THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
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A man of vision with the highest integrity and moral fiber, Admiral Brooks has focused his career on caring for his people as he charted a long-term course for them to follow. He is an engineer of the highest caliber and an exceptional leader who surrounds himself with competent individuals empowered to excel. Having served an unprecedented total of nearly seven consecutive years in the Navy’s two Fleet Maintenance Officer positions, Admiral Brooks has been the driving force for positive ship maintenance changes in our Navy.
His notable successes include the establishment of the Navy’s seven Regional Maintenance Centers (RMCs). By consolidating thirty three previously separate activities into seven RMCs, the Navy now has a more effective waterfront maintenance organization providing customers with a single common point of entry for all ship maintenance activity in each of the Navy’s major home ports. In addition, Admiral Brooks led the streamlining of Surface Ship and Carrier maintenance to the Organization/Depot Level mode of operation. This change resulted in a minimum $255 million savings across the Future Year Defense Plan and contributed over 2,200 billets to the CNO downsizing target while retaining full capability to accomplish required work. Finally, Admiral Brooks drove the development of the Maintenance Figure of Merit program, the Navy’s first objective metric set that will measure the real-time material health of the Fleet and provide maintenance and operations-linked decision making capability. This program has been institutionalized as the sole maintenance input into the Equipment Pillar for the Defense Readiness Reporting System – Navy and is being considered for potential DoD-wide roll-out.
Admiral Brooks’ legacy will live on, not only in his accomplishments and institutionalized programs, but also in the lives and careers he has touched and shaped. He is the consummate fleet maintenance engineer and is indeed most highly deserving of recognition by the American Society of Naval Engineers as the 2007 recipient of the Frank C. Jones Award.
