The Navy has struggled to adequately perform submarine intermediate maintenance periods and record and analyze data associated with those periods, according to a Government Accountability Office report released today. GAO found the Navy completed 46% -- 191 of 414 -- of submarine intermediate maintenance periods late from fiscal years 2015 through 2020 for a total of 2,525 days of maintenance delay. Intermediate maintenance periods are times when a ship is pier-side and able to get underway within 96 hours. The...
