Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center Commander Join Leaders at the 2026 Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium
Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) Commander, Capt. Dan Hemminger, joined fellow Navy and Coast Guard leaders in the 2026 Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium (FMMS) panel discussion on deferred maintenance, Sept. 24, in Virginia Beach, Va.
The discussion titled, “The True Cost of Deferring Ship Maintenance," took a deep dive into root causes of ship maintenance deferrals and how they impact the readiness and health of the fleet.
Ship maintenance deferrals are never preferred yet sometimes necessary and involve a deliberate, risk-based assessment that informs a decision to postpone scheduled repairs, inspections or upkeep on a vessel to a future date. Navy leaders take many factors into account when making the critical decision to defer maintenance.
“Deferral is a decision based upon risk and different people own that risk,” said Hemminger. “It’s never a simple "push-to-right" scheduling adjustment. We must carefully weigh operational risks, programmatic or budget risks, and the impact on the industrial base resulting from decreased planned workload.”
“Maintenance and repair and all the work we do as a foundry is not a simple industrial task [...] it is a warfighting imperative. Our goal is to do the right amount of maintenance at the right time so that we do everything within our power to support readiness.”
The American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) hosts the FMMS annually, bringing together the Naval ship maintenance, modernization and ship repair community to collaborate and innovate ideas to strengthen the Nation’s maritime maintenance foundation.
This year’s event, themed “From Foundry to Fleet: Delivering Readiness and Capability,” featured a keynote address by Portfolio Acquisition Executive Industrial Operations Rear Adm. Todd Weeks who expressed the need to reduce the barriers to get ships out of maintenance on time.
“We’ve got to be better than we are, and we’ve got to focus on what is it going to take to deliver the ship, the submarine, the aircraft carrier out of maintenance,” said Weeks.
Thousands of leaders and industry professionals attended this year’s FMMS. The symposium included numerous think tanks, industry speakers, informative panels, technical paper presentations, and professional development courses as well as maritime industry exhibitors. MARMC, a field activity under Program Acquisition Executive Industrial Operations, provides surface ship maintenance, management and oversight of private sector maintenance and fleet technical assistance to ships in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.
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