An Approach to Monitoring Readiness Data

During our studies of naval readiness issues, we have identified some persistent questions about monitoring readiness. In this paper, we try to answer three of those questions: What should be the goal or baseline for readiness in the Navy? Is current readiness moving toward traditional hollowness, away from hollowness, or in a different direction altogether? How can we compress many indicators of readiness into one or a few indicators? The approaches we used data on readiness and personnel quality for active surface combatants and then replicate the analysis for fighter and attack aircraft squadrons.