Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP)

What is OFRP?

OFRP is an innovation to streamline maintenance and deployment cycles across the fleet. It’s a full realignment of maintenance, training and deployment cycles to fit in a standard 36-month rotation.

OFRP’s four functions are:

1. Rotating the force
2. Surging the force if required
3. Maintaining and modernizing the force
4. Resetting the force in stride so the fleet remains operationally ready to respond to world events

Why OFRP?

The aim of OFRP is to produce a more comprehensively manned and completely trained force that is ready to deploy on a more predictable schedule. The intent is to streamline pre-deployment inspection requirements and increase readiness.

How does it work?

Prior to OFRP, carrier strike groups disaggregated after a deployment and didn’t reintegrate until the work up cycle for the next deployment. Under OFRP, the carrier strike group remains intact throughout the integrated and sustainment phases.

All required maintenance, training, evaluations and a single eight-month deployment are scheduled across a 36-month cycle. With OFRP, the inspection and evaluation processes are streamlined, allowing the Fleet to maintain a surge capacity.

The five phases of the plan are below.

What are the benefits?

For the Navy, OFRP is making a critical difference in the ability to generate highly trained, lethal combat forces to meet the threats of today, and the threats of the future.

For Sailors and their families, OFRP provides stability and predictability to deployment schedules.

Additionally, OFRP:

• Increases overall Fleet readiness

• Maximizes forward presence

• Provides stability and predictability to deployment schedules

• Drives down costs