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Talking Shop: Celebrating NNSY’s Metal Forger Shop (Shop 11F)
March 14, 2025 — Metal forging is a craft that began between 4,000 – 7,000 B.C. and has been an integral part of human history since. The skill of shaping metal through hammering, heating, and cooling has been used over the centuries to create tools, weapons and intricate works of art. Blacksmiths have played a vital role in shaping civilization, just like the Metal Forging Shop, Shop 11F, consisting of eight metal forgers, has a role to play in supporting Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s (NNSY) mission of repairing, modernizing and inactivating the Navy’s warships and training platforms... MORE

Norfolk Naval Shipyard Metal Forging Shop (Shop 11F) Metal Forger Ian McHorney started his shipyard career in the Shipfitter Shop (Shop 11) approximately 10 years ago. It wasn’t until eight years later that he became a metal forger. “I have always been fascinated with forging. When I had the opportunity to work in Shop 11F, I jumped all over it,” said McHorney. “The job requests are always changing from making a tool one day to inspecting an anchor chain the next. This is what makes the job fun.”

Norfolk Naval Shipyard Contracting Personnel Complete Contracts Management & Practical Acquisitions Skills Workshop
March 14, 2025 — Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Contracting Department (Code 400) executes approximately 1,400 contracts each year. To ensure that all Code 400 personnel are familiar with and adhere to various policies, rules and regulations, Code 400 recently held its inaugural Contracts Management & Practical Acquisitions Skills (CMPAS) Workshop (pronounced “compass”) for nine new personnel... MORE

Norfolk Naval Shipyard Contracting Department Business Operation Division Head Donyette Rodgers (left) presents the Contracts Management & Practical Acquisition Skills (CMPAS) Workshop completion certificate to Contract Specialist Chaunsa Saunders. Saunders was one of nine to attend the inaugural 13-week program, which consisted of over 100 hours of academic instruction and 50 hours of hands-on training through mock procurements.

Professional development: Turning ideas into initiatives
March 13, 2025 — The Command Career Center is ready to help Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Center employees take their careers to the next level. Located at the Olympic Lodge Training Center, on Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, the Career Center is a command sponsored program that assists workers with things like résumé writing, creating... MORE

PSNS & IMF completes 3-year MMP availability on USS Ohio (SSGN 726)
March 13, 2025 — USS Ohio (SSGN 726) completed a three-year Major Maintenance Period availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Feb. 24, 2025, culminating with Naval Sea Systems Command (07) certification for Unrestricted Operations, and helping return the nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine back to the Indo-Pacific theater of operations... MORE

USS Ohio (SSGN 726) passes the Hammerhead Crane as the nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine departs from Pier 5, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, Dec. 19, 2024. Ohio returned to the fleet after completing a three-year Major Maintenance Period availability at PSNS & IMF (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Monthly blood drives vital to maintaining healthy supply
March 13, 2025 — The Armed Services Blood Program has been collecting and providing blood for America’s service members since 1952. Originally started by President Harry S. Truman in 1952, ASBP became a fully operational program in 1962.As the official blood program for the U.S. military, the mission of the ASBP has been to provide quality blood products and... MORE

Staff Sgt. Yoseph Roman, medic, Company C, Madigan Army Medical Center, collects blood from Patrick McIlhaga, electronics instructor, Shop 67, Electronics Technicians, March 5, 2025, during the monthly Blood Drive at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Ben Hutto)

Tuition Assistance Program helps employees reach education goals to advance their careers
March 13, 2025 — Kathy Miller, painter, Shop 71 Painters, knew she wanted more from her career at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. Despite the effort she was putting in every day at her job, she knew there was more she could do to advance her career.Three years ago, she made the choice to go back to school through Olympic College and... MORE

Kathy Miller, painter, Shop 71, Painters, took advantage of Command University's Tuition Assistance Program to further her education at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Code 700 team members continue to find new ways to use their mobile self-propelled modular transporters
February 27, 2025 — Cranes could be considered part of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility “brand” due to their visibility throughout the local community. People all around Sinclair Inlet can regularly see various portal cranes at PSNS & IMF trundling about, carrying large objects. Conversely, the Hammerhead Crane is one of the first... MORE

Austin Collins, rigger, Code 740, helps guide the self-propelled modular transporter near Dry Dock 5 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Command continues to expand food choices on the waterfront
February 27, 2025 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility has added yet another lunchtime food option for members of the command workforce inside the Controlled Industrial Area.Sweet Dahlia Baking is now serving everything from pepperoni rolls and meatball sandwiches to steak & ale pot pies and Sweet Dahlia dogs from the former Juan's Food... MORE

India Wadkins, left, and her mother, Stacey Wadkins, owner of Sweet Dahlia Baking, serve lunch to command employees, Feb. 19, 2025, from the former Juan's Food Trailer outside Building 460 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. Sweet Dahlia offers a different menu each day. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Navy leader's recent visit highlights the shipyard's use of new technology and the need for expansion
February 27, 2025 — Rear Adm. Peter Small, chief engineer & deputy commander Naval Sea Systems Engineering & Logistics, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Feb. 4, 2025, to discuss current technologies in use at PSNS & IMF, as well as any challenges that must be overcome to expand the use of innovative technologies here.Small was... MORE

Seth Haskins, additive manufacturing manager, Shop 31, Inside Machinist, briefs Rear Adm. Peter Small Feb. 4, during a tour of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility facilities in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Code 700 director honored for her high-level leadership
February 27, 2025 — The National Association of Superintendents has selected Chris Klinkert as its 2024 Superintendent of the Year, according to a recent NAS announcement.Klinkert, director, Code 700, Lifting and Handling Department, was selected for her work as a servant leader at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, according to the... MORE

The National Association of Superintendents has selected Chris Klinkert, director, Code 700, Lifting and Handling Department, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, as its 2024 Superintendent of the Year. (U.S. Navy photo)

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