When fixing Navy readiness problems, money helps but so does data

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 4:34 p.m.

b'Like the other military services, the Navy is still digging out of a readiness hole in its aviation enterprise, brought on in part by the Budget Control Act. Bigger maintenance budgets over the last few years have helped \\u2013 but money isn\\u2019t everything. The Navy\\u2019s also using data in new ways to help solve the problem. For more, Federal News Network\\u2019s Jared Serbu spoke with two people. Robert Smith leads the reliability control board data analytics team at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Patuxent River, Maryland. And Jason Thomas is the team\\u2019s principal analyst. \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'