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Command visit helps reinforce shipyard's enduring relationships with regional civil authority agencies
June 24, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility and Commander, Submarine Group 9, hosted a command visit for local emergency management State, County, and U.S. Coast Guard partners June 6, to help establish and reinforce close and enduring relationships with partner agencies and promote understanding for how the Navy Emergency... MORE

Washington Emergency Management Division employees, left, listen to a presentation on radiological emergency planning June 6, 2024, during a command visit for state, county and local emergency management partners on Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S Navy photos by Jeb Fach)

Campaign to focus on workforce safety
June 6, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility kicked off its “Pathway to Safety" campaign, May 21, focusing on the psychological and physical safety of the workforce.The "Pathway to Safety" campaign will run through the end of June.One of the key components of the month-long campaign is the psychological safety of the command's... MORE

Capt. JD Crinklaw, commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, high-fives employees, May 21, 2024, during a Pathway to Safety campaign event in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Head of Navy's SIOP effort says upgrading nation's shipyards for the future will require 'a holistic plan'
May 22, 2024 — The Program Executive Officer for the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, May 6-7, 2024, for waterfront and project briefs, and to meet with the PSNS Division for the program.Mark Edelson is the PEO for Industrial Infrastructure... MORE

Dave Sweet, director, Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, Program Management Office 555, leads Mark Edelson, Program Executive Officer for the U.S. Navy's Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, on a tour of Dry Dock 6, May 6, 2024, during a visit to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Jeb Fach)

Command event highlights the value of hiring people with disabilities
May 9, 2024 — The Spectrum of the Unique and Neurodiverse Employee Resource Group hosted a guest speaker from Trillium Employment Services in recognition Autism Awareness Month.Lindsey Woodruff, program manager at Trillium, discussed inclusivity, helping workers with disabilities find purpose and the value of hiring people with disabilities.“I was really happy... MORE

Lindsey Woodruff, program manager for Trillium, talks about the value of hiring people with disabilities, April 25, 2024, during a Spectrum of the Unique and Neurodiverse Employee Resource Group Employee Resource Group Autism Awareness Month observance in Building 431, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

PED POLICY UPDATE: Shipyard to allow camera-capable devices beginning May 20
May 9, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility will update its personal Portable Electronic Device (PED) policy May 20, which will allow employees to bring camera-enabled devices into the controlled industrial area.At the same time, PSNS & IMF will be adding Security Islands to information controlled spaces — similar to existing... MORE

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility will update its personal electronic device policy May 20, 2024, which will allow employees to bring camera-enabled devices into many areas of the controlled industrial area. (U.S. Navy graphic by Scott Hansen)

Employees of the Year: Command honors personnel for their hard work in 2023
May 9, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Employee of the Year nominees, their co-workers, friends and family gathered together at the Admiral Theatre April 23, to honor the command’s top employees during PSNS & IMF’s annual recognition ceremony.During the event, the command celebrated the 234 personnel who were nominated for... MORE

Capt. JD Crinklaw, commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, joins some of the 2023 PSNS & IMF employees of the year. PSNS & IMF Employee of the Year nominees, their co-workers, friends and family gathered together at the Admiral Theatre in downtown Bremerton, Washington, April 23, 2024, to honor the command’s top employees during PSNS & IMF’s annual recognition ceremony.

Shipyard employees teach elementary school students how dry docks work during Kitsap Water Festival
April 30, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees joined forces at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, April 16, 2024 in support of the 2024 Kitsap Water Festival.The educational event was open to over a thousand third and fourth graders from 15 local elementary schools to learn how their every-day actions impact water... MORE

Theron Bergland, general foreman, Shop 64, Shipwrights, and Steven Middendorf, docking zone manager, Code 240, Engineering and Planning, get help pumping out a dry dock mock-up from a group of students, April 16, 2024, at the Kitsap Water Festival in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Employees from Shops 11, 17 and 75 use 'cold-cutting' method to cut up old Dry Dock 3 caisson for recycling
April 29, 2024 — A team of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility workers is using a wire saw to recycle one of the original caissons for Dry Dock 3.Workers from Shop 75, Dismantlers; Shop 11, Shipfitter; and Shop 17, Sheet Metal; developed a method of using a commercially available wire saw from Husqvarna, which uses a 3/16 inch wire cable... MORE

Todd Bolden, work lead, Shop 11/17, Shipfitter, Forge and Sheet Metal, and Chase Evans, general worker, Shop 75, IRR Ship Dismantling, monitor a wire saw, March 20, 2024, while cold-cutting a four-foot wide section of Caisson 3's keel in Dry Dock 3 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S Navy photos by Wendy Hallmark)

Shipyard hosts Naval Reactors employees during two-week orientation program for new engineers
March 28, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility hosted five Naval Reactors engineers Feb. 5-16, who recently completed Bettis Reactor Engineering School.According to Ben Alford, Naval Reactors representative assistant at PSNS & IMF, this visit was the latest in the new engineer orientation program. Naval Reactors has been responsible... MORE

Matt Moyer, branch head, Code 135.1, Quality Assurance, Non- Destructive Testing, discusses eddy currents with Warren Herrington, Joseph Hughes, and Robert Kollman, Feb. 15, 2024, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Jeb Fach)

Event helps showcase shipyard apprentice program
March 28, 2024 — Approximately 300 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees attended an Apprenticeship Knowledge Fair in Building 460, February 28-29 and March 13-14.The event showcased the apprenticeship program's trade instructors and shop representatives along with the benefits of working as an apprentice.The four-day event also... MORE

Casey Harris, welder, Shop 26, Welders, talks with Nicholas Haskins, apprentice instructor, and Riley Morris, mechanic, both Shop 06, Tool Mechanics, Maintenance Logistics, March 13, 2024, during an Apprenticeship Knowledge Fair in Building 460 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Jeb Fach)

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