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Impacts of the fleet response plan on surface combatant maintenance / Roland J. Yardley [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Destroyers (Warships)--United States--Maintenance and repair--Case studies.
- Destroyers (Warships).
- Warships--United States--Maintenance and repair.
- Warships.
- United States. Navy--Operational readiness.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 44 pages) : color illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2006.
- Summary:
- To achieve a more responsive and more readily deployable fleet of surface combatants, the Navy adopted the Fleet Response Plan (FRP) in 2003 to replace its traditional ship maintenance and readiness cycle. The goal of the FRP is to have non-deployed ships achieve a high level of readiness earlier and to maintain high readiness longer so that they can deploy on short notice. However, a challenge of implementing the FRP is establishing the processes and procedures, as well as a ready industrial base, to facilitate maintenance planning and execution to meet the now unpredictable FRP surge requirements and maintenance demands. By concentrating specifically on the DDG-51 class of destroyers, the authors of this report look at the effects the FRP has had thus far and determine whether maintenance resources are meeting maintenance demands and whether related industry resources have been coordinated effectively. Overall, the authors determine that the initiative appears to have promising effects but that more time will be needed to assess maintenance supply and demand apart from the increase of funding tied to military operations post-September 11, 2001/
- Contents:
- Introduction Understanding the Different Aspects of Maintenance Managing Maintenance to Accommodate the Fleet Response Plan Quantifying the Impact of the Fleet Response Plan Concluding Remarks Appendix: Certifications
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