Moore: Contracting strategies driving late DDG-51 maintenance deliveries

By Justin Katz / February 19, 2019 at 1:33 PM
SAN DIEGO -- The Navy delivered only 30 percent of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers out of maintenance on time in recent years, and the admiral overseeing that maintenance believes the service's acquisition strategy is to blame. "We don't have the capacity to do the work, and that's primarily driven by the way we are acquiring repair work," Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, Naval Sea Systems Command chief, told reporters here last week at the AFCEA West conference. "I'm trying to get out...

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