The next is the July 13, 2022, Congressional Analysis Service In Focus report, Navy Subsequent-Technology Logistics Ship (NGLS) Program.
From the report
Introduction
The Navy’s Subsequent-Technology Logistics Ship (NGLS) program envisages procuring new medium-sized at-sea resupply ships for the Navy. The Navy’s proposed FY2023 price range requests $3.0 million in analysis and growth funding for this system. The Navy’s five-year (FY2023-FY2027) shipbuilding plan applications the procurement of the primary NGLS in FY2026 at a value of $150.0 million and the second in FY2027 at a value of $156.0 million.
Terminology
The Navy’s Fight Logistics Power (CLF) ships, additionally referred to as underway replenishment (UNREP) ships, are logistics ships that resupply the Navy’s combatant ships (e.g., plane carriers, floor combatants, and amphibious ships) at sea, in order that the combatant ships can proceed working with out having to return to port.
The Navy’s present CLF ships embody oilers (TAOs), dry cargo and ammunition ships (TAKEs), and quick fight help ships (TAOEs). In these designations, T means the ship is operated by the Army Sealift Command (MSC) with a largely civilian crew, A method auxiliary ship, O means oiler, Ok means cargo, and E means ammunition (i.e., explosives). (In some paperwork, TAO, TAKE, and so on. are typed as T-AO, T-AKE, and so on.) These CLF ships are massive auxiliary ships.
Anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities purpose to create a defended space round a rustic that in time of battle can be a “no-go zone” for opposing navy forces. Operational ideas are normal approaches for the best way to use navy forces for reaching sure goals. Fleet structure refers back to the sorts and mixture of ships that make up a navy.
New Fleet Structure and Operational Ideas
To extra successfully counter the bettering A2/AD capabilities of China specifically, the Navy desires to start shifting to a brand new, extra distributed fleet structure that’s to incorporate a diminished proportion of bigger ships and an elevated proportion of smaller ships. This extra distributed fleet structure is meant to help a brand new Navy and Marine Corps operational idea for countering adversary A2/AD forces, referred to as Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), and an related new Marine Corps operational idea referred to as Expeditionary Superior Base Operations (EABO).
DMO goals at avoiding a state of affairs during which an adversary might defeat U.S. naval forces by concentrating its assaults on a comparatively small variety of massive, high-value U.S. Navy ships. Below EABO, comparatively small Marine Corps items armed with anti-ship cruise missiles and different weapons would hop on and off islands within the Western Pacific to conduct “shoot-and-scoot” operations towards adversary ships.
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