Can Navy warships follow aviators’ path to 80%-deployable rates?

A decade ago, three out of four of the Navy’s fighter and electronic warfare jets weren’t fit for combat, prompting the service to set a goal for 80-percent mission-capable rates. They got there in a year. Now the service is hoping to make similar magic happen again—this time with its surface and submarine fleets.To pull it off, the Navy is looking at some of the lessons-from its aviation readiness crisis—like cutting down the amount of time a platform spends in scheduled