The lead ship in the Navy's new ballistic missile submarine fleet will cost $13.3 billion, the Congressional Budget Office revealed in a report providing new details about the cost estimate the Pentagon adopted last month while launching the Columbia-class program into engineering and manufacturing development. The $13.3 billion lead-ship end cost -- expressed in constant fiscal year 2017 dollars -- includes $7.5 billion in construction costs, and $5.1 billion in non-recurring engineering costs paid from the Navy's procurement accounts, along...
