Readiness

Is the Navy prepared today for the challenges of tomorrow? These bloggers will tell give you the scoop.

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21 January 2021

Letter from Mrs. Gilday on COVID Resources

Dear Navy Family Members and Spouses,Over the last month, I have had the incredible privilege to talk to spouses and witness work that our women and men in uniform do every day across the Fleet. In speaking with several different groups in the Pacific Northwest, Monterey, Naples, Bahrain and Rota, I...
07 January 2020

Firsthand Effects of the Naval Sustainment System-Aviation

Across the board, we saw substantial improvements in workspace layouts, turnaround times for maintenance, backorders of high-priority requisitions that are missing from the supply shelf and planning for the future...
30 December 2019

At NAWS China Lake, Scientists and Sailors Are Building the Future Fleet

By Adm. Robert Burke, Vice Chief of Naval OperationsOn a recent swing to the West Coast, I visited Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake, home of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), for the first time.This remote location has been a premiere spot for technology and an...
12 November 2019

Naval Aviation Focuses on Maintaining Readiness

Editor’s note: As the Program Executive Officer, Tactical Aircraft Programs, Rear Adm. Shane Gahagan serves as the lead for the engineering reform pillar of the Naval Sustainment System-Aviation. In his column below, he summarizes some of the process improvements that are designed to sustain...
26 September 2019

How NSS Reforms Helped Us Fix Our Squadrons

By: Cmdr. Kelly Borden, VFA-122 Maintenance OfficerAchieving 343 mission-capable Super Hornets was a great accomplishment. It was no small feat; it was a herculean effort we should all be proud of. Here at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, our focus is now on sustaining these numbers...
12 August 2019

Naval Aviation On Its Way to Achieve Readiness Goal

By Adm. Robert Burke Vice Chief of Naval Operations It has been less than a year since the Navy set out to restore strike fighter readiness rates to 80 percent, and the one-year deadline of Oct. 1 is approaching. For the aviation community, the endeavor to increase the mission-capable rate of...
15 July 2019

Innovation Boosts Fleet Readiness

In the new age of warfare, Navy has been using modern technologies to solve problems demonstrating the potential to increase fleet readiness even further and strengthen our Navy for the future.Whether it’s additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, unmanned systems or mobile...
21 May 2019

We Are Naval Aviation

What do an aviator, a maintenance officer, a chemist, an engineer and a Navy spouse all have in common? They are the men and women behind naval aviation, and each of them is vital to the success of our mission. Every member of the Naval Aviation workforce has a critical role in developing and...
06 May 2019

Resourcing a Ready Surface Force

Since the establishment of the Readiness Reform and Oversight Council (RROC), the Navy made significant progress in its reform efforts to deliver a more ready and more capable Surface Force. With the support of Congress, the Navy invested in meaningful Surface Force reform, and remains committed to...
04 March 2019

Special Report: Surface Force Readiness Reforms

After two tragic, fatal collisions and other near misses at sea in 2017, the Navy's mandate was clear: Make our Navy a safer and more combat-effective force that places the safety, readiness and training of our people first. Through the Readiness Reform and Oversight Committee (RROC), we assessed...

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