The warship USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transits the Elizabeth River to Norfolk Naval Shipyard to undertake a docking prepared step-by-step schedule. (UNITED STATE Navy picture by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Dakota L. David)
A Navy Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) program workplace established in June in 2015 goes to service creating, shows and also carrying out the Navy’s recapitalization prepare for its 4 public shipyards.
The 4 shipyards– Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va.; Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Me.; Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and also Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Wash.; and also Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and also Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii– were initially created and also integrated in the 19th and also 20th centuries to sustain building and construction of sail and also conventionally-powered ships utilizing commercial designs of the moment. As an outcome, they are not set up to preserve and also improve the nuclear-powered warship and also submarines these days or tomorrow.
The brand-new program workplace, PMS-555, is collaborating with Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) and also Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) to recapitalize and also improve the facilities at the 4 shipyards.
PMS-555 is staffed by experts from NAVSEA, CNIC and also NAVFAC that includ commercial designers, procedure enhancement experts, centers designers, governing conformity experts, calculated and also monetary experts, civil designer corps policemans, building and construction supervisors and also building and construction schedulers.
DIGITAL DOUBLE
The very first turning point PMS-555 is arranged to attain is the advancement of a “digital twin” of the marine shipyards. This will certainly be a digital depiction of the shipyards that will certainly be utilized to perform modeling and also simulations of the shipyard setting to assist in examinations and also choices for the future shipyard facilities. The program workplace is additionally creating approaches to attend to historical conservation and also ecological conformity throughout the recapitalization initiative.
Formally, the recapitalization strategy is called the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIP]]
“The Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan articulated a vision that shipyard infrastructure has three interdependent components: the dry docks, the facilities, and the capital equipment; and that these configurations are fundamentally linked to the shipyards’ ability to execute the mission they are tasked to do,” stated Steven Lagana, PMS-555 program supervisor. “We are utilizing modeling and simulation as a tool to integrate these components to better inform the desired infrastructure layout. Through this, the Navy will be in a better position to make meaningful, long-lasting investments that not only address the condition of the facilities and equipment but also change the way the work is conducted. Once we’re finished, the Navy will recover more than 300,000 work days per year, every year.”
The program workplace is organizing its very first market day April 8 at the Washington Navy Yard.
“We’re sold out,” statedLagana “We have more than 100 companies from 19 states and the District of Columbia who are coming to hear about the program and see how they can be part of this once-in-a-century team that will deliver the shipyards the Navy needs.”
“The Navy relies on NAVSEA to deliver combat-ready ships and submarines out of planned maintenance availabilities on time,” stated NAVSEACommander Vice Adm Tom Moore. “Modernizing our four naval shipyards — a massive task under any circumstance — is critical because it’s the only way we will be able to meet our future mission requirements.”
