Drift

EA-18G Growler

EA-18G · Navy · Boeing

+86% $8.4B (2003) → $15.7B (2015)
EA-18G Growler: cost trajectory from $8.4B in 2003 to $15.7B in 2015, +86% growth. Explore EA-18G interactively → Download 1-page brief (PDF)
Baseline
$8.4B (2003)
Current estimate
$15.7B (2015)
Cost growth
+86%
Units
90 → 160
Quantity change
+78%
Unit-cost change
+5%
IOC
2009 (planned) → 2009
Schedule slip
0 yr
Cost basis
TY
Confidence
high · reconciled
The Growler’s +86% bought 70 MORE jets, not more expensive ones: program unit cost moved ~5% in then-year terms over twelve years, and IOC hit in 2009 — the year it was baselined. The cleanest quantity-growth case in the portfolio; production ended FY2016 at 160 aircraft.

Source: EA-18G SAR Dec 2015 (16-F-0402 DOC 51), SAR Baseline History p.26 — then-year $M: Nov 2003 development estimate $8,421.6M / 90 aircraft → Jul 2007 production estimate $8,636.4M / 84 → current $15,672.4M / 160; PAUC $93.6M → $98.0M TY (+4.7%). BY2004$ pair pp.12-13: $7,530.8M / 84 → $13,186.9M / 160. No Nunn-McCurdy breaches, either baseline; cost variance decomposition attributes the growth to quantity (+$4.2B BY2004$).

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