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January 18, 2018 By AMK

Navy gets savvy with contracting rules to avoid maintenance problems due to CR

The Navy is making progress on repairs it needs to make on its fleet of ships.

The service is seeing a 75 percent reduction in the days that ships are unable to be operational due to maintenance issues or repairs since 2014, said Real Adm. James Downey, deputy commander for surface warfare at the Navy Regional Maintenance Center.

“Coming through 2014, it was nearly 5,000 lost operational days, 4,900 and change,” Downey said during a Jan. 11 speech at the Surface Naval Association Conference in Arlington, Virginia. “As of November 2017, we closed out at about 1,165 lost operational days. We are still not where we need to be. The 75 percent reduction over the last three to four years is principally due to efforts put in place by my predecessors on process, on standing up various planning activities and on strategy.”

Last year, Vice Chief Naval Officer Bill Moran warned that putting off maintenance on ships is detrimental to the Navy.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsradio.com/defense/2018/01/navy-is-getting-savvy-with-contracting-rules-to-avoid-maintenance-problems-due-to-cr/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, continuing resolution, maintenance, Navy, procurement reform, streamlined acquisition process

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