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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.

PSNS & IMF builds 51 cofferdams to increase ease of use, reduce cost
October 17, 2019 — When workers at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility need to test or perform work on certain valves or other ship’s components when a ship or submarine is pier side, they use cofferdams to create a dry space around where that valve or other component meets the sea. Divers attach the cofferdams on specific parts of a ship... MORE

Tran Anderson, Shop 26, Welders, works on a cofferdam Sept. 18, 2019, inside Building 460.

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.

Initiative aims to remove barriers to shipyard efficiency, on-time delivery
September 9, 2019 — A six-week pilot program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility will help the command streamline its processes, improve internal coordination and eliminate barriers between mechanics and their work. Known as the Naval Sustainment System - Shipyards, the initiative pairs a consulting firm with PSNS & IMF and Norfolk Naval... MORE

Shipyard finishes maintenance on USS Connecticut
September 6, 2019 — Returning another strategic asset to service with the fleet, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility completed its work on USS Connecticut (SSN 22) Sept. 5.Connecticut had moved out of the shipyard’s Dry Dock 4 on Aug. 10 to put the finishing touches on its five-and-a-half-month period of maintenance and modernization,... MORE

USS Connecticut (SSN 22) departs Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Dry Dock 4 Aug. 10.

Workforce learns about new technology at showcase
August 20, 2019 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees were able to check out cutting-edge products during the technology showcase hosted by the National Center for Manufacturing Science at the Kitsap Conference Center, Bremerton Harborside July 25 - 26.Roughly 1,100 employees used the opportunity to learn about industry... MORE

PSNS & IMF employees view a demonstration of tools during a technology showcase hosted by the National Center for Manufacturing Science at the Kitsap Conference Center July 25. More than 50 companies displayed equipment, tools, supplies and safety gear to more cost-effectively and efficiently help shipyard workers maintain, modernize and retire the Navy’s fleet.

PSNS & IMF Detachment Everett holds change of charge ceremony
August 19, 2019 — A new leader took the helm of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Detachment Everett Friday, when Cmdr. Aaron Coudray relieved Cmdr. Mark Schuchmann in a change of charge ceremony at the detachment.Capt. Dianna Wolfson, commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, presided over the ceremony... MORE

Cmdr. Aaron Cudray speaks to those in attendance at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Detachment Everett change of charge ceremony held August 16 at Naval Station Everett. Other members of the official party include (from left) Capt. Dianna Wolfson, commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Capt. Ginalyn Harrell, deputy commander, Northwest Regional Maintenance Facility, and Cmdr. Mark Schuchmann, outgoing office in charge, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Detachment Everett.

Process improvements to streamline Pittsburgh inactivation
August 12, 2019 — Inactivation process improvements gleaned from a series of projects in recent months at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility will culminate in a streamlined, less expensive inactivation effort on USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720).These improvements and others are expected to result in a preservation cost reduction of 40 percent... MORE

USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720) awaits inactivation in dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility.

USS Michigan begins 17-month refit period
July 26, 2019 — USS Michigan (SSGN 727) docked on July 10 to begin a 17-month Extended Refit Period which will end in 2020. Work during this availability includes battery replacement, structural repair and preservation, shaft replacement, other propulsion plant inspections and improvements, and installation of several new alterations. Critical path work for the... MORE

USS Michigan (SSGN 727) docks at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility July 10 to begin a 17-month Extended Refit Period.

Paint simulation training saves time, money, reduces waste
July 25, 2019 — Correctly painting a surface aboard a Navy vessel is not as easy as using a rattle can to repaint a mailbox or using a brush to touch up a fence at home. Painters throughout Shop 71, Painters, Blasters and Tilesetters, are taught how to put just the right amount of double-layer epoxy paint on a surface. Too little paint and the surface isn’t... MORE

Travis McGreger, Shop 71, Painters, Blasters and Tilesetters, training instructor, demonstrates how the virtual reality paint sprayer trainer works July 10, 2019, in a Continuous Training and Development classroom in Building 460.

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