Navy Outlines Planning, Execution Failures in Cruiser Modernization Program

[rangerrebew]

Navy Outlines Planning, Execution Failures in Cruiser Modernization Program
By: Mallory Shelbourne
July 8, 2021 6:39 PM

 

The Navy’s push to retire seven guided-missile cruisers stems from management and planning in its original modernization program that caused exorbitant cost growth, according to service officials.

Navy officials have repeatedly cited cost as a reason for the proposed decommissionings, arguing that the service could put the money toward other modernization priorities instead of sustaining the aging platforms.

“The cruisers right now and the modernization are running 175 to 200 percent above estimated costs, hundreds of days delay. These ships were intended to have a 30-year service life, we’re out to 35,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told the House Armed Services Committee last month.

Reasons for the cost increases range from contractor performance to planning problems plaguing the modernization effort, a spokesperson for Naval Sea Systems Command told USNI News this week.

https://news.usni.org/2021/07/08/navy-outlines-planning-execution-failures-in-cruiser-modernization-program

[rangerrebew]

Not another oversight disaster for the Navy????

[rustynail]

Just another outcome of lack of diversity and structural racism.

[rangerrebew]

Just another outcome of lack of diversity and structural racism.

Do you mean the structure of Navy ships is racist now?

[rustynail]

Do you mean the structure of Navy ships is racist now?

Designed and built by white men?

[mountaineer]

Jul 13, 2021 6:46 PM EST
US Navy in shambles as leaders prioritize wokeness over combat readiness: report
"[W]here someone puts their time shows what their priorities are. And we've got so many messages about X, Y, Z appreciation month, or sexual assault prevention, or you name it. We don't even have close to that same level of emphasis on actual warfighting."
Mia Cathell
The Post Millennial

A scathing report commissioned by congressional members has found that the United States Navy is in disarray and focusing more on diversity than warfighting.

The official findings, considered a nonpartisan exercise of congressional oversight, discovered that the Navy's surface warfare forces have systemic training and leadership issues, including an intense focus on diversity that eclipses basic readiness skills. The authors of the review conducted long-form interviews with 77 active-duty, retired or detached officers, and enlisted personnel about insights into the culture of the United States Navy following a series of high-profile and damaging operational failures in the Navy's surface warfare community.

A staggering 94 percent of the subjects believed the recent Naval disasters were part of a broader, internal problem. "I guarantee you every unit in the Navy is up to speed on their diversity training. I'm sorry that I can't say the same of their ship handling training," said one retired senior enlisted leader. Other interviewed participants also voiced concern that the Navy spends more time on diversity training than on developing warfighting capacity and key operational skills. ...

Full story at the Post Millennial

Also reported by NY Post

[rangerrebew]

The diversity training will come in handy when the Navy, and America, become part of China.

[mountaineer]

The diversity training will come in handy when the Navy, and America, become part of China.

We may as well start teaching the recruits a Chinese language in boot camp.