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Command Counseling Program Launches: PSNS & IMF offers free, confidential employee mental health counseling
March 9, 2020 — Articles and studies pepper the internet linking stress and mental health challenges with adverse impacts on physical health, family life and work.Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility recognizes these issues and are meeting them head-on.The command recently welcomed two social workers, Gretchen Gamradt and Tracey... MORE

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Social Workers Tracey Middleton and Gretchen Gamradt provide free, confidential solution-focused therapy for employees.

PSNS & IMF and shipyard unions sign letter of intent for VPP reapplication
March 6, 2020 — Leaders from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, the Bremerton Metal Trades Council and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 12, signed a letter of intent today for PSNS & IMF to file a Voluntary Protection Programs application to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration... MORE

Leaders from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, the Bremerton Metal Trades Council and the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 12, signed a letter of intent today for PSNS & IMF to file a Voluntary Protection Programs application to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Region X.

PSNS & IMF celebrates Black History Month with community luncheon
February 20, 2020 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility hosted a community luncheon in honor of Black History Month at Kitsap Conference Center, Feb. 19.The shipyard’s African American Employee Resource Group and Diversity Leadership Council coordinated the event, which featured keynote speaker Valerie Scott, diversity and inclusion director... MORE

Capt. Dianna Wolfson, commander of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, speaks at the shipyard's African American Employee Resource Group community luncheon in honor of Black History Month at the Kitsap Conference Center Feb. 19. The luncheon was the fifth annual celebration held by PSNS & IMF and was attended by approximately 140 people, including both shipyard employees and partners.

Employee competes in elite Spartan Races after life-changing combat injury
February 13, 2020 — In 2009, Sgt. Jason Steinmetz and his team were ambushed during a patrol along the Pech River Valley in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.Steinmetz suffered permanent nerve damage to the right side of his body as a result of the attack and was medically retired. He earned a Purple Heart because of his injuries and is rated 100 percent disabled by the... MORE

Jason Steinmetz, radiological control technician at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility.

Applied math STEM students float their boats
January 10, 2020 — Splashing water, excited cheers and exuberant squeals echoed throughout the indoor pool area at the Bremerton, Washington YMCA on Jan. 8, as eighth-grade Science, Technology, Engineering and Math students from Mountain View Middle School raced their self-constructed cardboard boats in the school’s inaugural cardboard boat competition.Twenty... MORE

Stephen Mastel, PSNS & IMF STEM outreach coordinator provides in-water support for an eight-grade applied math student from Mountain View Middle School as she paddles her boat during the school’s inaugural cardboard boat race at the Bremerton Family YMCA. Twenty students participated in the event, piloting self-constructed boats made of cardboard and duct tape.

Shipyard and consulting group team up to improve processes
November 26, 2019 — When representatives from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility and from the Boston Consulting Group teamed up to improve processes and workflow in Shop 31 Work Center-402, Ball valves, they realized they would need to physically transform the ball valve workspace in conjunction with process improvement to reach their... MORE

Romel Ramos, a bench mechanic with Shop 31, Inside Machine Shop, updates the status board for employees with Work Center-402 inside Building 432.

PSNS & IMF welcomes 267 new apprentice graduates
November 8, 2019 — In an event four years in the making, 267 skilled workers graduated from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Apprentice Program in an event held Nov. 8 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds Kitsap Sun Pavilion.This year’s class represents 24 different trades and maintained an overall class GPA of 3.835. Each graduate... MORE

Capt. Robert Figgs, left, commanding officer, Trident Refit Facility, congratulates Shop 06 electronic industrial control mechanic Ian Jones during 2019 PSNS & IMF Apprentice Graduation ceremony Friday, Nov. 8 at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds Kitsap Sun Pavilion.

PSNS & IMF hosts educator’s day
October 18, 2019 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility hosted approximately 50 educators and career counselors from across Washington’s schools Oct. 18 for a tour of the command. The group included representatives from high schools, technical schools, colleges and organizations assisting veterans and wounded warriors transitioning back to... MORE

Corinne Beach, a STEM coordinator with Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility uses a model to demonstrate a dry-dock pump for educators from South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, Wash.

Secretary of the Navy visits Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility
September 20, 2019 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility is “the backbone of what gets done,” the secretary of the Navy told a gathering of hundreds of shipyard workers and Sailors during a whirlwind visit to the facility Friday.Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer addressed members of the PSNS & IMF workforce then toured key projects and... MORE

Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer addressed members of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility workforce Sept. 20, 2019, in Bremerton, Wash., before touring key projects and facilities during his hour-and-45-minute visit to the shipyard.

USS Louisiana docks in preparation for availability
September 12, 2019 — Settling into its temporary home for the next two and a half years, USS Louisiana (SSBN-743) docked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in preparation for an extended maintenance availability Sept. 11.The availability, an Engineered Refueling Overhaul, will see the project team focus on refueling, preserving and... MORE

Tugs guide the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) to its berth at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor after the completion of a patrol in 2012.

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