I would say it is wrong to characterize the Army and Navy as neglectful of Pearl Harbors vulnerability. If anything they were acutely aware of it and attempting to improve defenses as fast as possible, but the defense budget and priorities were on building new ships, planes, and formations, and attention squarely focused on Europe and the U-Boat threat.

But just in the months before December 7th several squadrons of aircraft of various types made it out, along with sets of Radar, and AA batteries. However not just Hawaii needed protection. Fortifying the forward posts of Midway, and Wake were seen as key to providing early warning of IJN fleet movements.

Those half measures for readiness, along with the last minute warnings however faced some problems. The first being the fear of sabotage from the huge Japanese local population. The second was a large amount of in born racism against the IJN in the US. They didnt think their cloth and wood planes would be dangerous, or that they had sufficient seamanship to take the circuitous route through the Northern Pacific which would have required difficult underway refueling, which the USN was just starting to get good at. And because it was thought any IJN fleet would be spotted first sabotage then became the primary concern, along with the conservative waste and accident conscious practices of a peacetime military, and the poor timing of the entire Battle Force being in port at the same time.

As to your actual question I would point out 2 events. Both were part of the annual Fleet Problems. Each summer the USN would get most of their big ships together and war game scenarios and as the carriers joined the fleet they were included.

During two different Fleet Problems, XIV in 1933 and XIX in 1938, the two Lexington class carriers Lexington and Saratoga on both occasions were succesful in launching dawn air raids on Pearl Harbor. And in several others launched surprise attacks on San Francisco, and the Panama Canal. The success of the carriers in the Problems was a driving factor in the growth and support of the aviation community such as it was, and in the construction of the 3 Yorktowns and the Wasp to add more hulls and the designing of the Essex class before the war to supplement numbers for the coming global conflict.