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Innovation aids carrier maintenance efforts: Automating heat exchanger cleaning process improves critical path work
March 18, 2021 — A team of innovators at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility spearheaded an effort to automate the process of cleaning heat exchanger tubes during aircraft carrier availabilities that proved so successful, the process is being exported to other carrier maintenance locations.Prior to the process change, mechanics would... MORE

A remote-operated, three-axis hydro-lance indexer is mounted in the tubes of a mock heat exchanger during recent vendor provided training inside Building 107 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (PSNS & IMF photo)

NSWC Crane Scientists Teach STEM Students about Infrared Light
March 18, 2021 — CRANE, Ind. – Scientists from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) worked with the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Program to develop a video teaching K-12 students about infrared lights, its uses in daily life, and how it applies to NSWC Crane.In early 2020, the STEM program pivoted and worked with... MORE

Command learns, adapts during pandemic: Effort to protect workforce, meet mission continues year after worldwide pandemic declared
March 17, 2021 — As the workers and leaders from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility rang in the New Year the evening of Dec. 31, 2019, they had no idea of the tremendous personal and professional challenges that lay ahead for everyone in 2020.What started with an announcement from the World Health Organization, Jan. 9, 2020, of a new... MORE

Shop 64 fabric workers at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, make cloth masks and polycarbonate face shields that can be used to protect the workforce, or provided to Naval Hospital Bremerton and local hospitals if the need arises.

USS Michigan undocks as end of challenging availability nears
March 16, 2021 — USS Michigan (SSGN 727) undocked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility March 16, 2021, after more than a year and a half in Dry Dock 2, as it nears the end of its Extended Refit Period.According to Melissa Kittrell, assistant project superintendent, Code 327, Operations Department Submarine Program, PSNS & IMF mechanics... MORE

USS Michigan (SSBN 727) undocked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility March 9, 2020, after more than a year and a half in Dry dock 2, as it nears the end of its Extended Refit Period.

SRF-JRMC awarded Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
March 16, 2021 — YOKOSUKA, Japan – Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday recently awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation to U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) for expeditiously returning USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) to full mission capability following its tragic collision in August 2017.Despite conducting the... MORE

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Nov. 27, 2018) – SRF-JRMC’s undocking team handle the lines as USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) crosses the sill during the ship’s undocking, marking a significant milestone in the ship’s recovery from her 2017 collision at sea.

NSWC Crane hypersonics expert aims to connect research and ‘doers,’ maximize investments in enterprise
March 15, 2021 — Crane, Ind. – Dr. Sarah Armstrong was named Director of the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office Systems Engineering Field Activity (JHTO SE FA) at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) in January 2021. Over the course of her career, Dr. Armstrong has also worked as failure analysis engineer, a radiation-hardened analog... MORE

NSWCPD Concludes National Engineers Week with Virtual STEM Event for Local Students
March 12, 2021 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) concluded its National Engineers Week celebration by hosting a virtual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) virtual event with students from local schools on Feb. 26, 2021.With a focus on women in engineering, a highlight of the program was keynote speaker Dr. Michele... MORE

Dr. Michele Marcolongo gives a presentation during the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD)’s National Engineering Week celebration. Marcolongo, the Dean of Engineering at Villanova University, spoke during a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Outreach virtual event, focusing on how she lead a group that created 32,000 face shields last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Navy photo by Brentan Debysingh / Released)

NAVSEA seeks talent, tech solutions at HACKtheMACHINE 2021
March 11, 2021 — WASHINGTON -- Naval Sea Systems Command will host a HACKtheMACHINE Prize Challenge this month, offering cash prizes to teams from across the country able to solve high-tech Navy challenges."HACKtheMACHINE is focused on three tracks this year: data science [public health related], metal 3D metal printing as it relates to shipbuilding, and maritime... MORE

A team of Naval Midshipmen and Air Force Airmen from the Naval Academy and Air Force Academy participate in track one during HacktheMachine competition at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City, Sept. 7, 2019.

HRMC Docks USS William P. Lawrence For Maintenance Availability
March 11, 2021 — PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Hawaii Regional Maintenance Center (HRMC) docked Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) March 9, completing one of the first major milestones in the ship’s docking selected restricted availability (DSRA).This will be the second time HRMC has partnered with Vigor Marine, LLC to complete... MORE

USS William P Lawrence (DDG 110) docks in Dry Dock #4 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF on March 9.

Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Daniel Inouye
March 8, 2021 — BATH, Maine – The Navy accepted delivery of the guided missile destroyer future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) from shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, March 8.Delivery of DDG 118 represents the official transfer of the ship from the shipbuilder to the Navy. Prior to delivery, the ship successfully conducted a series of at-sea and pier-side... MORE

The future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) departs General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard on Feb. 3 for acceptance trials.

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