A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on the development of the Navy's new fast-attack submarine identifies aspects of the program's development that highlight the risk of repeating the mistakes of several recent shipbuilding programs. (For more on prospective challenges to the submarine's development, see 'Designing SSN(X) Will Require Modern Digital Modeling.') According to the 30 August report by CRS Navy expert Ronald O'Rourke (no relation), the Navy would like SSN(X) to be an 'apex predator.

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