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NSS-SY Spotlight: Waterfront Offsite | An urgent call to action – PSNS & IMF must commit to project management fundamentals to support on-time delivery
January 3, 2023 — For more than 245 years, the U.S. Navy has patrolled the seas and protected freedom. Throughout that time a truth has emerged: the Navy is only as strong as its shipyards. The need for the Navy’s strategic advantage has become increasingly prevalent during the last several years as the nation observes the advancing sea power of its adversaries. The... MORE

NSS-SY spotlight: Waterfront offsite graphic. Original image used to produce this graphic was taken by Kenneth Takada. (U.S. Navy graphic by Adrienne Burns)

NSS-SY Innovation Spotlight: Digital crew boards
November 22, 2022 — In mid-2021, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Naval Sustainment System-Shipyards Waterfront Pillar team rolled out standards for start-of-shift briefs and introduced the use of dry-erase crew boards. With an innovative mindset, Code 900DX Digital Transformation and the Code 900 Production Resources Officer looked... MORE

NSS-SY Innovation spotlight graphic (U.S. Navy graphic by Adrienne Burns)

NSS-SY Spotlight: PSNS & IMF leverages change management in support of NSS-SY
November 9, 2022 — Managing and facilitating change is a challenging prospect for organizations of all shapes and sizes no matter the industry. For the U.S. Navy’s four public shipyards, the introduction of formal change management is underway to support Naval Sustainment System-Shipyards efforts to usher in new business and production operations, processes and... MORE

NSS-SY Spotlight graphic (U.S. Navy graphic by Adrienne Burns)

NSS-SY Spotlight: Planning Pillar
October 25, 2022 — Each U.S. Navy asset entering the shipyard has a unique journey, with planning and scheduling creating a roadmap toward successful project completion. The shipyard’s maintenance, modernization and retirement projects require detailed preparation and careful analysis to determine how many calendar and resource days will be needed to execute numerous... MORE

NSS-SY Spotlight: Planning Pillar graphic (U.S. Navy graphic by Adrienne Burns)

NSS-SY Spotlight: Fleet Ops Pillar
September 29, 2022 — Supporting the U.S. Navy’s fleet and uniformed service members is foundational to shipboard work performed at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. Each morning at precisely 8 a.m., as the national anthem washes across the shipyard, Sailors and shipyard employees stand at attention aboard docked vessels and outside work... MORE

NSS-SY Spotlight: Fleet Ops Pillar graphic (U.S. Navy graphic by Adrienne Burns. Source U.S. Navy photos used in graphic by Scott Hansen and Wendy Hallmark.)

NSS-SY Spotlight: Inside Shop Pillar
September 15, 2022 — More than 20 Naval Sustainment System- Shipyards stakeholders gathered in San Diego July 26-28, 2022 to collaborate and brainstorm on Inside Shop Pillar activities, such as work center transformations, improved scheduling accuracy, and developing a core cadence for Production Control Centers. The summit’s primary goal was to develop strategies to... MORE

NSS-SY Spotlight: Inside Shop Pillar graphic created by Adrienne Burns, Salute editor. Source photo used: U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark.

NSS-SY Spotlight: Waterfront pillar
June 2, 2022 — The Naval Sustainment System-Shipyard Waterfront Pillar is more than simply a notion for operational improvement. It is a living program that empowers employees at all levels to express their ideas on how to work more effectively through following and improving Project Management Fundamentals.The pillar focuses on education and training, planning... MORE

Rear Adm. Scott M. Brown, deputy commander, Naval Sea Systems Command Industrial Operations, is briefed on Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program by Dave Sweet, deputy program manager, PMS 555, March 31, 2022 during a tour of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. Brown is the Waterfront Pillar lead for Naval Sustainment System-Shipyard, one of nine pillars meant to support the mechanics at the deckplate level and empower them to innovate and elevate issues. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott Hansen)

NSS-SY Spotlight: Engineering pillar
June 1, 2022 — The Naval Sustainment System – Shipyard Engineering Pillar is focused on removing or mitigating barriers to accomplish work safer, faster and with the highest quality by applying engineering methods and technical authority to challenging requirements and implementing new methods and technology. The Engineering Pillar is led by Rear Adm. Jason... MORE

Rear Adm. Jason Lloyd, chief engineer and deputy commander of Ship Design, Integration and Naval Engineering, SEA 05,
participates in a Q&A session with engineers March 30 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. Lloyd is the source of shipyard technical authority, chair of the Engineering Intervention Board and the Engineering Pillar lead. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott Hansen)

NSS-SY pillar construct demonstrates multi-agency commitment to transformation
December 22, 2021 — The Naval Sea Systems Command Transformation Office confirmed last month the final pillar construct for Naval Sustainment System – Shipyards, the Navy’s major initiative to improve work execution and shorten availability durations at the public shipyards.NSS-SY began in 2019 as a pilot program designed to remove barriers to productivity and in... MORE

NSS-SY: Delivering full system support tot he deckplate. Pillar diagram.

NSS-SY: Crew boards streamline start-of-shift process for supervisors, workers across shipyard
September 27, 2021 — Crew boards, which were part of the Naval Sustainment System—Shipyards Start-of-Shift sprint conducted during the past several months, are now being expanded to additional projects across Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility.According to Ray Howard, an NSS-SY lead for PSNS & IMF, crew boards were found to be an effective... MORE

Rear Adm. Howard B. Markle, deputy commander, Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations, Naval Sea Systems Command, talks with Chris Harty, Shop 11/17 Shipfitter and Sheet Metal, general foreman, and Timothy Tibbs, Shop 11, Shipfitter, supervisor, about the use of crew boards Aug. 26, 2021, during a tour of the Building 1124 CVN Maintenance Complex at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (PSNS & IMF photo by Scott Hansen)

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