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‘We Absolutely Need to Change,’ Says New Navy Maintenance Head

— Not quite two months on the job, a submariner turned head of the Navy's vast maintenance operation promised his office would create a more nimble organization that would better balance risk to speed ships back to the fleet. Todd Weeks told a crowd of ship maintainers the service wants to reduce the barriers to get ships out of maintenance on time.

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— Not quite two months on the job, a submariner turned head of the Navy's vast maintenance operation promised his office would create a more nimble organization that would better balance risk to speed ships...

Todd Weeks told a crowd of ship maintainers the service wants to reduce the barriers to get ships out of maintenance on time.

We just aren't," Weeks said Thursday while speaking at the American Society of Naval Engineers Fleet

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— Not quite two months on the job, a submariner turned head of the Navy's vast maintenance operation promised his office would create a more nimble organization that would better balance risk to speed ships back to the fleet. Todd Weeks told a crowd of ship maintainers the service wants to reduce the barriers to get ships out of maintenance on time. We just aren't," Weeks said Thursday while speaking at the American Society of Naval Engineers Fleet

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Program Acquisition Executive for Industrial Operations Rear Adm. "We absolutely need to change, and we're not getting it done.

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