Drift
LPD-17 San Antonio
LPD-17 · Navy · HII Ingalls Shipbuilding
+69%
$9.0B (1996) → $15.3B (2015)
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Baseline
$9.0B (1996)
Current estimate
$15.3B (2015)
Cost growth
+69%
Units
12 → 12
Quantity change
0%
Unit-cost change
+69%
IOC
2003 (planned) → 2008
Schedule slip
+5 yr
Cost basis
BY
Confidence
high · reconciled
The cleanest constant-dollar cost-growth ship: quantity held flat at 12, so the +69% is pure unit-cost growth (per-ship nearly doubled in BY1996$). ~4.5-year IOC slip.
Source: LPD-17 Dec 2015 SAR (DTIC AD1019497), Cost Summary/Quantity/PAUC (BY1996$).
Drift — an independent project by Aous Abdo, built from public GAO, CRS and DoD sources. Cost growth has many causes; a larger number is not by itself evidence of mismanagement. How this is built · Explore the data →