Program Summary
More than seventy percent of the Future Fleet is already in-service today. From Surface Combatants and Amphibious Ships to Mine Warfare and Patrol Craft, the Navy is working to ensure each non-nuclear surface ship class will reach its expected service life to support the CNO’s plan to field a minimum of 313 ships to meet operational requirements globally.
The NAVSEA Deputy Commander, Surface Warfare (SEA 21) and Team Ships (the combined organizations of SEA 21 and PEO Ships) were established in 2007 to align all surface ship fleet introduction, lifecycle, and modernization under a single NAVSEA code. Since that time, other changes have taken place in the larger Surface Navy organizational structure including the Surface Warfare Enterprise. The SEA 21 chartered function is to be the single point of contact and primary technical interface with the Fleet for all matters pertaining to Surface Ship in-service support.
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The organization is committed to improving surface ship readiness to ensure surface ships are ready for tasking by increasing operational availability and reducing Total Ownership Costs (TOC) by adhering to disciplined standards of life-cycle management for each surface ship class. These efforts align life-cycle management requirements and the acquisition commands to the waterfront and the Navy’s Operational Forces, balancing the need for a long-term life-cycle management perspective with the immediate challenges of timely issue resolution.
To meet these increasing responsibilities, a reorganization was conducted in 2009 to establish a Deputy for Readiness with the dual responsibility of addressing near-term material readiness challenges and managing the long-term lifecycle management efforts of the Surface Navy. The organization under SEA 21A includes the alignment of Fleet Readiness, Logistics, Technical, Maintenance, Planning Yard, and oversight of the Multi-Ship Multi-Option contracts. Additional efforts also include oversight of the Surface Single Training Integrator (SSTI) in addition to waterfront assets dedicated to Fleet Readiness. .
To better ensure non-nuclear surface ships meet readiness, service life, and total ownership cost goals, NAVSEA, in close partnership with the Fleet, launched a series longer-term Surface Ship Readiness Initiatives (SSRI) to increase waterfront support and improve maintenance and modernization efforts across surface ship classes to keep pace with mission requirements. NAVSEA is also leading a series of Task Forces to address immediate challenges to maintain warfighting readiness, focused on developing holistic readiness improvement recommendations for each of the critical mission systems and non-nuclear surface ship classes. Task Forces tackle immediate readiness challenges, leveraging a repeatable framework and disciplined analysis to effectively identify and address deficiencies..
Together, these efforts demonstrate a reinvigorated commitment to fleet readiness and a holistic approach to ensure surface ships are ready for tasking.
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