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Team Submarines

Mission Statement

Keeping America's Navy #1 in the world by developing, acquiring, modernizing, and maintaining the world's best Submarines and Undersea Systems.

Team Submarine

Team Submarine is a combination of Program Executive Office (PEO) Strategic Submarine (PEO SSBN), PEO Attack Submarines (PEO SSN), and PEO Undersea Warfare Systems (PEO UWS).The Team Submarine concept divides the single submarine-centric organization into specific PEOs with the goal of enhancing the structures and processes in the submarine research, development, acquisition, and maintenance communities. Team Submarine provides exceptional communication among the various offices that contribute to the overall success of the United States Submarine Force.

Team Submarine's PEOs

  • Program Executive Office, Strategic Submarines: PEO SSBN, Strategic Submarines, enables proactive and focused management for strategic deterrence, sustainment, and infrastructure. PEO SSBN is NAVSEA affiliated, and responds to the Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command.
  • Program Executive Office, Attack Submarines: PEO SSN manages Attack Submarine platform acquisition, development, and sustainment. Program offices executing design, development, acquisition, and delivery are aligned in one branch under the new construction SSNs Executive Director. In-service submarine program offices and Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement (SUBMEPP) are aligned under the In-Service Executive Director, ensuring consolidated focus on improving submarine sustainment and maintenance availability.
  • Program Executive Office, Undersea Warfare Systems: PEO UWS, Undersea Warfare Systems, enables the delivery of enhanced combat capability, with improved cybersecurity and resiliency, to all submarine platforms. UWS positions Team Submarine to ensure undersea sensors and warfare systems in support of Distributed Maritime Operations. PEO UWS includes the undersea domain program integration office for Project Overmatch and organizes these programs, projects, and efforts to directly support DRPM Overmatch. All Team Subs Participating Resource Managers (PARM) program offices are aligned under PEO UWS. The offices are responsible for submarine training; submarine logistics; and the submarine safety.

PEO Attack Submarines

Rear Admiral Jonathan Rucker
Program Executive Officer, Attack Submarines (PEO SSN)
Rear Adm. Jonathan Rucker
Program Executive Office Attack Submarines
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Ms. Lisa M. Radocha
Ms. Lisa M. Radocha
Executive Director, Program Executive Office Attack Submarines
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Stephanie Link, Executive Director, In-service Submarines Program Executive Office, Attack Submarines (PEO SSN)
Stefanie Link
Executive Director, In-service Submarines Program Executive Office, Attack Submarines (PEO SSN)
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PEO Strategic Submarines

Rear Admiral Scott W. Pappano, Program Executive Officer, Strategic Submarines
Rear Adm. Scott W. Pappano
Program Executive Office Strategic Submarines
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Executive Director, Amphibious Auxiliary and Sealift Office PEO Ships
Mr. Matthew D. Sermon
Executive Director, Program Executive Office Strategic Submarines
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PEO Undersea Warfare Systems

Michael D McClatchey, Executive Director, Undersea Integration & Undersea Warfare Chief Technology Officer PEO Submarines
Michael D. McClatchey
Program Executive Office Undersea Warfare Systems
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Capt. Douglas J. Adams
Capt. Douglas J. Adams
Deputy, Program Executive Office Undersea Warfare Systems
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Team Submarines Senior Enlisted

CMDCM(SS) Josh Sturgill 
Command Master Chief, Team Submarines 
(PEO SSN, PEO SSBN, PEO UWS)
CMDCM(SS) Josh Sturgill
Command Master Chief, Team Submarines (PEO SSN, PEO SSBN, PEO UWS)
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Team Submarines News
U.S. and Australian Navies Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Heavyweight Torpedo Armaments Cooperation
Royal Australian Navy Rear Adm. Ian Murray, Australian Defence Attaché to the United States of America and the Head of the Australian Defence Staff, and Mr. Michael McClatchey, Program Executive Officer, Undersea Warfare Systems, hold a plaque commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Heavyweight Torpedo (HWT) Armaments Cooperation Project (ACP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), during a celebration on board the Washington Navy Yard, April 13.
April 22, 2023 - Washington D.C. – The Program Executive Office, Undersea Warfare Systems hosted the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Heavyweight Torpedo (HWT) Armaments Cooperation Project (ACP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the...

