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Naval Sustainment System – Shipyards: Underway and Making an Impact
April 26, 2021 — The Navy’s four Naval Shipyards are transforming how they maintain and modernize submarines and aircraft carriers. Naval Sustainment Systems - Shipyard (NSS-SY) is a business and process improvement effort designed to increase the on-time delivery of submarines and aircraft carriers at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine; Norfolk Naval... MORE

Vice Adm. Bill Galinis, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, April 23, 2021.

SRF-JRMC awarded 10th Chief of Naval Operations Shore Safety Award
April 19, 2021 — YOKOSUKA, Japan – Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) was recently awarded with the Chief of Naval Operations’ Shore Safety Award for fiscal year 2020, medium industrial category.The annual award recognizes shore-based Naval activities with demonstrably excellent safety records while sustaining mission readiness... MORE

Yuuki Toya, center, Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center’s (SRF-JRMC) fall protection subject matter expert discusses the fall protection requirements and issues working at the dry dock’s edge with Capt. Neil Sexton, right, SRF-JRMC commanding officer.

NAMTS Program Graduated Record Number of Sailors in 2020
April 6, 2021 — NORFOLK, VA – The Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) program graduated 1,135 Sailors in 2020, a record number, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.Established by the Chief of Naval Operations in 1998, NAMTS improves organic maintenance capability and material self-sufficiency by training Sailors in a number of Hull, Mechanical & Electrical... MORE

MR2 Katherine Chumbiray holds two vent plenum bolts, the one on the right is one she manufactured aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4).

Keel Laid for Future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr.
April 6, 2021 — BATH, Maine - The keel of the future USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124) was ceremoniously laid at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard, April 6.The ship’s namesake, Col. Harvey "Barney" Barnum Jr. (USMC, Ret.) and his wife and ship sponsor, Martha Hill, attended the event. Acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas W. Harker, Maine Senators... MORE

The future the future USS Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. (DDG 124) namesake, Col. Harvey "Barney" Barnum, Jr. (USMC, Ret.) (center) and his wife and ship sponsor, Martha Hill (left) monitor as Bath Iron Works welder Marty Fish (right) inscribes Col. Barnum’s signature onto the keel plate at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard, April 6.

USS Tripoli Marks Significant Steps Toward Fleet Tasking With Fitting Out Availability, Sea Trials
March 31, 2021 — SAN DIEGO - USS Tripoli (LHA 7), the second amphibious assault ship in the America class is highlighting its capabilities with the completion of its Fitting Out Availability (FOA), March 26 and upcoming sea trials.The FOA entails changes that resulted from lessons learned and feedback from USS America’s (LHA 6) availability and work postponed due... MORE

ASW Virtualization Initiative Expands DDG's Combat Capability
March 26, 2021 — WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, D.C. - A Navy team responsible for developing and testing Surface Ship Undersea Warfare Combat System Suites (AN/SQQ-89A (V) 15) improved the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability of a guided missile destroyer during a February exercise.The integrated team led by Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS)... MORE

USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) transits the Pacific Ocean.

SurgeMain Sailors Cover COVID Gap, Demobilization Starts Apr. 1
March 24, 2021 — WASHINGTON -- Beginning on April 1, 850 Navy Reserve Sailors mobilized by the Surge Maintenance (SurgeMain) program and deployed to the four naval shipyards will begin demobilization. The SurgeMain Sailors provide the shipyards with additional capacity to conduct ship maintenance and modernization during the COVID-19 pandemic.Over the course of the... MORE

NAVSEA’s HACKtheMACHINE Prize Challenge seeks cyber innovation, partners
March 23, 2021 — WASHINGTON -- Teams from across the country gathered virtually today to solve high-tech Navy challenges in a Prize Challenge hosted by Naval Sea Systems Command.The competition offers three separate challenges in Maritime Cyber, Data Science, and 3D printing over the next four days with teams competing for $95,000 in prize money.“HACKtheMACHINE is... MORE

U.S. Navy Recovers MH-60S Helicopter from Record Depth
March 22, 2021 — NORTH PACIFIC - NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) recovered a downed Navy MH-60S helicopter from a depth of 19,075 feet off the coast of Okinawa, Japan Thursday.The helicopter, a twin engine Sikorsky Seahawk, crashed into the Pacific Ocean last year while operating from the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19). The air... MORE

An MH-60S on deck of contracted salvage vessel off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan on March 18, 2021, having just been pulled from the depth of 19,075 ft by NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, (SUPSALV) at the request of the Navy Safety Center to facilitate accident investigation.

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.

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