Navy Using New Working Groups to Problem Solve Sustainment Issues
By: Mallory Shelbourne
September 21, 2020 5:05 PM
As it works to improve sustainment efforts across its platforms and infrastructure, the Navy has formed new working groups to problem solve the issues contributing to its maintenance and sustainment woes.
During a virtual conference last week hosted by the American Society of Naval Engineers, the Navy’s newly installed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Sustainment Sean Burke said the service has created ten different teams with more than 100 individuals as part of its Sustainment System Working Group initiative to tackle the Navy’s issues with its supply chain and moving ships through maintenance at the yards.
“Supply chain and spares and cannibalizations is a major problem,†Burke said. “Shipyard throughput, as I mentioned, is a major problem – how do we fix that? How do we incentivize the private shipyards to fix things?â€
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