| Type | Count |
| Aircraft Carriers | 12, with any future carriers being built to be in the U.S.S. Nimitz nuclear powered aircraft carrier class |
| Amphibious Lift | 7 ships now, planned expansion to 12 |
| NSSN (New Attack Submarine | 3 to 4 per year by 2011, first stariting in 1998 |
| Maritme Prepositioning Force | 13 (Dedicated to the Marine Corps) |
| DDG - Multi-mission land attack or surface attack support/AEGIS Destroyer | 18 in commission now, 20 more contracted, includes original Ticonderoga (CG47) class AEGIS cruisers. Will include Navy TACAMS for littoral attack against mobile command and control, air-defense, and cruise-missile launchers. |
| Arsenal Ship | Proposed Missile and expanded range gun systems to provide massive firepower...may field TACAMS as well. |
| Afloat Prepositioning Force | 13 MPF with Marines embarked, 14 Army War Reserve Vessels, ad 7 joint service. |
| SSN (SSN21 Seawolf Attach Subs) | To replace Los Angeles classs subs and supplement NSSNs |
| Surge Sealift | 19 Medium Speed Roll-on/Roll-off ships |
| SC21 Surface Combatant for the 21st Century | Replacement of aging Surface Combatant fleet. |
| SSN668 Los Angeles Class sub upgrades A-RCI (Acoustic Rapid COTS Insertion | Software and Hardware upgrades through 2015 |
| Mine Warfare | U.S.S. Inchon is being converetd to MCM (Mine CounterMeasures capability. |
U.S. Navy Weapons Systems (Non-Aircraft)
| Type | Description |
| TACAMS tactical Missile Systems | Provides a Quick Response Strike Capability within ten minutes of a call to fire, ideally suited to engage mobile command-and-control, air-defense, and cruise-missile launch platforms. |
| Tomahawk Baseline Improvement Program (TBIP) | Two phase program that will provide a technologically advanced, yet lower-cost missile with an initial operating capability in 2000. The Tomahawk Block IV Phase I development provides a comprehensive baseline upgrade to improve system flexibility, responsiveness, accuracy, and lethality. Essential elements of the program include upgrades to the guidance, navigation, control, and mission-computer systems of the missile, along with the associated mission-planning systems and weapons-control systems. Phase I will provide a UHF satellite communication data link to enable the missile to receive in-flight mission reassignment messages, to transfer health and status messages, and to broadcast Battle Damage Indication messages |
| Quick Reaction Combat Capability/ Ship Self-Defense System | Integrates several existing stand-alone systems whose contributions to ship defense are combined, processed, and controlled by the Ship Self-Defense System. The system provides multisensor processing, target identification, and an automated detect-control-engage capability. Shipboard sensors are fused to establish accurate, correlated, firm-track criteria as early in the detection phase as possible. Embedded electronic warfare doctrine automate soft-kill and hard-kill weapons to provide a rapid, layered defensive reaction to any detected threat. |
| The Rapid Antiship Missile Integrated Defense System (RAIDS) | Complements the antiship missile defense capabilities of the Spruance (DD 963) and Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG 7)-class combatants, is in production and has been installed in Spruance (DD 963). Installation in Oliver Hazard Perry-class ships will commence in FY97 |
| Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) | RAM is a lightweight, low-cost system that uses existing active and passive ship sensors to augment antiship missile defense firepower. RAM, a NATO-cooperative production program with Germany, is in production and has been installed in the LHA amphibious assault ships. Installations also are ongoing in LHD, LSD 41, and DD 963 class ships, and are planned in CG 47 through CG 51, CV/CVN, DDG 993 and LPD 17 classes. |
| Phalanx Upgrades | Phalanx provides a fast-reacting final defensive capability for surface ships against low-flying and steep-diving, high-speed antiship missiles. The High Order Language Computer upgrade will increase computer capacity and provide advanced fire-control processing against maneuvering targets. The Phalanx Surface Mode, which allows engagement of surface craft and low, slow aircraft, will complete testing in FY97. |
| Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare (AIEWS) | Increment 1 of AIEWS is now scheduled for fleet introduction in FY01, and Increment 2 will be fielded by FY04. As the replacement system for the AN/SLQ-32, AIEWS will use open architecture to lower investment costs and improve system effectiveness. Increment 1 provides improved human-computer interface, emitter processing, and a new receiver package. Increment 2 will include an advanced electronic attack subsystem and offboard countermeasures. |
| The Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM | A cooperative effort among 13 NATO Sea Sparrow nations to improve the ability of the Sea Sparrow missile to counter low-altitude, highly maneuverable antiship cruise missiles. The program evolves the existing RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missile with development of a new rocket motor and ordnance (warhead) upgrade. The ESSM will be installed on DDG 51, LHD, LPD 17, and CVN-class ships |
| Common Missile Development/Standard Missile | The SM-2 Block IIIB, approved for full-rate production
in FY96, incorporates a dual-mode seeker to provide the fleet improved
capability against countermeasures, and also will be deployed on Aegis
vertical launching system (VLS) cruisers and destroyers.
The SM-2 Block IV will complement earlier SM-2 medium-range variants already on board Aegis VLS cruisers and destroyers. The newest variant, the SM-2 Block IVA, will build on the Block IV missile to provide increased defense against cruise missiles and theater ballistic missiles |