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Kitchener: Meeting Ready Ship Goals Surface Navy’s ‘North Star’

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Kitchener: Meeting Ready Ship Goals Surface Navy’s ‘North Star’
An MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to the “Black Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, hovers near Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Tulsa (LCS 16), while the LCS sails alongside Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the South China Sea last Sept. 7 (U.S. Navy Photo)

The U.S. Navy is using data analytics to improve surface ship readiness and set targets for the numbers of such ships needed to meet contingencies, a top service official said on Jan. 11. “This analytic approach allowed us to update our methodology for measuring ship readiness,” Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the commander of Naval Surface Forces, told the Surface Navy Association's conference in Arlington, Va. “We automated the tracking process to improve our prioritization and allocation of resources across the…

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