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Courtesy of Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, VAMOSC and Northrup Grumman
Platform Comparisons
In taking the top-down approach, we compared the Sea TENTACLE to both current platforms such as the FFG-7 and DDG-51 and proposed and envisioned platforms such as DD(X), LCS and FFG(X).  From this comparison, it was determined that the FFG(X) that was envisioned in the CBO report of March 2003 entitled “Transforming the Navy’s Surface Combatant Force” stacked up closest characteristic wise to the Sea TENTACLE.

The characteristics of the ships that we used to produce the top-level cost estimation are depicted here with the DD(X) providing the upper bound to any discussion of cost and the FFG-7 providing a lower bound.