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GAO-04-724R 1 (2004-06-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqgl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 June 18, 2004 The Honorable Jerry Lewis Chairman Subcommittee on Defense Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Defense Logistics: GAO's Observations on Maintenance Aspects of the Navy's Fleet Response Plan Dear Mr. Chairman: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Operation Iraqi Freedom have prompted major changes in the employment of naval forces around the globe. These two events resulted in an ultimate surging to deploy seven carrier strike groups and the largest amphibious task force assembled in decades. According to the Navy, at the time of the September 11 attacks and in preparation for Operation Iraqi Freedom, only a small number of ships at peak readiness were forward deployed. However, most of the Navy's ships were not available for use because they were in early stages of their training cycles. This prompted the Navy, in March 2003, to develop a concept to enhance its deployment readiness strategy. The Navy's Fleet Response Plan, implemented in May 2003, evolved from a concept to institutionalize an enhanced surge capability. The Fleet Response Plan modifies the Navy's pre-2001 rotational deployment policy, replacing 6-month routine deployments with more flexible deployment options that provide the capability to deploy as many as eight carrier strike groups when and where needed. Although we focused our review of the maintenance impacts of the Fleet Response Plan on aircraft carriers, the plan applies to all ship classes except submarines. The plan changes the manner in which the Navy maintains, trains, staffs, and deploys its ships to allow a greater availability of the fleet to meet Homeland Defense and Defense Guidance requirements. As it relates to maintenance, the plan relies on increased continuous maintenance during pier dockings. Primarily, the plan alters the Navy's prior 6-month rotational deployment and presence policy to the 'Navy officials informed us that maintenance processes do not change under the Fleet Response Plan for the submarine force because of the nature and criticality of submarine systems. GAO-04-724R Defense Logistics

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