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Team Louisiana leads the way for NSS-SY efforts
June 23, 2021 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility and the other three U.S. Navy shipyards are trying out Naval Sustainment System – Shipyard concepts on four pilot vessels, all of which are submarines.According to Matt VanRavenhorst, NSS-SY champion for PSNS & IMF, the commander of Naval Sea Systems Command Vice Adm. William Galinis...

Commands terminate NSS-SY sprint that wasn’t working as hoped
June 8, 2021 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, along with the other three public shipyards, stopped exploring one of the efforts they were focused on as part of the Naval Sustainment System – Shipyard process transformation effort after data indicated it wasn’t creating the time savings they’d hoped it would.In April, NSS-SY...

PSNS & IMF begins new trio of NSS-SY sprints
May 20, 2021 — Naval Sustainment System - Shipyard champions and experienced project leaders from all four Navy shipyards met at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in April to determine three areas the commands will focus on to streamline projects and help ensure ships are returned to the fleet on time or early.Matt VanRavenhorst, NSS-SY champion for Puget Sound Naval...

Nimitz begins Planned Incremental Availability at PSNS & IMF
May 10, 2021 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility officially kicked off a six-month Planned Incremental Availability on USS Nimitz (CVN 68) May 10, 2021.According to Steven Pugh, Fiscal Year 2021 Nimitz PIA deputy project superintendent, Code 312, Carrier Operations Department, the team will perform a laser alignment on catapults three...

Command earns 2020 CNO Shore Safety Award
May 4, 2021 — The Naval Safety Center announced March 21, 2021, that Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility won the Fiscal Year 2020 Chief ofNaval Operations Shore Safety Award in the Large Industrial category.The award recognizes PSNS & IMF’s outstanding support and achievement in safety and occupational health. Notably the command was...

Experience paying off for Louisville-Olympia project team
April 29, 2021 — The efforts of the experienced project team managing the simultaneous inactivation of Los Angeles-class submarines Ex-USS Olympia (SSN 717) and Ex-USS Louisville (SSN 724) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility have resulted in both projects currently running about four months ahead of schedule.According to Cmdr. Jack...

How to build, maintain more ready fleet
April 28, 2021 — The Chief of Naval Operations NAVPLAN released in January calls on the Navy to build and maintain a more ready fleet by focusing on four priorities: readiness, capabilities, capacity and Sailors.To this end, “we will accelerate our momentum in improving on-time delivery of ships, submarines, and aircraft out of maintenance availabilities,” the CNO...

Employees recognized for their communication innovation
April 12, 2021 — Two Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees were recognized by Capt. Jip Mosman, commander, PSNS & IMF, for leading a team that codified a sustainable engineering execution system, which was shared with all four U.S. Navy shipyards.The awardees, Mike Tracy, process management branch manager, Code 220, Resources,...

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...

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...

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