MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, VA -- The Navy intends to start grouping multiple vessels onto singular ship maintenance availability solicitations in an effort to tackle expected future capacity problems, according to the service acquisition executive. "Ideally, we would contract for all the ship repairs for the next six months in a block as opposed to our more traditional [method of contracting] each ship repair independently," Navy acquisition executive Hondo Geurts told reporters yesterday at the Modern Day Marine exposition. Geurts...
