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270 get credentialed at apprentice graduation
November 19, 2018 — Four years after digging into the double duties of extra work and academics as apprentices, 270 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees struck pay dirt at the Nov. 16 Apprentice Graduation. Earning journey-level certificates in 26 production trades and associate degrees in technical arts, the graduates received their new credentials before a massive crowd of well-wishers that overflowed the Bremerton High School Performing Arts Center, where the ceremony was held. ... MORE

PSNS commander Capt. Howard B. Markle congratulates shipfitter Tao Smith during the PSNS Apprenticeship Class of 2018 graduation ceremony Friday, Nov. 16 at Bremerton High School in Bremerton. The ceremony celebrated 270 graduates who earned a journey-level certificate in one of 26 trades and an associate degree in technical arts.

Team designs 3D-printed device to reduce time, cost, increase safety
October 23, 2018 — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Strategic Framework encourages employees at all levels to embrace innovation in support of the command’s mission to deliver warships back to the fleet on-time, every time... MORE

Jeff Pugh, a pipefitter, uses a new 3D-printed alignment tool to help punch holes in an iron pipe hanger.

PSNS & IMF honored with Defense maintenance award
September 25, 2018 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility has been selected for the 2018 Robert T. Mason Award for Depot Maintenance Excellence, the Department of Defense announced recently... MORE

USS Ohio (SSGN 726) entered drydock April 25, 2017, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, in Bremerton, Washington, and began her Major Maintenance Period. Ohio had recently returned from a 20-month deployment that included exercises involving special operations forces; port visits in Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan; and coordination of the largest Tomahawk missile onload in program history.

Teammates honored to recover, bring home POW/MIA service members
September 21, 2018 — POW/MIA Recognition Day is meaningful to the loved ones of service members whose status remains unknown, but it’s also significant to those who’ve worked for the command responsible for locating missing service members. The command responsible for location is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA, formerly known as Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command or JPAC)... MORE

Site witness, Jon Cavaiani hands out candy to the Montagnard children of Vietnam. A JPAC team deployed out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for 35 days in an effort to locate the remains of individuals lost during the Vietnam conflict.

Shipyard STEM outreach earns regional recognition
September 19, 2018 — For the second time in three years, the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility program of science, technology, engineering and mathematics outreach to area students has earned an award from the Navy’s regional headquarters... MORE

Steve Mastel, one of the coordinators for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility's science, technology, engineering and mathematics outreach program, talks with students about frequency generators during a Navy STEM day at the Puget Sound Navy Museum in Bremerton, Wash. PSNS & IMF's STEM outreach program was recently selected for a 2018 Community Service Award from Navy Region Northwest.

Shipyard newsletter now available online
September 6, 2018 — Salute, the official newsletter for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, is now publicly available online for the first time... MORE

23 trained for Navy innovations graduate Aug. 24
August 27, 2018 — Innovation is at the core of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s strategy for accomplishing its mission: maintaining, modernizing and retiring the Navy’s fleet. The shipyard and other local Navy commands recently certified a group of employees specially trained to lead the innovative processes intended to make their organizations successful into the future... MORE

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility Lean Six Sigma Black Belt instructor Tom Real (far left) and Rear Adm. Stephen Williamson, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s deputy commander for logistics, maintenance and industrial operations (far right) pose for a class photo with local graduates of the Black Belt course following the Aug. 24 ceremony at the Norm Dicks Government Center in Bremerton, Wash.

Shipyard innovation improves label plate process, reduces time and cost
August 27, 2018 — It’s not every day an idea reduces hazardous waste, cuts down on processing time, saves the command $28,000 a year and produces a higher quality product. Forward-thinking teammates in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Sheet Metal Shop (Shop 17) came up with just such an idea when looking to improve label plates used on vessels. ... MORE

Sean Joyner, a sheet metal mechanic in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Sheet Metal Shop, preps a print-out to create ID tags using the new photo sensitive label plate process. (Photo by Robin L. Lee, PSNS & IMF photographer)

Shipyard receives 11th consecutive energy award
August 16, 2018 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility has been named as a recipient of the 2018 Secretary of the Navy Energy Excellence Award, receiving a gold-level award... MORE

The guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) flies the Energy Security flag during the Great Green Fleet demonstration portion of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012 exercise.

Historic shipyard caissons on sale in disposal effort
August 8, 2018 — For sale: Unique 1911 and 1918 watercraft. VERY low mileage. 4.5 million pounds of history in these must-see models. Clean titles, no accidents. Need some TLC. You haul. Best offer... MORE

A historic photo of a caisson at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., in 1918. Two caissons are currently being offered for sale through the Defense Logistics Agency's disposition services.

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