Navy ship maintenance, action needed to maximize new contracting strategy's potential benefits : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Contributor:

Mackin, Michele

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--Procurement--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Navy--Operational readiness.

United States. Navy.

Ships--United States--Maintenance and repair.

Ships.

Public contracts--United States--Management--Evaluation.

Public contracts.

Armed Forces--Operational readiness.

Armed Forces--Procurement--Evaluation.

Public contracts--Management--Evaluation.

Ships--Maintenance and repair.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 52 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Action needed to maximize new contracting strategy's potential benefits

GAO-17-54, Navy ship maintenance

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2016.

Summary:

The Navy has over 150 non-nuclear surface ships that it repairs, maintains, and modernizes using privately owned shipyards. The Navy concluded in 2010 that readiness of the surface ship force was below acceptable levels. This, in addition to the concerns of leadership about cost and schedule growth, led to a revised readiness strategy and, in 2015, introduction of a new contracting strategy for ship repair, referred to as MAC-MO. House Report 114-102 accompanying the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act included a provision for GAO to review the Navy's implementation of the MAC-MO strategy. This report assesses (1) the potential benefits of the MAC-MO contracting strategy, (2) process changes the Navy has made to address any challenges and to capitalize on anticipated benefits, and (3) how the strategy will potentially affect the Navy's ship repair industrial base. GAO analyzed the Navy's acquisition planning documentation, lessons learned, and contracts. GAO recommends the Navy assign responsibility to a single entity to systematically assess implementation of the MAC-MO strategy.

Contents:

Background.

Market reearch and piloting helped inform roll-out of MAC-MO strategy, which offers potential benefits compared to MSMO.

Additional action needed to address potential challenges to MAC-MO strategy will increase competition opportunities, but it is too soon to assess other effects on the ship repair industrial base.

Conclusions.

Recommendation for executive action.

Agency comments.

Notes:

"November 2016."

"Accessible Version."

"GAO-17-54."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed December 10, 2016).

OCLC:

965752625