Peters: Navy will submit aviation depot modernization plan to Congress next year

By Lee Hudson / June 14, 2018 at 1:09 PM
The Navy’s aviation community is lagging behind the shipbuilding enterprise in determining how to modernize its depots and is slated to submit a plan to Congress next year, according to a senior official. Vice Adm. Dean Peters, Naval Air Systems Command chief, told reporters today following a House Armed Services readiness subcommittee hearing that he directed his team last week to start the groundwork to begin a modernization plan. In April, Vice Adm. William Merz, deputy chief of naval operations...

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