Twin reports find US Navy struggling with fleet management

[rangerrebew]

Features
February 21, 2023
Twin reports find US Navy struggling with fleet management

An official US body has found that sustainability challenges exist for much of the US Navy’s fleet, while submarine ambitions are at risk.
 
A pair of reports conducted by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) have laid bare the challenges that the US Navy (USN) faces in its surface ship sustainability, as well as in the recapitalisation of the undersea arm of the country’s nuclear defence triad.

Published in late January this year, the reports into the USN found that from FY2011-2021, the ship classes reviewed faced “persistent and worsening challenges” including a decrease in the number of hours a ship is available for operations or training.

These challenges included an increase in the number of working ship parts removed and used elsewhere due to parts shortages; an increase in casualty reports—i.e., reports of events that impair a ship’s ability to do its job; and an increase in maintenance delays.

The GAO stated that it had made “dozens of recommendations” to address the issues, but the USN had “yet to fully implement them all”.

https://www.naval-technology.com/features/twin-reports-find-us-navy-struggling-with-fleet-management/

[rangerrebew]

On the brighter side, trannie awareness, CRT, wokeness, and pronoun use knowledge are absolutely flourishing.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Navy always needs to be building newer ships to replace aging and retiring ships.  Every ship has an estimated service life.  The broken Congressional budget process is probably significantly contributing to a lack of sustained capital investment.