Title: The Royal Navy's new-generation Type 45 destroyer :
Authors: Birkler, J. L.,; Rand Corporation.; RAND Europe.; International Security and Defense Policy Center; Great Britain.
Date: 2002
Publisher: RAND Europe,
Physical description: xxv, 108 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC class: V
Abstract: In 2001, RAND helped the United Kingdom_s Ministry of Defence (MOD) evaluate different acquisition strategies that it might use to acquire the new-generation Type 45 destroyer. RAND_s analyses helped in determining whether the MOD should have the Type 45 built by one company or two, whether it should compete the 12 ships in the class or directly allocate work to specific shipbuilders, and whether companies producing the Type 45 should construct the destroyer in its entirety in one shipyard or from blocks produced in several shipyards.
Contents: Introduction -- The shipbuilding industrial base and the MOD shipbuilding programme -- Identifying and analysing MOD's acquisition choices -- Analysis of procurement alternatives -- The approved Type 45 programme -- Issues requiring further study -- Appendix A. Sensitivity analysis -- Appendix B. Long-term implications of a lack of competition -- Appendix C. Building ships in blocks at multiple sites: implications for the Type 45 programme.
Notes: "Research ... undertaken for the MOD's Chief of Defence Procurement jointly by RAND Europe and the International Security and Defense Policy Center of RAND's National Security Research Division (NSRD)"--P. iv. "MR-1486-MOD"--P. [4] of cover. Prepared for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense.