Mission Statement
Provides centralized lifecycle maintenance engineering, class maintenance and modernization planning, and manages maintenance strategies to ensure all surface ships have an articulated, technically rigorous, and engineered maintenance oversight process to achieve Expected Service Life (ESL).
Program Summary
SURFMEPP is an echelon three command that reports to the Director of Surface Maintenance, Modernization and Sustainment, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), SEA21. The command comprises approximately 280 personnel and is led by a military Commanding Officer, supported by civil service personnel and contractor technical support staff. SURFMEPP is headquartered at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, VA and to support mission requirements maintains Waterfront Offices (WFOs) in the following locations: Norfolk, VA; Mayport, FL; San Diego, CA; Everett, WA; Pearl Harbor, HI; Rota, Spain; Manama, Bahrain; as well as Yokosuka and Sasebo, Japan.
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SURFMEPP Global Footprint
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SURFMEPP emerged from the Surface Ship Life Cycle Management (SSLCM) Activity created by NAVSEA in 2009. The SSLCM Activity marked a significant transformation in the planning, budgeting, and execution of surface ship maintenance and modernization. It aimed to bring discipline and an engineered approach to a previously unstructured process.
On November 8, 2010, the Navy established SURFMEPP and tasked the command to provide centralized surface ship life cycle maintenance engineering, class maintenance and modernization planning, and management of coordinated maintenance strategies for all surface ship classes. This tasking is the underpinning of SURFMEPP’s mission and is aligned with and responsive to National, Fleet, Surface Type Commander and NAVSEA needs and priorities.
SURFMEPP provides essential services to the maintenance community, including the development and issuance of Technical Foundation Papers (TFPs) that establish notional maintenance man-day requirements, by ship class, over a ship's expected service life. SURFMEPP also manages hull-specific Ship Sheets, which allocate man-days to each Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) availability. Additionally, SURFMEPP manages the Class Maintenance Plan, issues Baseline Availability Work Packages for CNO availabilities, and provides tools for capturing and analyzing maintenance history, execution, and cost data. Consequently, SURFMEPP ensures that the maintenance requirements pushed to the Fleet are technically accurate, tracked, managed, and adjudicated on a level that is visible and transparent in every way.
SURFMEPP’s approach ensures that all surface ships now have an articulated, technically rigorous and engineered maintenance oversight process that supports each ship reaching Expected Service Life (ESL). Accurate assessments of each ship allow maintenance to be planned in advance and properly integrated with modernization. The benefits of this approach are early planning of complex availabilities, reduction of new work and avoidance of incremental discovery.
Moreover, SURFMEPP fosters accountability and forces responsibility within the community by advancing maintenance strategy development and issue resolution for the Surface Navy Enterprise. The command also works diligently to incorporate stakeholder and maintenance community feedback with a goal of continuous product improvement.
SURFMEPP… Achieving Expected Service Life…One Ship at a Time.
Updated July 2024