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Detachment work brings sense of pride to Sailor
September 27, 2018 — Hull Maintenance Technician 1st Class Petty Officer Mitchell Hovland has been in the Navy for eight years. He’s served at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Everett Detachment for over two years... MORE

HT1 Mitchell Hovland, left, works with trainees HT2 Dustin Harley, middle and HT3 Brandon Orozco, on a test weld at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Everett Detachment.

Everett teammate displays passion for safety
September 27, 2018 — Annie Mathis is an occupational safety and health specialist with Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s Everett Detachment. She started with the command as a helper-trainee in 2014 as a dismantler. Mathis has been assigned to the detachment since April... MORE

Annie Mathis, a Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility occupational safety and health specialist with the Everett Detachment, helps equip the workforce at the detachment with the tools and knowledge they need for a safe work environment

U.S. Navy’s HACKtheMACHINE Seattle Encourages Innovation In Maritime Dominance
September 26, 2018 — SEATTLE – Naval Sea Systems Command hosted HACKtheMACHINE, the Navy’s digital experience for building a community of practice in maritime security Sept. 21-23... MORE

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.

Future USS South Dakota delivered to U.S. Navy
September 25, 2018 — GROTON, Conn. - The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future USS South Dakota (SSN 790), the 17th submarine of the Virginia class, Sept. 24... MORE

File photo of the future USS South Dakota (SSN 790)

NSWC Crane Division, Ivy Tech Awarded 2018 FLC Midwest Regional Award for STEM, T2 Efforts
September 25, 2018 — NSWC Crane and Ivy Tech Community College were awarded the State and Local Economic Development Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) for their partnership on a STEM summer camp. For the past two years, NSWC Crane and The Gayle & Bill Cook Center for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington have collaborated on the camp, which targeted young people with entrepreneurial dreams from grade 7 to 10... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division and Ivy Tech Community College were awarded the State and Local Economic Development Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) for their partnership on a STEM summer camp. For the past two years, NSWC Crane and The Gayle & Bill Cook Center for Entrepreneurship at Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington have collaborated on the camp, which targeted young people with entrepreneurial dreams from grade 7 to 10.

Navy Scientists and Engineers Inspire Fifth Graders at 2018 NAS Oceana Air Show
September 25, 2018 — VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Hundreds of fifth-grade Virginia Beach elementary school students learned more about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through fun hands-on displays at the annual Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana Air Show, Sept. 21. Navy civilian scientists and engineers from Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division... MORE

IMAGE: VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Sep. 21, 2018) – The combined science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) team from Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, NSWCDD Dam Neck Activity, and Dahlgren’s Sly Fox program led education efforts through hands-on STEM displays to fifth grade Virginia Beach elementary school students at the annual NAS Oceana Air Show.

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.

First in Class Ship, Future USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205), Starts Construction
September 21, 2018 — SAN DIEGO - A ceremony was hosted at General Dynamics-National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) shipyard to celebrate the start of construction of the Navy's first John Lewis-class Fleet Replenishment Oiler, the future USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205), Sept. 20. ... MORE

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.