Abstract
ABSTRACTPhased maintenance has expanded from a one class, three ship experiment to a viable maintenance strategy for the auxiliary and amphibious forces of the U.S. Navy. An evaluation of the program on the AFS class on the East Coast concludes that phased maintenance has solved the Atlantic Fleet AFS deployment problem, all PMAs have completed on time or early, IMA time and emergent voyage repair time are dramatically shorter, operational readiness has been enhanced, repair costs are declining moderately, the repair work definition process has evolved into a well‐managed, streamlined and efficient process, and the port engineer concept continues to be as critical to the success of Atlantic Fleet phased maintenance as any single program element. Critics of expansion of the program charge that too much authority is being placed in the hands of a single individual, modernization will be inadequate, contractors will gouge the Navy with cost reimbursement contracts, a separate supply system will evolve, the Navy will saturate the industrial capacity of certain ports, and competition for Navy repair work will be eliminated with multiyear cost reimbursement contracts.
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