Utrecht, Netherlands, headquartered heavy lift specialist Mammoet is to play a key role in the Navy’s largest maritime infrastructure construction project since World War II, the planned five-year Pearl Harbor dry dock replacement project.
Under the project, as we reported earlier, a new graving dock, Dry Dock 5, is being built. Capable of servicing Virginia-class submarine, it will replace the shipyard’s smaller Dry Dock 3, which was...
Two submarines enter dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. US Navy photo.
The four dry docks that the Navy shut down in Puget Sound to shore them up against seismic threats should be available for submarine maintenance by July, Navy officials told the Senate on Tuesday.
In two separate hearings, service leaders told senators the extra work is to provide additional support to the walls of the dry docks in case of a seismic event.
The four dry docks – three at Puget Sound Naval...
Two submarines enter dry dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. US Navy photo.
SAN DIEGO – The Navy started work on two Washington state submarine dry docks that the service shuttered last month over fears of earthquake damage, USNI News learned.
Late last month, the service closed four dry docks – three at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., and the delta pier at the Trident Refit Facility in Bangor, Wash.
On Feb. 10, the Navy issued...
https://news.usni.org/2023/02/16/navy-starts-80m-project-to-reinforce-four-puget-sound-dry-docks
The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN-717) arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a port visit in January 2017. US Navy photo.
Four dry docks the Navy uses to overhaul nuclear submarines in Washington are temporarily closed after the service found they are at risk for earthquake damage, service officials told USNI News on Thursday.
The dry docks, three at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., and the delta pier at the Trident...
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) is dry-docked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) in Portsmouth, Virginia, on April 23, 2019. US Navy Photo
The Navy’s cost estimates for modernizing dry docks in its four public shipyards ‘have been wildly off point,” Diana Maurer, the director of defense capabilities in the General Accountability Office, testified on Tuesday.
She was referring to GAO’s latest report on the Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan released this week and a...
Sailors and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) workers load a crash and salvage crane onto the flight deck of Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) on June 22, 2021. US Navy Photo
The Navy issued the first contracts to companies that will compete for about $8 billion worth of military construction projects at shipyards in Hawaii and Washington state, two of its four public shipyards long overdue for modernization that can support...
Pre-commissioning unit (PCU) Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795) seen prior to a christening ceremony at General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard facility in Groton, Conn., on July 31, 2021. US Navy Photo
The Navy has tapped a trio of admirals to lead three new program offices as part of a restructuring in how the service will manage its submarine programs going forward, according to a Wednesday announcement from the service. Additionally, the service has appointed a flag officer to oversee the Navy’s...