Drift

E-2D Advanced Hawkeye

E-2D · Navy · Northrop Grumman

+41% $14.8B (2003) → $20.7B (2012)
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye: cost trajectory from $14.8B in 2003 to $20.7B in 2012, +41% growth. Explore E-2D interactively → Download 1-page brief (PDF)
Baseline
$14.8B (2003)
Current estimate
$20.7B (2012)
Cost growth
+41%
Units
75 → 75
Quantity change
0%
Unit-cost change
+41%
IOC
2011 (planned) → 2014
Schedule slip
+3 yr
Cost basis
BY
Confidence
medium · reconciled
+41% real with stable quantity (75) — a June 2009 Nunn-McCurdy critical breach; program acquisition unit cost rose $196.7M → $276.5M. Both endpoints are FY2012 constant dollars, so this is real growth, not inflation.

Documented events

Source: E-2D Apr 2012 SAR (PAUC $196.7M → $276.5M × 75 aircraft, FY2012$); 2009 Nunn-McCurdy critical breach per CRS R41293 & GAO-11-295R. Both endpoints are FY2012 constant dollars.

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