February 12, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Improving Maintenance Timelines Key to On-Time Strike Group Deployments, CNO Says
SAN DIEGO – The top officer in the U.S. Navy has tasked officials with improving the service’s readiness generation plan to get ships out of modernization periods faster and to deploy on time. The Navy’s Optimized Fleet...
SAN DIEGO – The top officer in the U.S. Navy has tasked officials with improving the service’s readiness generation plan to get ships out of modernization periods faster and to deploy on time. The Navy’s Optimized Fleet Response Plan deployment scheme is a 36-month blueprint for carriers and surface ships that’s meant to generate fleet readiness for a seven-month deployment, but the cycle often ends up clocking in a…