Drift

DDG-1000 Zumwalt

DDG-1000 · Navy · General Dynamics Bath Iron Works · truncated

−39% $31.5B (2005) → $19.1B (2015)
DDG-1000 Zumwalt: cost trajectory from $31.5B in 2005 to $19.1B in 2015, −39% growth. Explore DDG-1000 interactively → Download 1-page brief (PDF)
Baseline
$31.5B (2005)
Current estimate
$19.1B (2015)
Cost growth
−39%
Units
10 → 3
Quantity change
−70%
Unit-cost change
+102%
IOC
2014 (planned) → 2019
Schedule slip
+5 yr
Cost basis
BY
Confidence
high · reconciled
The flagship truncation: the formal SAR baseline was 10 ships; the buy collapsed to 3, so total constant-$ cost FELL ($31.5B → $19.1B BY2005$) while per-ship cost exploded past ~$7.5B. (The oft-cited "32" was the pre-Milestone-B DD-21 vision, not the baseline.)

Source: DDG-1000 Dec 2015 SAR (DTIC AD1019140), Cost Summary & Quantity (BY2005$). Nunn-McCurdy breach 2010.

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