Ship Maintenance: The Navy's Fleet Modernization Program

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the Department of the Navy's Fleet Modernization Program (FMP), the Navy's primary vehicle for updating ships' offensive, defensive, and operating systems.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected	Recommendation	Status
Department of the Navy	To improve FMP oversight and add the needed program priority, the Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the program's management information system provides timely information to managers to support planning, programming, budgeting, executing, and evaluating the program.	Closed – Implemented The Navy is implementing the Ship Alteration Budget Reporting and Evaluation System that will be utilized to augment and update the Fleet Modernization Program Management Information System.
Department of the Navy	To improve FMP oversight and add the needed program priority, the Secretary of the Navy should ensure that annual briefings on the results of the FMP are provided to the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Board, as required by Navy instruction.	Closed – Implemented The Navy is implementing the Ship Alteration Budget Reporting and Evaluation System that will be utilized to augment and update the Fleet Modernization Program Management Information System.

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National Defense

Defense operationsEquipment maintenanceMaintenance (upkeep)Management information systemsMilitary vesselsNaval procurementProgram evaluationProgram managementMilitary forcesShips