Navy Maintenance: Selected Private and Public Shipyard Manday Rates' Cost Elements

摘要

The report examines the manday rates of Navy ship maintenance work performed in selected private and public shipyards. The main concern was the Navy's reasons for overhauling West Coast-based aircraft carriers at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The objective of the extensive overhauls, called the aircraft carrier service life extension program (SLEP), is to extend the expected service life of selected aircraft carriers from 30 years to 45 years. Questions are raised about whether (1) the Navy's public yard manday rates include all overhead costs and (2) a comparison of manday rates, which include these overhead costs, might show the overhaul of carriers on the West Coast to be cost effective.