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PSNS & IMF holds socially-distanced apprentice graduation ceremony, honors students virtually
October 16, 2020 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Apprentice School graduated 236 students Oct. 16, in a ceremony unlike any other in the school’s 119-year history. Held in Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton’s “F Lot,” students received their diplomas and other graduation materials via a drive-through tunnel in observation of COVID-19... MORE

Aaron Crutchfield, left, Shop 26 Welders, receives his graduation certificate from Shop 26 superintendent Steven Dibert Oct. 16, 2020, during the annual Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Apprentice School Graduation ceremony in "F Lot" on Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, Washington. (PSNS & IMF photo by Scott Hansen)

Navy Partnership Advances Technology Applications Shipboard
October 15, 2020 — NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) – Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) in partnership with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) are collaborating to advance fiber optics research for application in Navy shipboard systems.The Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS) is a technology that utilizes specialized commercially available... MORE

Engineering Technician Adrian Wos reviews 3D models of potential Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS) housing units to be 3D printed

Future USS Mobile (LCS 26) Completes Successful Acceptance Trial
October 8, 2020 — MOBILE, Ala. — The future USS Mobile (LCS 26) successfully concluded its acceptance trial in the Gulf of Mexico Sept. 25 after a series of in-port and underway demonstrations.The Navy conducted comprehensive tests of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship’s systems during the trial, spanning multiple functional areas including main... MORE

NAVSEA 06 disestablished, components reintegrated
October 6, 2020 — NAVSEA disestablished its Warfighting Capability and Enterprise Readiness Directorate Oct. 1, reintegrating its components into Program Executive Office Unmanned Small Combatants (PEO USC) and other NAVSEA Directorate codes.“As of Oct. 1, we have disestablished NAVSEA 06, the Warfighting Capability and Enterprise Readiness Directorate and have... MORE

USS Donald Cook Completes Availability Ahead of Schedule
September 30, 2020 — ROTA, Spain – The Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) detachment Rota recently completed a Surface Incremental Availability (SIA) for USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) five days ahead of schedule, returning the ship for continued operational tasking.The USS Donald Cook is one of the Navy's four forward deployed Arleigh Burke-class... MORE

ROTA, Spain, (September 13, 2020) Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) detachment Rota completed the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) Surface Incremental Availability (SIA) five days ahead of schedule, returning the ship for continued operational tasking.

Navy seeks public input on planned Pearl Harbor shipyard improvement projects
September 23, 2020 — The Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) took another step forward Sept. 15 when the Navy published a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) regarding proposed actions at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF).SIOP is a 20-year investment plan for... MORE

Navy presses forward HACKtheMACHINE 2020 despite COVID
September 22, 2020 — 190907-N-WX378-0295 NEW YORK (Sept. 7, 2019) A team of Naval Midshipmen and Air Force Airmen from the Naval Academy and Air Force Academy participate in rack one during HacktheMachine competition at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, Sept. 7, 2019. HACKtheMACHINE is where people from diverse backgrounds and professions work... MORE

US Navy Awards Studies Contracts for Large Unmanned Surface Vessel
September 4, 2020 — WASHINGTON — The Navy has awarded contracts totaling $41,985,112 to six companies for Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV) studies. Each contract includes an option for engineering support that if exercised would bring the cumulative value for all awards to $59,476,146.The firm-fixed price contracts were awarded to Huntington Ingalls Inc.,... MORE

Navy Accepts Delivery of USNS Newport
September 3, 2020 — MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the twelfth Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel, USNS Newport (T-EPF 12), Sep. 2.EPFs are designed to operate in shallow waterways and are capable of a wide range of activities. The vessels are versatile, non-combatant, transport ships that are being used for high-speed transportation of... MORE

The U.S. Navy’s twelfth Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel, USNS Newport (EPF 12), successfully competed Integrated Sea Trials, July 30. (Courtesy Austal USA)

Navy Awards First USV Family of Systems Contract Delivery Orders
August 28, 2020 — WASHINGTON — The Navy has awarded the first delivery orders from the Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity - Multiple Award Contract (IDIQ-MAC) to support the Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) Family of Systems, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) announced Aug 28.Advanced Acoustics Concepts LLC, Arete Associates Inc., Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.,... MORE

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