracts, as well as many others, the shipbuilder has a limited incentive to accept the increases in risk inherent in changing his business strategy and existing industrial processes. The Navy has recognized this problem and I will now attempt to describe the successful effort to change this environment for aircraft carrier construction.