ABSTRACTThe Packaging Improvement Initiative is a Navy wide effort to optimize operational readiness, limit degradation, minimize logistic costs, and reduce repair costs and turn‐around‐times of Naval Aviation Depot Level Repairables (AVDLRs) by improving packaging, handling, storage, and transportation techniques throughout the complete logistics cycle. Using Total Quality Leadership tools with continuous customer feedback, the Naval Aviation Supply Office has developed several goal‐oriented strategies, encompassing short‐, mid‐, and long‐term improvements. Rather than merely refining the present system, the strategies listed below reflect evaluation and restructuring of packaging processes at sites with varying capabilities and missions. Principal strategies include: Packaging repairables in accordance with existing requirements, after repair at a depot, Having sufficient quantities of reusable containers in place at required locations, Ensuring use of containers for retrograde shipments, Developing improved processes to enable afloat customers to properly protect repairables, Reviewing item repair cost, turn‐around‐time, and reliability impacts, Performing engineering analyses of shipboard material flow, Development of multi‐item reusable containers, and The merging of resultant initiative savings with Defense Management Review Decisions (DMRDs) to reduce repair, warehousing, handling, and transportation costs.