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ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 U.S. Fleet Forces Command is building a set of digital tools meant to increase ship readiness by helping leaders better direct resources and allowing individual sailors to tackle more complex repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adm. Daryl Caudle, who leads the command, said he wants to alter how the individual and the force approach ship maintenance and repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn a large scale, it\u2019s going to empower these repair operation centers, maintenance operation centers, with a [common operating picture] that allows us to actually better see the material condition on the ships in real time,\u201d he told Defense News at the annual Surface Navy Association conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this new approach, sailors will continuously upload data about their ships as well as routine and emergency work \u2014 whereas previously the fleet got much of its information about ship conditions from casualty reports filed when something broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This data will feed into a dashboard for Caudle and his staff. While it won\u2019t reduce the maintenance workload, it does let him \u201cprioritize, target [and] understand what ship needs something. It gains my ability to have situational awareness so that I can help make the decisions of where to apply resources more effectively. So it overall improves fleet material readiness; that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is of particular importance to Caudle in light of conflicts in the Middle East and the potential for clashes elsewhere that could force the U.S. Navy to scramble forces forward. Caudle told reporters the service has about 100 ships deployed at any given time. He also said about 100 are in depot maintenance, and therefore unavailable. To him, this means the fleet must focus on the readiness of the remaining 100 or so that could deploy for a fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surface fleet aims to have 75 mission-capable ships<\/a> \u2014 meaning they\u2019re ready for operations on short notice. A key component of this effort is reducing maintenance delays so ships can more quickly depart repair yards and get back to the waterfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caudle said Fleet Forces Command is pursuing other efforts focused on the readiness of these potential \u201ccontingency response force\u201d ships, including a push to get crews trained faster during the basic training phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adm. Daryl Caudle, who leads U.S. Fleet Forces Command, speaks to sailors over a ship’s announcing system during a visit to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush on June 8, 2022. (MCSN Felix Castillo Reyes\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Caudle also said his ongoing Fleet Maintenance Optimization effort will affect individual sailors, noting that when he joined the Navy, the submarine fleet had 16 submarine tenders that supported uniformed sailors conducting the bulk of submarine maintenance and repair work. The surface fleet was similarly maintained and repaired by sailors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, civilians at naval shipyards and regional maintenance centers do much more of the work, with relatively few uniformed sailors who are proficient at maintenance, repair and troubleshooting, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the fleet is to keep itself at a higher state of readiness \u2014 being combat capable and able to receive repairs at sea \u2014 individual sailors need to learn more maintenance actions. To help move this along, Fleet Forces Command is creating digital packages that include drawings, instructions and videos that sailors can access from tablets. Much like a person who has never worked on cars can still change wiper blades with the help of online tutorials, Caudle wants sailors to be able to perform maintenance work they haven\u2019t traditionally done in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caudle said this will \u201cfundamentally improve\u201d sailors\u2019 skills, \u201cwhich will improve the readiness of the ship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt will make people more likely to do [maintenance work] because they understand how to do it \u2014 all the way into high-level maintenance, corrective maintenance actions [on] bearings, electrical, component repairs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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