Kitchener: Navy has more work to do to limit maintenance delays

By Aidan Quigley / October 18, 2021 at 4:06 PM
The Navy is not reducing days of maintenance delays fast enough and must take action to improve its maintenance efforts, according to Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the commander of Naval Surface Forces. Kitchener, speaking Monday at the American Society of Naval Engineers’ Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium, said while the Navy is slowly cutting days of maintenance delay for CNO availabilities, that progress has stalled this year. “We are not improving quickly enough,” he said. “We have made no progress...

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