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Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS)

Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS)Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) was established in 1996 by the CNO to improve battlegroup organic maintenance capability and material self-sufficiency. Commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Center (CNRMC) trains Sailors through the NAMTS program by utilizing I-Level hands-on maintenance production to “forge maintenance warriors,” who are competent and confident in their ability to own, maintain and operate their shipboard equipment.

CNRMC, the Regional Maintenance Centers (RMC), Naval Shipyards (NSY), Intermediate Maintenance Facilities (IMF), Trident Refit Facility (TRF) Bangor and designated afloat activities are collaborating on specific repair and maintenance “value streams” to form the Navy’s largest “SEA” school:

• Maintenance Competency Development
• Material Readiness Support
• Shop Production

While assigned to a RMC, IMF, NNSY, TRF or designated afloat command, NAMTS trains Sailors in 26 different Journeymen Level Repair and Maintenance Technician training programs through hands-on shop production work accomplishment. NAMTS graduates are awarded NAMTS Navy Enlisted Classifications (NEC) codes in order that they are assigned to NAMTS NEC coded billets.

In addition to NAMTS training available at the RMCs/IMFs, many afloat NAMTS programs have been established aboard ships across several different platforms. CNRMC is making NAMTS training a priority for our Sailors and our fleet.

NAMTS News
NAMTS Graduates Recognized During SURFLANT Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium
Sept. 3, 2021 - NORFOLK, Va. – Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center Sailors who earned a Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) were recognized during the  Commander, Naval Surface Force...

NAMTS Expands Sailor Self Sufficiency with Acquisition of Diesel Engine Mockup
EN1(SW) Dallon Horman inspects three Detroit 12V71 diesel engines stored in a container at ACU2, still wrapped in cellophane from US Army base Fort Eustis. Used as diesel repair trainers for the US Army, the engines came complete with a steel frame engine stand, blowers, transmission, and expansion tanks.
Aug. 25, 2021 - Aug. 11, 2021, NORFOLK, Va. – For years, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) Diesel Shop had been interested in implementing the Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) Diesel Engine, Governor and...

NAMTS Program Graduated Record Number of Sailors in 2020
MR2 Katherine Chumbiray holds two vent plenum bolts, the one on the right is one she manufactured aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4).  MR2 Chumibray is enrolled in the NAMTS Inside Machine JQR and is working towards earning her Inside Machinist Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC).
April 6, 2021 - NORFOLK, VA – The Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) program graduated 1,135 Sailors in 2020, a record number, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.Established by the Chief of Naval Operations in 1998, NAMTS improves...