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Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released “Analysis of the FY 2018 Defense Budget and Trends in Defense Spending,” by Katherine Blakeley.
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Repair for USS Fitzgerald After Collision Will Cost More Than Fix to USS Cole After Terror Attack
Bryan Clark, naval analyst with Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said, based on photos of the damage published by the Navy, the costs to repair the ship would easily top the $250 million of the Cole repairs, and could even double that figure.
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Navy Hosts Guided-Missile Frigate Industry Day; Analysts Worried About Early FFG(X) Requirements
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments senior fellow Bryan Clark said during the hearing that he worried the Navy had begun this process with too many details left undecided, and said that the Navy should be able to better determine what it wants without first requiring industry feedback.
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Readiness Bridge to 2019
“It helps address the current readiness shortfall in the Fleet,” said Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budget Assessments.
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Naval Analysts Weigh in on New Frigate Concept
“I don’t think it does move us in the right direction”, Clark said. “It opens up the aperture too much in terms of what that future frigate could be.
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As Trump focuses on size of Navy fleet, experts raise questions
Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told Inside Defense that when he was working on the Navy staff in the early 2010s, there was talk of reactivating the John F. Kennedy (CV-67). The estimates of getting the aircraft carrier back into service were about $1 billion.