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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).

NSWC Panama City civilians develop first comptroller robotic process automation
April 8, 2025 — Four individuals in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Comptroller... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) employees (from left) Cory Bruckschen, Rachel Thompson, Jenica Lolley, and Tristan Dickinson, designed and implement the first Civilian Payroll Missing Time & Attendance and Unapproved Time Report process Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Robot (BOT). The team was also awarded the NSWC PCD FY24 Excellence in Business Innovation Annual Award. (U.S. Navy photo by Ronnie Newsome)

Navy Commissions USS Iowa (SSN 797)
April 7, 2025 —

GROTON, Conn. – The Navy commissioned its 24th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, USS Iowa (SSN 797), in a traditional ceremony held April 5, at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut.

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(April 5, 2025) – Sailors attached to the fast-attack submarine USS Iowa (SSN 797) man their newly commissioned submarine during a ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, April 5, 2025.

NAVSEA to Present at Sea-Air-Space
April 4, 2025 — WASHINGTON – Officials from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) will present program updates at... MORE

Resilient, Resolute, Relentless: Month of the Military Child
April 4, 2025 — Although kids of today may experience some of the issues I had many years (more than I would like to admit) ago, there are issues that our children and teenagers face today that I never had to deal with like cyberbullying, overuse of screen time and trying to separate fake news from not to name a few. However, there are over 1.6 million kids who currently face challenges that most of their peers don’t. Things like moving to a new city, state or country every two to three years; having a parent absent for holidays, birthdays; and having their parents in a combat zone, not sure if they will make it home alive or not. This group of resilient, resolute and relentless children is known as the “military child.”... MORE

Three-year-old Philip Scott, one-year-old James Scott, NNSY Nuclear Regional Maintenance Department (NRMD) Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear) Anh Scott and NNSY’s Fleet Maintenance Submarine (FMB) Rubber and Plastic Shop (Shop 57B) Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear) First Class Michael Scott have been a military family since the birth of Philip Scott.

Norfolk Naval Shipyard has Its Own Cavalry Known as Navy Reserve Surge Maintenance Program
April 4, 2025 — All four public Navy shipyards: Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), Portsmouth, Virginia; Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine; Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington; and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have their own cavalry, the Navy Reserve Surge Maintenance Program (SurgeMain)... MORE

During their annual Navy Reserve two-week-long training period at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), SurgeMain Charlotte Machinist Mate Third Class Ashton McDaniel (left) and SurgeMain Atlanta Machinist Mate First Class Kyle Leonard (center) watches NNSY’s Outside Machine Shop (Shop 38) Outside Machinist James Derrickson (right) as he demonstrates how to use a top-loaded ball valve, breaking down, taking measurements, using the center line tool to get the stem center line measurement and giving them a little refresher on some of the precision measuring tools that they would use and the proper tools to take apart the valve.

Talking Shop: Celebrating NNSY’s Pipefitter Shop (Shop 56)
April 4, 2025 — Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s (NNSY) Pipefitter Shop (Shop 56), consisting of approximately 450 shipyard employees, is responsible for bending pipe, fabricating hose assemblies, building complex piping systems, performing brazing operations and testing piping systems and components for carrier and submarine projects at NNSY as well as for off-yard carriers and amphibious warfare ships. Shop 56 also runs the acid room, which consists of large vats of acid solutions used to dip hard-to-clean components; plus, up until recently, Shop 56 had the only gasket-making capability onboard NNSY... MORE

Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s Pipefitter Shop (Shop 56) Pipefitter Jason Roldan uses the tools and knowledge he learned as a physical education teacher for elementary school kids and serving in the U.S. Navy for four years. “Working with elementary school-age children taught me patience and how to work with others. The Navy taught me discipline and what it meant to become an active member of a team with the same common goal. I didn’t realize how the lessons I learned in the teaching field and the Navy would become so beneficial to me at my job here at the shipyard.”

A Curator’s Legacy: Dana Wegner Honored for 50 Years of Federal Service
April 4, 2025 — After dedicating half a century to his career, Dana Wegner, curator of ship models at Naval Surface... MORE

Capt. Christopher Matassa presents Dana Wegner, curator of ship models, with the Department of the Navy Civilian Service Achievement Medal as Dr. David Drazen looks on during Wegner’s retirement ceremony at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, March 21, 2025.

NUWC Division Newport presents innovation and ONR awards to students in RI State Science and Engineering Fair
April 3, 2025 — On March 19, U.S. Navy Reservist Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Quinn, an engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, presented Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Division Newport Innovation Awards to the selected winners of the R.I. State Science and Engineering Fair held on March 15 at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus in Warwick... MORE

NSWC Crane scientist leads test and evaluation for space programs and novel universal charger
April 1, 2025 — Growing up near the Navy laboratory, Alexandria Kilzer didn’t expect her career would lead her to... MORE

Saturn V Rocket Display at George W.S. Abbey Rocket Park at NASA Johnson Space Center