Talk:USNS Howard O. Lorenzen

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Dual Freq in topic Operations and sustainment

Operations and sustainment

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"Operations and sustainment"[1] basically refers to who's budget pays for the operation and yearly upkeep. For whatever reason, the USN's budget included the line item for the Cobra Judy Replacement, which funded the R&D and construction of Howard O. Lorenzen up to the USAF acceptance / handover in August 2014. At least that's how I read that sentence. It probably should have been a USAF line item all along, but the way the defense budget works, things get a bit complicated. --Dual Freq (talk) 01:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

"These funds were used to establish a program to replace the aging COBRA JUDY radar, a sea-borne system that contributes to verifying the START Treaty and characterizing foreign ballistic missile systems, as well as a Program Office, and enable the United States to acquire a replacement several months early, saving about a year in development time and hedging against a gap in collection coverage. Cobra Judy Replacement was transferred from the Air Force to the Navy, per an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Milestone A Acquisition Decision Memorandum dated 6 August 2002." [2] --Dual Freq (talk) 01:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC)Reply