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Two Navy Trackers Disagree On Super Hornet Availability Rates

Two Navy Trackers Disagree On Super Hornet Availability Rates
Lt. Scott "Gameday" Gallagher lands an F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to "Blue Blasters" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34, for the 1,000th trap on USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) flight deck during flight operations on March 19, 2020 in the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report found that while the Navy Department uses two separate databases to track aircraft availability the newer one is better at predicting actual flying hours. The Navy uses both the older Decision Knowledge Programming for Logistics Analysis and Technical Evaluation system (DECKPLATE) and Aviation Maintenance Supply Readiness Report system (AMSRR). DECKPLATE is an older system while AMSRR was introduced in the mid-2010s. In the report released July 17, CBO analyzed monthly aircraft-level data from…

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