When fixing Navy readiness problems, money helps. But so does data.
By Jared Serbu @jserbuWFED
December 17, 2020 7:45 am
4 min read
Like the other military services, the Navy has been working in recent years to improve the readiness of its aviation fleets, a problem that was exacerbated when cuts under the Budget Control Act almost a decade ago dealt a serious blow to aircraft availability.
Bigger maintenance budgets over the last few years have helped, but money isn’t everything. The Navy is trying to innovate its way out of the readiness problem too, and with some success, thanks to a combination of processes borrowed from the commercial airline industry, data analytics and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
The first big idea the service adopted from the commercial world was the concept of reliability control boards. In the Navy’s case, their most important function is to get the entire maintenance enterprise focused on the biggest readiness “degraders†— the parts of any given system that do the most to keep aircraft grounded.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/on-dod/2020/12/when-fixing-navy-readiness-problems-money-helps-but-so-does-data/
