The 2021 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding: Prospects and Challenges in Building a Larger Fleet

The document summarizes a presentation about prospects and challenges for increasing the size of the US Navy fleet. It discusses the Navy's shipbuilding plans which call for smaller fleet sizes than studies recommend. Building a larger fleet faces challenges including high costs, cost overruns in ship programs, difficulties designing and building new classes of ships, and stress on the industrial base. Maintaining a larger fleet over decades would require significant increases in the Navy's budget.