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03396 - [A2723934]
The Navy's Intermediate Ship Maintenance Program Can Be
Improad. lCD-77-U12; B-133170. September 23, 1977. 59 pp. + 6
appendices (26 pp,,.
Report to the Congress; by Llmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Personnel Management and Compeisation (300);
military Preparedness Plans: Mobilization-Oriented
Industrial maintenance Base (802) ;Federal Procurement of
Goods and Services (1900).
Contact: Logistics and Communications Div.
Budget Function: National Defense-. Department of Defense -
Military (except procurement & contracts) (051).
Organization Concerned: Department of the Navy; Department of
refense.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services;
Senate Committee cn Armed Services; Congress.
The Navy has been _mphasizing intermediate level
maintenance on its ships as a way to improve operational
readiness and increase the time between major overhauls.
Findings/Conclusions: The Navy's intermediate maintenance
program has evolved without sufficient consideration of such
basic issues as: defining and quantifying work requirements;
iaentifying ways to assess and improve productivity; analyzing
operating costs and possible economic altcrnatives; and
evaluating the impact of changing maintenance concepts.
Recommendations: The Secretary of the Navy should tse scientific
engineering analyses to define maintenance work that should be
performed at each maintenance level during peacetime and wartime
and quantify total requirements; assess the requirements of new
maintenance concepts on intermediate level capabilities;
reassess the need for new mobile intermoCiate maintenance
activities and deactivate those not essential for wartime
emergencies; reassess the need for new shore activities in light
of peace and war requirements; reduce redundant maintenance
functions and work centers; and improve productivity.
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