WHAT IS NSS-SY?

NSS-SY is the Navy’s overarching initiative to drive transformational reduction in availability duration for the Navy’s nuclear-powered warships.
The goal is to deliver all availabilities on time by FY23 and meet class maintenance plan (CMP) by FY26.

NSS-SY is a business and process improvement initiative to increase the on-time delivery of submarines and aircraft carriers across all four public shipyards.
- NSS-SY improves work execution by streamlining processes, enhancing coordination between work groups and dismantling barriers.
- Personnel directly benefitting from the NSS-SY effort have provided feedback this is helping to track and accomplish jobs in a more timely manner.
- The goal: to not just improve the way we currently do things, but to fundamentally transform them, by eliminating certain functions if they do not provide value.
- A collection of commercial industry best practices, tailored to specific needs.
It’s about working smarter in planning, not harder in execution.
- In addition to effective planning, accelerating momentum is crucial to this effort.
- Through NSS-SY, the contributions our shipyard workers make to Navy readiness and lethality will become even more consequential.
So, how does NSS-SY do that?
- NSS-SY ensures the production workforce has the tools, equipment, material, and information needed to execute jobs in the most efficient manner possible.
- Getting people what they need when they need it.
  - Treating mechanics as surgeons, for example. When they ask for an instrument, it’s handed right to them. Not an hour later, causing delays.
Fixing problems across the entire ship maintenance system/ not just the shipyard.
- Fundamentally transforming high priority processes and eliminating unnecessary ones.
- Improving operational level maintenance practices.
- Providing stable, predictable requirements to industry.
- Removing barriers that permit our people to do their best work.