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Depot Maintenance - Naval Aviation

The Navy Aircraft Depot Maintenance program conducts major repair and overhauls of naval aircraft to ensure that sufficient quantities are available for operational units. Safe, operational aircraft are key to maintaining the Navy's readiness to deploy in support of national security objectives.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The Navy consistently and effectively meets its goals of providing safe, reliable aircraft to its warfighters. In addition, the Navy is showing progress in meeting its long-term goal of having 73 percent of Naval aircraft mission-capable at any given time.
  • The Navy is implementing best practices from private industry and entering into public-private partnerships to improve the program's effectiveness. For example, the Navy has adopted "six sigma" industry standards and LEAN manufacturing principles to improve total quality control in its maintenance activities.
  • The Naval aviation depot maintenance measurements can be improved to better link program outputs to the desired outcomes.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing measurements that will better allow it to link its depot maintenance ouputs with its desired outcome. These measurements will specifically measure quality control and schedule adherence.
  • Implementing best practices from private industry to improve its efficiency and quality control.

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