The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Boise (SSN 764) enters Souda Bay, Greece, during a scheduled port visit on Dec. 23, 2014. Boise conducted naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe during its last deployment that ended in January 2015 — and the submarine has been awaiting a maintenance availability ever since, due to limited capacity in public and private yards. US Navy photo.
After years of struggling to...
BAE Systems’ Pearl Harbor shipyard. BAE Systems photo
BAE Systems Hawaii Shipyard is getting out of the surface ship repair business at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, a move leaving 290 workers without a job.
The company plans to shutter its Pearl Harbor operation, starting with a round of layoffs in February. BAE will finish a final ship availability at the yard, scheduled for completion by the end of March 2021, before permanently shuttering its Pearl Harbor operation, according to an October...
https://news.usni.org/2019/12/24/bae-systems-shuttering-pearl-harbor-maintenance-operation
An aerial view of the USS Arizona and USS Missouri Memorials at Ford Island, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. US Navy Photo
The Navy has released the identities of the sailor and two shipyard workers that were killed in a Wednesday shooting.
“Two Department of Defense civilians died following a shooting at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on Dec. 4,” read the Friday statement. “The shooter, a Navy sailor assigned to USS Columbia (SSN-771), died from self-inflicted...
Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Lashavya Barber welds aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) in 2018. US Navy Photo
CAPITOL HILL – The Navy is still working to reduce its ship maintenance backlog, but a number of small improvements at its four public shipyards and innovative applications of new technologies and processes are moving the needle in the right direction, top leaders say.
The Navy in 2018 created a Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) that would
USS Jefferson City (SSN-759) departs Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard after completing an engineering overhaul to prolong the life of the submarine. US Navy Photo
This report will be updated as new information becomes available.
Security forces at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii are responding to reports of an active shooter at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Navy officials confirmed to USNI News on Wednesday.
“The incident occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. [7:30 p.m. EST] Due to the ongoing...
https://news.usni.org/2019/12/04/active-shooter-reported-at-pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard
Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Jefferson City (SSN-759) departs Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard after completing an engineering overhaul to prolong the life of the submarine. Navy photo
Under-funded, obsolete, out of room and wearing out is the status of the Navy’s shipyards according to a Government Accountability Office. report detailing the service’s ambitious decades-long and multi-billion-dollar facilities modernization plan.
The GAO report evaluates the Navy’s 2018 Shipyard...
Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) observe as the ship pulls into Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., on Aug. 5, 2017. US Navy photo.
The Navy is creating “digital twins” of its four public shipyards so engineers can conduct modeling and simulation and identify ideal new configurations for the yards to boost productivity.
As part of its 20-year, $21-billion effort to modernize and optimize the four yards, the Navy is in the early stages of this...
Sailors watch as the portside anchor of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is lowered into a dry dock for maintenance on March 15, 2019. US Navy Photo
The Navy released its first-ever long-range ship maintenance and modernization plan amid a growing fleet and a growing backlog of repair work, and the report highlights challenges in dealing with chronic mismatches between maintenance requirements and yards’ capacity.
The report, Report to Congress on the Long-Range Plan for...
https://news.usni.org/2019/03/21/navy-needs-dry-docks-repairs-says-first-ever-maintenance-report
The following is the executive summary to Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) shipyard optimization plan, which lays out a 20-year, $21-billion plan to improve the four public shipyards. The full report will not be released to the public, and the redacted summary was released on Sept. 12.
Executive Summary
The Navy’s four public shipyards – Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and...