Grim Future For Repairing Navy Subs And Carriers On Time
With the Pentagon budget not expected to grow any time soon, the Navy is facing a major crunch in getting its carriers and attack subs back to sea.
By Paul McLeary on August 21, 2020 at 3:31 PM
WASHINGTON: A grim 75 percent of the Navy’s carrier and submarine fleets are unable to make it through scheduled repairs on time, averaging 113 days late for aircraft carriers and 225 days late for submarines.
The findings by the Government Accountability Office shed new light on a problem the Navy has not been able to get its hands around, and led the service to implement an emergency call up of 1,629 Reservists in June to pitch in on repair work at the service’s four shipyards.
The new report, which charted shipyard issues between 2015 and 2019, noted that despite the Navy boosting its shipyard workforce by 3,800 people and spending $2.8 billion to address shipyard performance during that time period, ships continue to languish in port.
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