IN AND OUT ON TIME

摘要

The initiatives are focused on getting ships and submarines through their maintenance periods on time and back to the fleet to meet the requirements of combatant commanders. As the fleet — run hard by decades of war or crisis — grows in numbers, the challenge becomes greater. In an Aug. 23 release, James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, announced that the Department of the Navy was establishing a new deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for sustainment (DASN-S) to develop, monitor, and implement policy and guidance throughout the Navy who "will enable us to better plan, program, budget and execute the Navy's sustainment mission."