New additive manufacturing printer enables Sailors to ’think outside the box’
Feb. 24, 2023 - Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) received complimentary reviews of a recently installed additive manufacturing (AM) 3D printer on the Virginia-class attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN 778).  The printer, a Markforged...

Pennsylvania Talent Pipeline Program Expands to Pittsburgh for Inaugural Career Day, Welding Competition
Team Submarine’s Command Master Chief Josh Sturgill (left) stands with Project MFG representatives and welding competition participants, during the Pennsylvania Talent Pipeline Project’s inaugural Project MFG Welding Competition and Career Discovery Day held in Pittsburgh at the Pittsburgh Technical College, in Oakdale, Pa., Nov. 29. The expansion of the Pennsylvania Talent Pipeline Project seeks to engage and energize the Pittsburgh defense industrial base by creating a maritime-focused manufacturing talent pipeline in support of the Navy’s significant demand for critical trade skills.
Dec. 7, 2022 - PITTSBURGH – Nearly 125 students, representing 8 training providers, participated in the inaugural Project MFG Welding Competition and Career Discovery Day at Pittsburgh Technical College, Nov. 29, as part of the Pennsylvania...

Navy Authenticates Keel for Future USS Arizona (SSN 803)
Ship Sponsor Nikki Stratton (left foreground) and Electric Boat welder Bob Hobday (right foreground) prepare to weld Stratton's initials into a plate that will be placed on the future USS Arizona (SSN 803), during the boat's keel authentication ceremony at the Electric Boat Quonset Point Facility in North Kingstown, R.I., Dec. 7. The submarine will be the first U.S. naval vessel to bear the name Arizona since battleship USS Arizona (BB 39) was
sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Dec. 7, 2022 - WASHINGTON – Senior Navy leaders, elected officials, and industry partners gathered at General Dynamics Electric Boat’s Quonset Point Facility, Dec. 7, to attend a keel-authentication ceremony for future Virginia-class...

Navy Hosts First Welding Competition, Career Discovery Event for Virginia Talent Pipeline Program
Matt Sermon (center front), executive director, Program Executive Office, Strategic Submarines, and Team Submarine’s Command Master Chief Josh Sturgill (in uniform) stand with Project MFG representatives and student participants, during the Virginia Talent Pipeline Project’s inaugural Project MFG Welding Competition and Career Discovery Day at the Virginia Peninsula Community College, in Hampton, Va., Nov. 16. The Virginia Talent Pipeline Project engages and energizes the Hampton Roads defense industrial base by creating a maritime-focused manufacturing talent pipeline in support of the Navy’s significant demand for critical trade skills.
Nov. 28, 2022 - HAMPTON, Va. – Nearly 300 students, representing 18 training providers, participated in the Virginia Talent Pipeline Project’s (VA TPP) inaugural Project MFG Welding Competition and Career Discovery Day at the Virginia...

Navy Cuts the Ribbon on its New Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence; Announces New Regional Training Center in Danville, Va.
Senior military leaders cut the ribbon at the Navy’s new Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (CoE), located within the State of Virginia’s Center for Manufacturing Advancement on the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research’s campus in Danville, Virginia., Oct. 5. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place during the Second Annual Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing Summit, which brought together federal, state and local government officials, as well as defense, industry and academic partners, to discuss the importance of creating a ready and capable workforce and strong industry partnerships to close the trade and manpower gaps impacting the defense industry. Pictured from left:  Rear Adm. Jason M. Lloyd, chief engineer and deputy commander, Ship Design, Integration and Naval Engineering, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA); Rear Adm. Scott Pappano, program executive officer, Strategic Submarines (PEO SSBN); Whitney Jones, director, Submarine Industrial Base; Matt Sermon, executive director, PEO SSBN; and Vice Adm. William Galinis, commander, NAVSEA.
Oct. 6, 2022 - DANVILLE, Va. (October 6, 2022) – Oct. 5, the U.S. Navy celebrated the formal opening of its Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) within the State of Virginia’s Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) on...

USS Boise moves to Newport News, prepares for overhaul
Official U.S. Navy file photo of USS Boise (SSN 764).
May 8, 2020 - WASHINGTON -- USS Boise (SSN 764) moved from Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, to Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division in Newport News, Virginia, May 8 to begin pre-maintenance "smart start"...