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Ship and Submarine Maintenance Improvement Needed, Navy Vice Chief Says

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Ship and Submarine Maintenance Improvement Needed, Navy Vice Chief Says
The U.S. Navy re-certified the dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash. in 2023, and the USS Connecticut (SSN 22) docked there for its Extended Docking Selected Restricted Availability on July 12, 2023 (U.S. Navy Photo)

While the readiness of U.S. Navy aircraft is largely up to snuff, surface ship and submarine maintenance are continuing hurdles for the service, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James Kilby said on Wednesday. "The aviation community did not get a lot of hits from readiness," he told a Surface Navy Association conference in Arlington, Va. "In fact, we were heralded in many cases because of the work that the aviation community has done to generate more ready aircraft. We…

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