... Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community ... ana-lyzes the historical cost escalation for ships and compares it to other weapon systems as well as other sectors of the economy. Chapter ree explores the sources of cost escalation by dividing them ... forms the de facto inflation adjustment for weapon systems.1CHAPTER ONE The Growth of Ship CostsFormer Chief of Naval Operations’ Perspective and the Significance of the ProblemOver the past...