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Saturday, July 09, 2011

DDG-51 Restart Raises Questions

Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyerAs requirements grow for the proposed DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Flight III-class destroyers, so does concern that the U.S. Navy may try to pack too much into the ships and end up with a program that is behind schedule and over budget.

The ship was selected as the fastest and most affordable way to endow the Aegis defense system with enhanced ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability. And yet it is the need to field the radar necessary for BMD upgrades that is driving additional requirements for the DDG-51 Flight III.

The radar is the Navy’s proposed Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), which the U.S. Government Accountability Office says will cost the Navy $15.7 billion to develop and procure (DTI June, p. 28). The Navy needs the radar for simultaneous BMD and air defense at a level that is a magnitude better than what it will have with the Aegis upgrades planned through this decade.

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