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EB News Mar 04 APRIL 2010 SUBMARINE MISSOURI MARKS ANOTHER MILESTONE t 8 a.m. on Friday, April 16, Sonar Technician ASeaman Benjamin Bow - ers of Ionia, Mo., raised a flag over the Missouri (SSN-780) as Fire Control Technician 2nd Class Ryan Thruston of Jefferson City, Mo., saluted sharply. “It really gives you an apprecia - tion for how much they have accelerated the build cycle,” to see the ship reaching ‘in-service’ so early, said Cmdr. Timothy Rexrode, who took command of Missouri July 10, 2009. In service means Electric Boat transfers operational control to continued on page 10 The submarine Missouri (SSN-780) is placed in service earlier this month as members of the ship’s crew look on (upper left). INSIDE Navy Commissions USS New Mexico, Marine Systems Roundup • 6 Ethics • 10 Service Award s • 11 Sixth Virginia-Class Submarine • 2 General Dynamics Reports General Dynamics Appoints Safety Performanc e • 12 Welcome To Electric Boat • 3 First-Quarter 2010 Results • 7 New Senior VP • 10 Retirees • 6 Health Matters • 8 / 9 The sixth Virginia-class submarine, USS New Mexico (SSN-779), was commissioned last month during a ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk. New Mexico will be homeported in Groton. In the background is USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77). Navy Commissions USS New Mexico, Sixth Virginia-Class Submarine SS New Mexico (SSN-779), the sixth submarine of the Virginia Class, became the newest ship in the Navy’s fleet last month during a commissioning ceremony at Norfolk UNaval Station. “USS New Mexico joining the Fleet is a testament to the hard work, ingenuity, and dedication of our superb shipbuilding partners at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Elec - tric Boat," said Rear Adm. William Hilarides, program executive officer for submarines. “Our ship - building team continues to deliver these tremendous boats ahead of schedule, and on budget.” Virginia-class submarines are designed to dominate both littoral and deep waters, while conduct - continued on page 3 2 I April 2010 I ELECTRIC BOAT NEW S ing anti-submarine; anti-surface ship; strike; special operation forces; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; irregular warfare; and mine warfare missions. “The commissioning of USS New Mexico continues the pro - gram's record of bringing capability to the Fleet ahead of sched - ule. As the construction rate ramps up to two submarines per year starting in 2011, we begin to USS New Mexico joining the even more rapidly recapitalize the Navy's attack submarine force. It's Dan Barrett , Fleet is a testament to the hard critical to maintain the two-per-year Editor work, ingenuity, and dedication rate in order to achieve the Navy's Bob Gallo, force structure requirements,” said Gary Slater, ‘‘ of our superb shipbuilding Capt. Michael Jabaley, Virginia-class Gary Hall, program manager. Photography partners at Northrop Grumman The commissioning was the most Electric Boat News is Shipbuilding and General recent in a series of Virginia-class published monthly by the events that occurred over the last Public Affairs Department, Dynamics Electric Boat. Our year. These include California's 75 Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT 06340 shipbuilding team continues to (SSN-781) keel-laying ceremony May 1, 2009; USS Texas (SSN-775) Phone (860) 433-8202 deliver these tremendous boats completing the class's first Arctic Fax (860) 433-8054 Ocean testing in November 2009; ahead of schedule, and on Email [email protected] the transfer of USS Hawaii (SSN- budget. 776) and Texas to their new Pearl Harbor homeport in July and — Rear Adm. William Hilarides November 2009, respectively; and Program executive officer Missouri's (SSN-780) christening for submarines ceremony Dec. 5, 2009. New Mex - ’ico’ was delivered Dec. 29, 2009, four months ahead of its con - tract delivery date. The commissioning of USS New Mexico was the first major submarine event of 2010. Upcoming program events include the keel-laying ceremony for Mississippi (SSN-782) in June, and the delivery and commissioning of Missouri in June and July, respectively. Please help welcome the following WELCOME TO employees, who have recently joined ELECTRIC BOAT the company: 330 Bryan Harris 414 Brian Clark 428 Douglas Wiswell 448 Alden Wheeler 493 Nicholas Behlman Lauren Swiatek Catherine Cronk David Grant Mary Wright Adam Koppel 433 Arthur Clites 449 Sarah Kelsall Sean Zandan Alexander Merlo Kevin Sammartino 650 Edward Seymour 412 Nathan Catania Richard SeMon Diana Spranklin 416 Nicholas Lau 462 Andrew Cass 413 Michael Chonjnowski 434 Jason Moreno 660 Rachelle Cyr Chase Davis 427 Timothy Chemacki 463 Andrew Rogers Miteshkumar Patel Bryan Clodfelter 435 