The Navy is implementing a new maintenance strategy intended to improve Arleigh Burke-class destroyer readiness rates through shorter and more frequent availabilities, according to the director of surface ship maintenance, modernization and sustainment. This new “DDG-24-six” strategy will see the Navy conduct brief availabilities running no more than 150 days in between its lengthier selected restricted availabilities (SRAs) scheduled to occur once every six years, Rear Adm. Andrew Biehn said last week during an American Society of Naval Engineers event...
