The Royal Australian Air Force’s first MQ-4C Triton. Northrop Grumman Photo
The Royal Australian Air Force will reactivate a squadron for the three MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles it will start operating in 2024, Australian Defense officials announced Friday.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles and Chief of the RAAF Air Marshal Robert Chipman announced the reformation of the squadron in a joint press conference at the Avalon Airshow held in Geelong,...
The following is the December 2022 Government Accountability Office report, Military Readiness: Actions Needed to Further Implement Predictive Maintenance on Weapon Systems.
From the report
The Department of Defense (DOD) issued an interim predictive maintenance
policy in 2002, but the military services made limited progress implementing it
until recently. In 2007, DOD instructed the military services to designate a single
focal point for predictive maintenance, provide funding, and begin...
https://news.usni.org/2022/12/09/gao-report-on-predictive-maintenance-on-weapons-system
USS Jefferson City (SSN-759) departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Dec. 8, 2021, as it heads to Naval Station Guam for a homeport shift. US Navy Photo
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Less than a third of the Navy’s attack submarines have made it out of maintenance on time in the last decade as demand for the boats remain high, the head of Naval Sea Systems Command said on Wednesday.
“We’re really struggling to get submarines out on time. Over the last ten years, 20 to 30 percent [came] out on time,” said...
Cmdr. Jared Severson was relieved from his position as the commander of Submarine Training Facility in San Diego. US Navy Photo
The Navy relieved the commanding officer of the submarine training facility in San Diego.
Capt. Steve Antcliff, commanding officer of Submarine Learning Center, relieved Cmdr. Jared Severson from his command Thursday.
The Navy relieved Severson due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead his command, according to a news release from the service. Severson, whose...
https://news.usni.org/2022/04/29/submarine-training-facility-san-diego-commander-relieved
In case you’ve just arrived from Mars, the Australian government has announced it will acquire, with the assistance of the United States and United Kingdom, a fleet of ..
The US Navy Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Providence has completed its 16th and final deployment and returned to its homeport at Naval Submarine ..
Los Angeles-class submarine USS Toledo (SSN-769) enters Norfolk Naval Shipyard on Jan. 21, 2021. US Navy Photo
The Navy still has major challenges in digging out of its longstanding submarine maintenance backlog even after growing the workforce at the public shipyards, according to a Congressional Budget Office report.
In a report about submarine maintenance released on Thursday, the CBO found that the Navy still faces a backlog after farming out some maintenance on its attack submarines to...
The portside anchor of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is lowered into a dry dock for maintenance. GHWB is currently in Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Va. US Navy Photo
The Navy is evaluating how it can speed up the timeline for its initiative to renovate aging public shipyards amid concern from lawmakers that the current 20-year timeframe is too long.
As the service continues to work its way out of a years-long maintenance backlog and the nuclear-powered fleet is set to grow in the...
Poster for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) 2016. US Navy Photo
A long-standing independent report on the health of the U.S. Navy is set to end this year unless Congress acts, USNI News has learned.
The Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), founded by Battle of Mobile winner Adm. David Farragut in 1868 and cemented into law by Congress in 1882, is in charge of assessing ship readiness. The inspection body this month released its latest report, which could be...
Rear Adm. Chris Engdahl, President of the Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), and then Capt. Kyle Higgins, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), converse in the hangar bay aboard Ike in 2019. US Navy Photo
Navy ship readiness has trended down over the past three years, with many ship systems on surface ships and submarines, in particular, showing lower readiness scores in Fiscal Year 2020 compared to the recent average, according to the Board of...