{"id":4282,"date":"2018-10-09T22:31:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2018-10-09T22:31:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T22:31:59","slug":"mattis-orders-fighter-jet-readiness-to-jump-to-80-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/09\/mattis-orders-fighter-jet-readiness-to-jump-to-80-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"MATTIS ORDERS FIGHTER JET READINESS TO JUMP TO 80% IN ONE YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-545\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C-560x329.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C-260x153.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/F-15C-160x94.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defense News<\/p>\n<p>By: Aaron Mehta<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has ordered the Air Force and Navy to get mission capable rates for four key tactical aircraft up above 80 percent by the end of next September, a daunting challenge given the current readiness rates of America\u2019s fighter fleets.<\/p>\n<p>In a memo issued Sept. 17 to the secretaries of the Army, Air Force and Navy, along with acquisition head Ellen Lord and acting Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness Stephanie Barna, Mattis acknowledges \u201cbudget constraints and shortfalls in aviation squadrons across the force\u201d have led to \u201csystemic underperformance, overcapitalization and unrealized capacity\u201d in the fighter fleets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor change to be effective and efficient, we must focus on meeting our most critical priorities first,\u201d Mattis wrote in the memo, obtained exclusively by Defense News.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, that means achieving a minimum of 80 percent mission capability rates for the Pentagon\u2019s F-35, F-22, F-16 and F-18 inventories \u2014 a number well above the mission capability rates those aircraft now achieve. In addition, Mattis wants to see reduced operating and maintenance costs on the platforms, starting in FY19.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2018\/10\/09\/mattis-orders-fighter-jet-readiness-to-jump-to-80-percent-in-one-year\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Exclusive-%2010-9&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Breaking%20News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defense News By: Aaron Mehta Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has ordered the Air Force and Navy to get mission capable rates for four key tactical aircraft up above 80 percent by the end of next September, a daunting challenge given the current readiness rates of America\u2019s fighter fleets. In a memo issued Sept.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/09\/mattis-orders-fighter-jet-readiness-to-jump-to-80-in-one-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MATTIS ORDERS FIGHTER JET READINESS TO JUMP TO 80% IN ONE YEAR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}