Risk Based Decision Making for the Deferment of U.S. Navy Submarine Maintenance
Abstract
Maintenance of United States Navy submarines is a complex set of operations comprised of scheduling, budgeting, and executing a continuous stream of work across multiple vessels in the same maintenance facility year after year. Local personnel are involved in the details of the day today operations and focus deeply on today and tomorrow, with little bandwidth to focus on larger, systemic issues with impacts far removed from today. The addition of fluctuating annual funding levels, a younger workforce, and the pressures to meet national defense requirements add complexity and compound the pressure to mortgage tomorrow for today by deferring work without regards to its later impact. Recently, the maintenance community has begun to invest time and resources in these larger, systemic issues. This thesis investigates the impacts of deferred maintenance actions on the timely completion of submarine maintenance periods by analyzing data from 50 refits executed over a decade at Trident Refit Facility in Kings Bay, Georgia.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1080531
Entities
People
- Jon M. Washko
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology