The US Coast Guard's Deepwater Force

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The research was conducted in the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center supported by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the unified commands, and the defense agencies under Contract DASW01-01-C-0004. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The U.S. Coast Guard’s deepwater force modernization plan : can it be accelerated? will it meet changing security needs? / John Birkler ... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. “MG-114.” ISBN 0-8330-3515-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. United States. Coast Guard—Procurement—Evaluation. 2. United States. Coast Guard. I. Birkler, J. L., 1944–. VG53.U238 2004 363.28'6'0687—dc22 2003026514 The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. R® is a registered trademark. © Copyright 2004 RAND Corporation All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND. Published 2004 by the RAND Corporation 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 1200 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202-5050 201 North Craig Street, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-1516 RAND URL: http://www.rand.org/ To order RAND documents or to obtain additional information, contact Distribution Services: Telephone: (310) 451-7002; Fax: (310) 451-6915; Email: [email protected] Preface In November 2002, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) com- missioned the RAND Corporation to assess its Deepwater program, an effort the USCG is undertaking to slowly, but steadily, replace or modernize nearly 100 aging cutters and more than 200 aircraft over the next 20 years. Known more formally as the Integrated Deepwater System program, this endeavor aims to equip the USCG with state- of-the-art cutters, aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned air vehicles. All of its activities will be orchestrated through an integrated Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) system and an Integrated Logistics Sys- tem (ILS). The program, the largest and most complex acquisition effort in USCG history, was originally designed to maintain the status quo at the USCG as it pursues its traditional missions as part of its roles of maritime security, maritime safety, protection of natural resources, maritime mobility, and national defense.1 RAND’s research is intended to help USCG decisionmakers evaluate whether the Deepwater program—which was conceived and put in motion before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and before the USCG’s subsequent transfer into the newly created Department of Homeland Security—remains valid for the new and _____________ 1 As defined in U.S. Coast Guard: America’s Maritime Guardian (U.S. Coast Guard [USCG], 2002c, pp. 62–63), roles are “the enduring purposes for which the Coast Guard is established and organized.” Missions are “the mandated services the Coast Guard performs in pursuit of its fundamental roles” and “tasks or operations assigned to an individual or unit.” Note that the five USCG roles are also the USCG’s five strategic performance goals (see Appendix A). iii iv The U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Force Modernization Plan evolving responsibilities and missions that the USCG has been asked to shoulder. The events of September 11 gave new urgency to accelerating asset acquisition (Biesecker, 2004). RAND was asked to evaluate whether the current Deepwater acquisition plan will provide the USCG with an adequate number and array of cutters, aircraft, and other assets to meet changing operational demands.2 RAND’s assessment involved two parallel evaluations: • An exploration of issues connected with speeding up, compressing, or otherwise accelerating the pace at which the USCG can acquire surface and air assets that it will operate in the deepwater environment, defined as territory 50 or more nautical miles from shore. As part of this examination, RAND was asked to look at the implications for force structure, cost, performance, and indus- trial base of commissioning all replacement assets, decommis- sioning all outmoded or old-technology (so-called legacy) assets, and completing all modernization tasks earlier than the year 2022. • A determination of whether the original Deepwater plan would provide the USCG with a force structure to meet mission demands. RAND was asked to evaluate the force structure that the original Deepwater acquisition plan would provide and define the boundaries of a force structure that would fulfill the USCG’s demands of traditional missions and emerging responsibilities. This report should be of special interest both to the USCG and to uniformed and civilian decisionmakers involved in homeland security and homeland defense. It was prepared for the Program Execu- tive Officer, Integrated Deepwater System, USCG. This research was conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD), a division of the RAND Corporation. NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified _____________ 2 Our analysis addresses only those assets needed to operate in the deepwater environment; it does not address assets needed to satisfy demands outside the deepwater environment. Preface v Commands, the defense agencies, the Department of the Navy, the U.S. intelligence community, allied foreign governments, and foundations. For more information on RAND’s Acquisition and Technology Policy Center, contact the Director, Gene Gritton. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]; by phone at 310-393-0411, extension 6933; or by mail at RAND Corporation, 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138. More information about RAND Corporation is available at www.rand.org. 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RAND routinely reviews and refines its quality assurance process and also conducts periodic external and internal reviews of the quality of its body of work. For additional details regarding the RAND quality assurance process, visit http://www.rand.org/ standards/. vii Contents Preface ...................................................................... iii Figures ..................................................................... xiii Tables..................................................................... xvii Summary .................................................................

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