USS Milius (DDG-69) sails alongside U.S., Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force and Royal Australian Navy ships as seen from USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) in the Philippine Sea on Nov. 20, 2022. US Navy Photo
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. Fleet Forces is rethinking how to deploy carrier strike groups by changing how it would train and maintain its guided-missile destroyers, commander Adm. Daryl Caudle said on Wednesday.
The study is looking at the efficiencies Fleet Forces could find by deploying...
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...
Terrance Wells, from San Diego, ties straps for a containment project on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on Oct. 26, 2020. US Navy Photo
Support is growing within the House Armed Services Committee to accelerate Navy efforts to improve ship repair capacity at both private and public shipyards, and for funding that either through ongoing talks about a massive federal infrastructure bill or other means, lawmakers made clear during a Thursday...
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 following is the Oct. 29, 2020 Government Accountability Office report, Navy Maintenace: Navy Report Did Not Fully Address Causes of Delays or Results-Oriented Elements.
From the report
The Navy’s July 2020 report identified two key causes and several contributing factors regarding maintenance delays for aircraft carriers, surface ships, and submarines, but did not identify other causes. For public shipyards, the Navy’s report identified the key cause of maintenance delays as insufficient...
https://news.usni.org/2020/11/04/gao-report-on-navy-maintenance-delays
BAE Systems has received $170.7 million in contracts from the U.S. Navy to perform simultaneous maintenance and repair on two Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) guided-missile destroyers in its San Diego shipyard. Under the awarded contracts, the shipyard will tandem dry-dock the USS Stethem (DDG 63) and USS Decatur (DDG 73) in October. The synchronized two-ship docking will be a first for the company’s newest dry-dock in San Diego. The contracts include options that, if exercised, would bring the...
Breakaway ferry contacted bottom at Trois Rivieres, Canada, during berth shift operations after her tow line broke, reports Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?Ro-pax ferry F.-A.-GAUTHIER went adrift on Oct 8, in Trois Rivieres harbor, St. Lawrence river, Canada, during berth shift operation, after her mooring line or tow line broke.
Ship under maintenanceAs the ship’s engines were inoperative, she was undergoing scheduled maintenance repairs since Sep 25.
Tugs took controlTwo tugs took the...
Shipowners are often aggravated about ship maintenance issues and with new fuel regulation in place from early 2020, the challenge is greater. However, modern technologies like artificial intelligence and cognitive analytics can greatly enhance this making ship maintenance easier.
Keeping this in mind, the expert panel of Riviera’s Extending intelligent monitoring of onboard machinery webinar highlighted how investing in intelligent systems to understand the huge amount of hidden data in a ship...
https://mfame.guru/answer-how-cognitive-analytics-ai-helps-in-ship-maintenance/
