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SAN DIEGO \u2014 When Capt. Gilbert Clark commanded Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The Sullivans in 2016 and 2017, he got his ship out of a repair period early and under budget \u2014 a very welcome anomaly for the U.S. Navy, which more often than not sees its ships rack up weeks and months of delays during maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While no two availabilities are the same, Clark has a good idea of what best practices led him and his team to be successful \u2014 so the Navy has put him in charge of all the San Diego-based surface ships in maintenance and basic-phase training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy in December stood up a network of Surface Readiness Groups<\/a>, or SURFGRUs, to put proven leaders in a position to focus solely on getting ships through maintenance and basic training on time, before turning them over to operational squadrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark leads a SURFGRU Southwest staff of 90 in San Diego, initially overseeing 17 surface ships. That will eventually expand to about 200 personnel overseeing 36 ships in maintenance and basic training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Norfolk, Virginia, Capt. Bryan Carmichael \u2014 who led amphibious assault ship Bataan through a complicated on-time, on-budget overhaul when he served as commanding officer from 2019 to 2021 \u2014 leads the SURFGRU Mid Atlantic that has 10 ships today and will increase to a comparable size as its West Coast counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy has or will have smaller SURFGRUs in: Everett, Washington; Mayport, Florida; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Yokosuka, Japan; Rota, Spain; and Manama, Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surface navy has worked for years to dig out of a ship maintenance backlog<\/a> and get ships out of the yards on time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can keep doing what we\u2019re doing, and we keep telling ourselves we\u2019re going to try harder, but it\u2019s probably not going to work,\u201d Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, the commander of Naval Surface Forces, told Defense News. \u201cWe\u2019re going to need a new approach, and we\u2019re going to need a different way of measuring it and holding ourselves accountable. This is that way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, Commander, Naval Surface Force, is piped aboard USS Decatur (DDG 73) during his visit to the Pearl Harbor Waterfront at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Feb. 8, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Gavin Arnoldhendershot\/US Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McLane said the Navy knows best practices for ship maintenance, but it\u2019s impossible for a first-time ship captain to know and implement every lesson learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s where the SURFGRUs come in, he said, to serve as coaches and mentors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He offered an example of a returning carrier strike group: the destroyer squadron commodore might have a number of ships going into maintenance on a staggered schedule, and everything could be perfectly planned from the start and all the material on hand when the first ship arrives at the repair yard. But, that first ship may on Day 1 have an assessment of its intakes and uptakes; if the yard realizes the ducts are corroded and they\u2019ll have to replace them, for which the material is not on hand, that first ship may on Day 1 be looking at a 45-day delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the second ship comes in, the exact same thing might happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technically, McLane said, the intakes and uptakes assessment cannot be done until the ship is in the yard and all the insulation can be peeled off. But an experienced leader knows there are ways to do spot checks beforehand to look for signs of corrosion. But if the ship captain, the destroyer squadron commodore and the project manager at Naval Sea Systems Command are all leading their first maintenance availability, they would likely make this common but costly mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his example, the destroyer squadron commodore might realize this by the third ship, after putting the first two ships behind schedule. But \u201cI don\u2019t want to spot them two ships all the time,\u201d McLane said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the SURFGRU commodore and their senior staff will know these types of tricks, McLane said, and be in a position to mentor ship captains and squadron commodores about what to watch for and how to stay on schedule. Those officers, then, will succeed in their maintenance availability and also take those best practices on to future jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new approach<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Clark and Carmichael told Defense News they\u2019re still in standup mode, trying to bring on more staff and establish relationships across the waterfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark said today he\u2019s looking for base hits, to use a baseball analogy: can his team find a part that a ship was struggling to get that was holding up its maintenance; can they find the right sailors to temporarily fill a manning gap that\u2019s preventing a ship from getting underway for training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, he said, the home run and the proof the SURFGRU idea is working will be fewer maintenance delay days, more ships completing maintenance on-time and on-budget, more ships on the waterfront being classified as mission capable<\/a>, and ships receiving higher scores from the Board of Inspection and Survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26), right, and Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18), left, undergo maintenance work at the BAE Systems shipyard in San Diego on Feb. 12, 2024. (Megan Eckstein\/staff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To get the word out, Clark said he\u2019s made some \u201cwinning hearts and minds\u201d office calls across the waterfront, chiefly with commodores and strike group commanders. He also plans to meet with general managers of the nearby private ship repair yards who maintain surface ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success in this endeavor \u201cis driven by those relationships, but at the same time we\u2019re looking to build those processes \u2026 that will just live past the personalities that are in the seat now, because we\u2019re learning how to do things better, more effective,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmichael noted the work that\u2019s going into another facet of the new job: the SURFGRUs will also serve as the area commander under the Navy\u2019s new command and control structure for in-port fires and other emergencies. This change came about after the investigation into the 2020 Bonhomme Richard fire<\/a> showed confusion about and discrepancies in the previous roles and responsibilities during a fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmichael and his staff have been working with Norfolk-area leaders from the base, the Navy region, the local repair yards, and even local, state and federal emergency response offices. After some drills and certification events, the SURFGRUs will formally take on this role in mid-April, McLane said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD 23) undergoes a maintenance availability at the General Dynamics’ NASSCO shipyard in San Diego on Feb. 12, 2024. (Megan Eckstein\/staff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A third role the SURFGRUs will play, in addition to the area commander and ushering ships in their homeport through maintenance and training, will be supporting deployed strike groups who may be having manning or maintenance challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than ask a carrier strike group commander who\u2019s operating in the Middle East to divert attention to a nagging maintenance challenge on their cruiser, the network of surface readiness groups will eventually be able to take over and help troubleshoot or otherwise support these deployed surface ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Coast ships would be supported by the San Diego or Everett groups while in local waters, then by Pearl Harbor during transit and Yokosuka once in the Western Pacific, McLane said. East Coast ships similarly would be aided by the Norfolk or Mayport groups, and then by the Rota or Bahrain groups once in theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This role \u2014 supporting ships during the advanced training, deployment and sustainment phases of the force-generation cycle \u2014 is a key difference between the surface readiness groups of today and the readiness squadrons of the Cold War that were stood down in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of people say, \u2018well this is just the readiness squadrons coming back\u2019 \u2014 well, yes, but it\u2019s more,\u201d Clark said. \u201cIt\u2019s the entire [force-generation cycle]. It\u2019s global. There\u2019s always going to be a SURFGRU commander ready to jump on man, train, equip issues for a ship, no matter where they are in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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