Page 6: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (July 15, 1986)

U.S. NAVY SHIP MAINTENANCE

AND MODERNIZATION

By James R. McCaul

International Maritime Associates, Inc.

Each quarter IMA prepares an update on developments in the

Navy ship maintenance and mod- ernization market. This article is an excerpt from the most recent up- date prepared exclusively for publi- cation only in Maritime Reporter.

FY 1987 Budget Request

The President's budget requests $6.4 billion for Navy ship mainte- nance and modernization. Details are provided in Exhibit 1.

Composition of FY 1987

Overhaul Program

The Navy proposes to fund 37 ship overhauls in FY 1987, the same number as budgeted for this year.

The 37 overhauls include: • One aircraft carrier • Five ballistic missile subma- rines

Photo: The Navy's newest Aegis guided mis- sile cruiser Bunker Hill (CG 52) on sea trials and the recently overhauled guided missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 46).

Ingalls Shipbuilding photo. • Eight attack submarines • Fifteen surface combatants • Three amphibious ships • Four auxiliaries, and • One mine countermeasure ship

In addition, 129 selected re- stricted availabilities and 48 phased maintenance availabilities are pro- posed for FY 1987. These are signif- icant increases over current SRA/

PMA activity.

Work Split

Seventeen of the 37 planned over- hauls are currently earmarked for commercial shipyards. The remain- ing 20 overhauls are to be performed in naval yards.

The number of ship overhauls to be set aside for public/private ship- yard competition will affect the fi- nal work split. No figure is currently available for the number of ships to be completed between commercial and naval shipyards in FY 1987.

However, a Navy directive in Janu- ary specified that the five scheduled

SSBN overhauls are to be competed next year.

Navy Reserve Fleet

Maintenance

The Navy plans to spend $153.5 million on reserve ship maintenance in FY 1987. This will fund four over- hauls and 16 SRA/PMAs. These fig- ures are provided in Exhibit 2.

MSC Ship Repair and

Alteration

Estimated FY 1986 spending by

Exhibit 1—Expenditures For Ship Maintenance and Alteration FY 1985-1987 (in millions of $)

FY 1985 FY 1986 FY 1987 (revised) (budgeted) (proposed)

Scheduled Overhauls $2,393.4 $2,348.8 $2,312.7

Number of Overhauls 55 37 37

Restricted Availabilites 1,330.7 1,258.7 1,565.1

Number of SRA's 103 104 129

Number of PMA's 17 30 48

Ship Alterations 1,345.2 1,598.2 1,527.7

Intermediate Maintenance 326.9 385.2 380.0

Technical Support 120.7 142.7 147.6

Fleet Outfitting 300.5 350.0 393.6

Inactivations 28.8 — —

Berthing/Messing 41.4 44.5 40.9

Total $5,887.6 $6,128.1 $6,367.6

Source: Department of the Navy 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News