Improved Performance and Workload Information Could Enhance Maintenance Management for the Navy's MK-46 Torpedo

Highlights

GAO reviewed the Navy's management of its intermediate-level maintenance for the MK-46 torpedo as part of the ongoing GAO effort to evaluate military equipment maintenance programs and procedures.

Recommendations

Recommendations for Executive Action

Agency Affected	Recommendation	Status
Naval Sea Systems Command	The Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, should ensure that MK-46 maintenance managers standardize the definitions used by the maintenance activities in reporting units of torpedo maintenance work completed.	Closed – Implemented The Navy has adopted standardized definitions in the MK-46 Maintenance Technical Manual.
Naval Sea Systems Command	The Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, should ensure that MK-46 maintenance managers collect and evaluate uniform performance information from all maintenance activities to improve productivity.	Closed – Implemented For each major work increment a man-hour norm has been established and each maintenance activities production will be compared against this norm.
Naval Sea Systems Command	The Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, should ensure that MK-46 maintenance managers quantify torpedo maintenance workload and capacity based on all required tasks to ensure that the workload and capacity match is optimized considering both readiness and economic factors.	Closed – Not Implemented In February 1984, the Navy notified GAO that it had developed a computer program to accomplish this recommendation.

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