Drift

Stryker Family

Stryker · Army · General Dynamics Land Systems

+23% $7.1B (2000) → $8.7B (2003)
Stryker Family: cost trajectory from $7.1B in 2000 to $8.7B in 2003, +23% growth. Explore Stryker interactively → Download 1-page brief (PDF)
Baseline
$7.1B (2000)
Current estimate
$8.7B (2003)
Cost growth
+23%
Units
Quantity change
Unit-cost change
IOC
2003 → 2003
Schedule slip
0 yr
Cost basis
TY
Confidence
high · reconciled
+23% (2000 → 2003, nominal) — the largest driver was military construction (upgrading maintenance facilities), not the vehicle itself. Later Double-V-Hull is a separate effort.

Source: GAO-04-925 (2004): $7.1B (2000) → $8.7B (2003), nominal; per-vehicle $3.34M → $4.13M.

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 →