Tag Archives: Maintenance

The U.S. Navy has returned the USS Frank Cable submarine tender to working status following a series of repairs and upgrades in the amount of $56 million. Vigor Industrial performed the maintenance, repair and modernization procedures under Frank Cable’s dry-dock repair availability before the ship’s departure on Dec. 21, 2017 from Portland, Oregon, the …

Sixty-two percent of the U.S. Navy’s fleet of Boeing-built F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet aircraft are not operational due to lack of funds to support maintenance and repair work on the fighter jets, Defense News reported Monday. Christopher Cavas writes 35 percent of the fighter planes are still in the waiting …

The House Armed Services Committee’s readiness and seapower subcommittees held a joint hearing Thursday to discuss the budget shortfall in the U.S. Navy’s training and maintenance funds, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. writes the hearing is part of HASC’s effort to push for a defense policy bill …

A fleet of ships including the Nimitz-class carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower that will sail to the Middle East to support airstrikes against the Islamic State group will be using second-hand parts from other operational units, Military.com reported Thursday. Hope Hodge Seck writes U.S. Navy operational commanders disclosed this at a House subcommittee …

The U.S. Army has performed a series of tests to evaluate the Very Small Aperture Terminal’s capability to access the service branch’s system designed to manage maintenance and supply operations, GCN reported Wednesday. Mark Pomerleau writes the military branch has already been using VSAT to provide Internet connection to deployed uniformed …

U.S. Air Force officials believe the military branch will not have enough airmen to maintain F-16s and F-35s if Congress keeps the A-10 Warthog program alive, Air Force Times reported Tuesday. Brian Everstine writes the military service is aiming to retire the A-10 fleet so the branch can move its …

The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Panama City Division has developed an automated inventory system that uses Radio Frequency Identification technology to tag and track mission package support containers during maintenance, embarkation and debarkation activities. The Mission Package Automated Inventory Information System inventories each container within 7.5 minutes on average, the Navy said Aug. 13. “[We] installed MPAIIS …

The U.S. Navy has reduced funding that covers training programs and maintenance services for warships stationed oversees due to budget cuts, Reuters reported Friday. David Alexander writes Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, said Friday the branch needed to minimize its crisis response capabilities following the Defense Department’s $37 …

Federal real estate maintenance costs rose by more than $1.5 billion in 2010, Federal Times reports. Federal Times obtained a General Services Administration report which said the government spent $30.7 billion to maintain 3.3 billion square feet of property in 2010. Maintenance costs went up from $29.9 billion in 2009, …