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Accession Number:
AD1023237
Title:
Extending Depot Length and Intervals for DDG 51 Class Ships: Examining the 72 Month Operational Cycle
Corporate Author:
RAND National Defense Research Institute Santa Monica United States
Report Date:
2016-01-01
Abstract:
Maintaining the fleet of surface combatants that the United States has built is challenging. The United States spends approximately 5 billion annually on ship depot maintenance. In addition to being costly, ensuring that the U.S. naval fleet operates at peak efficiency requires meticulous planning and execution of deployment schedules, crew training, and maintenance availabilities. The careful employment scheduling of ship deployments, short-term or long-term maintenance periods, and crew training ensures maximum readiness, efficiency, and expected service life of the ship. Combatant commanders demand for surface combatant presence is high, and as the fleet has decreased in size, deployment lengths have increased to meet this demand.
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Pages:
0122
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;
File Size:
1.12MB
