Navy’s 80 percent surge-readiness target is a ‘stretch goal,’ says CNO
“Each community [surface, submarines and aviation] will be looking at, how do they get to that 80 percent right now,” Adm. Lisa Franchetti told reporters.
By Justin Katz
on October 02, 2024 at 1:02 PM
WASHINGTON — Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti says the Navy’s new goal to achieve 80 percent surge-ready forces across the service is a “stretch goal” born out of a need to have forces ready to deploy outside the service’s normal training cycles.
Combat surge readiness is “a crisis force generation term. It’s really identifying units that can be made ready through tailored training and certification to go out and be deployed to do a mission outside of the [Optimized Fleet Response Plan],” the admiral told a group of reporters today at a roundtable hosted by the Defense Writers Group. The Optimized Fleet Response Plan, also called the OFRP, is the Navy’s formal process for managing the maintenance and deployment of units and assets.
In Franchetti’s recently published “Navigation Plan,” she sets a new goal for the service to “achieve and sustain an 80 percent combat surge ready posture” across its ships, submarines and aircraft, and has designated the vice chief of naval operations as responsible for hitting that goal.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/10/navys-80-percent-surge-readiness-target-is-a-stretch-goal-says-cno/
