{"id":193308,"date":"2008-12-27T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/27\/u-s-navy-orders-8-new-virginia-boats\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T07:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T12:55:00","slug":"u-s-navy-orders-8-new-virginia-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/27\/u-s-navy-orders-8-new-virginia-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Orders 8 New Virginia Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has just <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3875058&amp;c=AME&amp;s=SEA\">ordered 8 new Virginias in a fixed price multiyear deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The price seems to be OK: $14 billion, or about $1.75 billion a boat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering though how much of this is military need or, &#8220;industrial base preservation&#8221;, and how much is trying to get stuff locked in before the change in administrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has just ordered 8 new Virginias in a fixed price multiyear deal. The price seems to be OK: $14 billion, or about $1.75 billion a boat. I&#8217;m wondering though how much of this is military need or, &#8220;industrial base preservation&#8221;, and how much is trying to get stuff locked in before the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}