Navy Maintenance

Ship Maintenance Strategies Need Better Assessments Gao ID: NSIAD-88-187 June 14, 1988

GAO reviewed the Navy's revised ship maintenance strategies.

GAO found that the Navy: (1) scheduled fewer ship overhauls and performed shorter and more frequent depot-level repairs; (2) incurred $5.6 million in ship maintenance and modernization costs in fiscal year 1987; (3) lacked essential management features in its ship management program, such as evaluation criteria, a management information system, or documentation procedures for determining the strategies' effectiveness; and (4) responded primarily to unfunded maintenance requirements and budget cuts in initiating changes and did not support them with a detailed engineering analysis to determine the optimal frequency and level of repair. GAO believes that the Navy cannot reasonably predict the strategies' impact on its ships' material readiness, operational availability, and maintenance costs.

Recommendations

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