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Employees from Shops 11, 17 and 75 use 'cold-cutting' method to cut up old Dry Dock 3 caisson for recycling
April 29, 2024 — A team of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility workers is using a wire saw to recycle one of the original caissons for Dry Dock 3.Workers from Shop 75, Dismantlers; Shop 11, Shipfitter; and Shop 17, Sheet Metal; developed a method of using a commercially available wire saw from Husqvarna, which uses a 3/16 inch wire cable... MORE

Todd Bolden, work lead, Shop 11/17, Shipfitter, Forge and Sheet Metal, and Chase Evans, general worker, Shop 75, IRR Ship Dismantling, monitor a wire saw, March 20, 2024, while cold-cutting a four-foot wide section of Caisson 3's keel in Dry Dock 3 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S Navy photos by Wendy Hallmark)

Future USS New Jersey Delivers to U.S. Navy
April 25, 2024 — NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The U.S. Navy Submarine Force’s newest attack submarine, the future USS New Jersey (SSN 796), delivered to the Navy on April 25, 2024.SSN 796 is the 23rd Virginia-class submarine co-produced by General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII-Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS); it is the 11th delivered by HII-NNS. The boat’s delivery... MORE

Keel Authenticated for Future USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr.
April 25, 2024 — SAN DIEGO - The keel for the future USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. (ESB 8), a Lewis B. Puller-class Expeditionary Sea Base, was laid at GD NASSCO shipyard April 25. The ship will be named for U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Private Hector A. Cafferata Jr., who served with distinction during the Korean War. Surviving the Battle of Chosin Reservoir among... MORE

The keel for the future USNS Hector A. Cafferata Jr. (ESB 8), a Lewis B. Puller-class Expeditionary Sea Base, was laid at GD NASSCO shipyard April 25.

U.S. Navy Announces First Mine Countermeasures Mission Package Embarked on USS Canberra
April 25, 2024 — WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy embarked the first Mine Countermeasures Mission Package (MCM MP) aboard USS Canberra (LCS 30), April 18, service officials announced. With the MCM mission package now onboard LCS 30, the Navy is looking forward to the first MCM Mission Package deployment in Fiscal Year 2025.As part of the embark process, the Navy... MORE

An unmanned surface vehicle is craned aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS 30), as a part of the first embarkation of the Mine Countermeasures (MCM) mission package, April 23. The MCM mission package is an integrated suite of unmanne

Command University employee recognized for her contributions to Equal Employment Opportunity
April 24, 2024 — Motisola McKinnon, workforce development branch head, Code 1182, Command University, was recently named a recipient of the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Equal Employment Opportunity Recognition Program, Fiscal Year 2023 award cycle.McKinnon was recognized for her efforts in promoting equal opportunity and for starting and supporting the shipyard's... MORE

Motisola McKinnon, workforce development branch head, Code 1182, Command University, was recently recognized for her work on Equal Employment Opportunity at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Jeb Fach)

Virtualized Combat System Completes Critical Navy First
April 24, 2024 — WASHINGTON — Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) recently became the first ship running a fully virtualized Aegis Combat System to successfully intercept an air target with a missile.Achieved during the ship's final phase of Combat System Ship Qualification Trials, this milestone marks a significant contribution to the... MORE

ATLANTIC OCEAN -- Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) fires a standard missile (SM-2) during Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) in the Atlantic Ocean on Feb.18, 2024. The crew's successful intercept of an air target with a missile (SM-2) is a first for a ship running a virtualized Aegis Combat System. This milestone, achieved during the ship's final phase of CSSQT, marks a significant contribution to the Navy's wider effort to field a single integrated combat system to surface ships. (U.S. Navy Photo)

NSWC Indian Head Division Showcases Technologies at CSM Art of Innovation STEAM Festival
April 24, 2024 — A robot dog trotted down the hallway of the College of Southern Maryland’s (CSM) Velocity Center as dozens of excited faces watched in awe at the CSM Art of Innovation Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics (STEAM) Festival, April 20. The dog, two explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robots and a fighter pilot ejection seat were just some... MORE

A young attendee of the College of Southern Maryland's (CSM) Art of Innovation Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Festival interacts with explosive ordnance disposal robots, April 20, at CSM’s Velocity Center in Indian Head, Maryland.

NUWC Division Newport employees win National Defense Industrial Association undersea warfare awards
April 22, 2024 — Dr. Jason Gomez, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s chief technology officer, and Dr. Robert Koch, a senior technologist in the Chief Technology Office, each recently received a 2024 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Undersea Warfare (USW) award... MORE

Royal Australian Navy Sailors graduate Submarine Officer Basic Course: next step, assignment to U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines
April 19, 2024 — (April 18, 2024) — In a first for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy (RAN), three RAN officers graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC) on Apr. 18, 2024, at the Naval Submarine School in Groton, Connecticut. The RAN officers’ graduation represents a significant step toward realizing Pillar 1 of the trilateral AUKUS... MORE

U.S. Naval Submarine School hosted a graduation ceremony for students in the Submarine Officer Basic Course at the USS Nautilus and Submarine Museum, April 18, 2024.

STRATCOM General attends NSWC Crane groundbreaking for new Strategic Systems engineering infrastructure
April 18, 2024 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new strategic missions facility on Monday, April 15. The Strategic Systems Engineering Facility (SSEF) will provide new integrated systems engineering and test capability and is planned to be completed at the end of 2025.General Anthony Cotton, the... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new strategic missions facility on Monday, April 15. The Strategic Systems Engineering Facility (SSEF) will provide new integrated systems engineering and test capability and is planned to be completed at the end of 2025.

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