Southeast Regional Maintenance Center

Shipyard Spotlight: Dustin Kuch – Shop 11 Shipfitter
April 9, 2025 — As an Army veteran and shipfitter since 2001, Shop 11 Shipfitter Supervisor Dustin Kuch is now using his experience and ability to develop others to benefit Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY)... MORE

An inspirational supervisor and mentor, Norfolk Naval Shipyard Shop 11 Shipfitter Supervisor Dustin Kuch is an engaged leader guiding his team to success and has been with NNSY for five years.

NNSY Team Answers the Call for Emergent Truman Repairs
April 9, 2025 — One of Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s (NNSY) lasting mottos that rings true across the waterfront is that America’s Shipyard will always step up to the plate to meet the mission – any ship, anytime, anywhere. When a need arises to repair, maintain, and modernize our Nation’s fleet, our employees will step up to answer that call. So, when an urgent need arose to perform urgent repairs following an incident that left one of our Nation’s finest in need, the NNSY team leapt into action to do their part... MORE

HST Combined Repair Team: Repairs led by Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) with exceptional coordination and support from Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Ship's Force, and industry partner Theodoropoulos Group. (Photo Courtesy of FDRMC)

Norfolk Naval Shipyard Trivia
April 9, 2025 — The official Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) command history entry for April 28, 1965 is yet only one sentence long and reads as follows: "USS Skate arrived for nuclear overhaul job, the first such overhaul in the shipyard." ... MORE

USS Skate (SSN 578) surfaces for the first time at the North Pole on March 17, 1959.

Code 931 Takes Charge with Implementing Model Line Initiative at America’s Shipyard
April 9, 2025 — Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) recently launched a model line effort in the Inside Machine Shop (Shop 31), taking principles from noted author and Navy advisor Dr. Steven Spear and learnings from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) to meet commitments and goals in inspecting, repairing, and testing auxiliary ballast tank hull and back valves repaired at the shipyard. Through teamwork from deckplate to support – the group was able to come together to complete the work that had taken approximately 150 days to overhaul in the past to 35 days, a more than 75 percent reduction... MORE

Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Shop 31 recently tested the pilot of the model line initiative with their auxiliary ballast tanks, utilizing principles from Dr. Steven Spear and learnings from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) to complete repairs that had previously taken approximately 150 days to now 35 days. This initiative was a huge win for the shipyard and was thanks to the teamwork from Shop 31, Code 100TO and the engineering department to ensure pre-planning and material acquisition was handled prior to the start of the job to ensure the mechanics could conduct non-stop execution of work.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s Brent Davis Honored as One of the Labor Apprentices of the Year for 2024
April 9, 2025 — In the years prior to Brent Davis entering the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Apprenticeship Program, he worked to make ends meet for his family in the local area, wondering if there was a lasting career waiting out there for him. A friend of the family, who’d been part of the program nearly a decade ago, urged him to apply for years – and finally Davis took a shot, getting accepted into the program as a boilermaker apprentice. He had no idea what a boilermaker truly did, yet he wanted to take on the opportunity and see where it went. Now a journeyman in the shipyard and an official Shop 41 Boilermaker, Davis graduated with glowing marks across the board for his workmanship. And due to his hard work and dedication to the craft, Davis was nominated for the Department of Labor (DOL) and Industry’s Division of Registered Apprenticeship Outstanding Apprentice of the Year – being selected as one of three from NNSY to win the title for 2024... MORE

Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Shop 41 Boilermaker Brent Davis graduated from the Apprenticeship Program Nov. 7, 2024. He was recognized as the Code 930 Mechanical Group Outstanding Apprentice by the NNSY Chapter of the National Association of Superintendents (NAS).

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