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Leaders gather to discuss fire safety
April 13, 2023 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility led the Northwest Regional Fire Safety, Prevention and Response Summit April 6 and 7, welcoming eight organizations to the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington, for a two-day event. Sessions during the summit focused on solving major challenges in preventing shipboard fires,...

NSS-SY Spotlight: Trade Advocates
April 13, 2023 — As a relatively new program, implemented within the last several years, the Naval Sustainment System - Shipyards initiative aligns with the Get Real, Get Better framework of building a workforce of problem solvers and innovative thinkers. It is a fresh, modern approach to how business is done within the U.S. Navy. Like most operational adjustments...

Undersecretary of the Navy, Vice Chief of Naval Operations visit PSNS & IMF
April 3, 2023 — Under Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Erik Raven, and Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility March 29, 2023, to discuss implementation of the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program and Naval Sustainment System – Shipyards, and to assess ongoing seismic...

Roosevelt completes sea trials en route to San Diego after wrapping up 18-month availability at PSNS & IMF
March 29, 2023 — USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) completed an 18-month docking planning incremental availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, March 21.According to Brian McDermott, USS Theodore Roosevelt Project superintendent, work completed during the availability, which began Sept. 10, 2021, included a variety of regularly...

NSS-SY Spotlight: Genba walk – Pumpwell workers support the fleet every day, working behind the scenes, between dockings and undockings, to keep PSNS & IMF dry docks operational
March 28, 2023 — When ships and submarines make their way into or out of one of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s six dry docks, riggers and handlers can be seen alongside the vessels tending lines and chains, and operating industrial equipment. However, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that is critical to successful docking...

Newly developed radiation-detection technology aids shipyard's radiological response, monitoring training
March 23, 2023 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance facility and the other three public shipyards are benefitting from added realism that newly developed radiation detection indication and computation instruments, and dosimetry technology now offer.The devices and techniques used in training here use device manipulation and verbal cues from a...

Shipboard fire a constant threat: Bonhomme Richard tragedy an enduring lesson in fire prevention, response
March 16, 2023 — July 12, 2020 was a lazy Sunday morning at Naval Base San Diego. USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), which had been commissioned only two years earlier, had recently made the base its new homeport and was docked as it underwent a maintenance availability.But, the silence of that morning was rocked by an explosion a few minutes before 9 a.m., changing...

With an eye toward the future: Taking care or your eyes should be just as important as getting daily exercise and maintaining a healthy diet
March 16, 2023 — The ability to see and maintain ocular health can often be taken for granted, but as one of the body’s primary senses, vision deserves protection and care. Maintaining ocular health involves the examination and assessment of all of the structures in and around the eyes to determine overall health and diagnose eye disease. Within Puget Sound Naval...

NSS-SY Spotlight: Trade Expert Brian Burge
March 16, 2023 — As seen by its strategic framework, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility places people at the center of its operations. Without a skilled production workforce, the shipyard would face challenges in meeting its mission of maintaining, modernizing and retiring the U.S. Navy’s fleet.In April 2022, the Naval Sustainment...

All hands on deck: Integrated Project Team Development Expo 'sets the tone' for Sailors, PSNS & IMF personnel as availability begins
March 15, 2023 — When a submarine arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, there is more to availability preparation than staging materials, preparing tool kits, completing paperwork and setting schedules. There is a human component as relationships among Sailors, government civilians and contract personnel come to the forefront...

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