Bryan McCormick Philip Opaleski Alexander Enwonwu 492 Paul Brewster Evan White ELECTRIC BOAT NEW S I April 2010 I 3 From left, Pat Stevens, Rich Dennome, Joe Gross, Charlie Montalbano and Barry Lee. Not pictured: Mike Theriault. Process Improvement Aids Accuracy Control Group ost of us are familiar with time. Multiple computer systems were what happens when our being used to manage the accuracy con - Mautomobiles are not prop - trol liabilities, and the cost of generating erly aligned. The steering wheel shakes. an accuracy control or Shipyard Weld It becomes difficult to keep the car on Statusing System (SWSS) report was the road. And the tires wear out quickly. increasing. In the submarine business, alignment Joe Gross, a new member of the is a critical process in the construction Accuracy Control group, was busy and operation of the most complex bringing the drawing requirements for machine on earth. Electric Boat has the Accuracy Control through the normal tools and the people that form one of process, loading SWSS information and the most proficient accuracy-control other data, while receiving on-the-job groups in the shipbuilding industry. training from co-workers Rich Den - The Accuracy Control Group at EB is nome and Barry Lee. responsible for ensuring that hull sec - Gross, who previously worked in tions are on target. When the joining of require the utmost attention. planning developing Virginia-class work sections begins, group members establish Last summer, Supervisor Charlie Mon - methods, noticed a significant contrast cut lines to support the construction of talbano began considering methods to between SWSS lines loading in the plan - piping, electrical and other systems criti - improve and evaluate requirements influ - ning group and the method used by cal to the operation of the ship. Tor - encing the Accuracy Control organization. Accuracy Control. pedo-launch systems, another area of The procedures and systems support - This was the impetus behind an effort the ship where alignment is critical, ing the process had become complex over to find a better way – in this case, a 4 I April 2010 I ELECTRIC BOAT NEW S The involvement of the Green Belts Gross and Stevens was another impor - tant factor in the success of the effort. “With their facilitation and process map - ping skills, Joe and Pat helped the team understand the bottlenecks in the exist - ing process and where the opportunities to eliminate those bottlenecks existed,” said Lee. According to Dennome, “This process improvement sets the stage for the next ship design by eliminating much of the paper previously generated on Virginia Class. This was a minor change for Vir - ginia Class, but it will be very important to the shipyard when we go to two boats Otto Bode at his Quonset Point office. per year.” When asked to describe the highlight process improvement project to stream - ing place, and nervousness about the out - of the project, Gross replied, “The day line Accuracy Control’s electronic data - come,” Dennome said. “We were con - we completed the project and issued the base. vinced that the current process was OK, directive to stop generating the non-value The objectives: select the Accuracy and we challenged the trainees’ abilities.” added paperwork and associated data Control outputs with the highest poten - Mike Theriault, a team member on the entry made it clear to me the objective tial for savings; reduce span time by mod - project, provided some background on was met.” ifying an Accuracy Control construction the old process. Stevens added, “The experience of procedure data sheet; reduce the cost of “At the start of the Virginia-class pro - working this project was very rewarding. revisions from six hours to two hours and gram we developed drawing rules based As a relatively new MDA-represented reduce revision A costs from 13.5 hours on the way we were doing business. Back employee, I recognized that working with to 8.75 hours by December 2009. then we didn’t have the ability to see the this team was a rare opportunity. I can With a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt non-value added steps that were being bring what I learned from this experience training class about to begin, the timing instituted into the process. Until this back into design.” couldn’t have been better. Gross was project, we always managed that extra Jeff Bregitzer, a Black Belt in Process assigned a seat in the class. “When I saw baggage despite the fact it was adding no Engineering and the mentor assigned to that Charlie Montalbano was the process value to the job at hand,” he said. By fol - assist Gross and Stevens, provided his owner I didn’t hesitate to reserve a seat,” lowing the structured Lean Six Sigma perspective: “This team did an excep - said Deneen Thaxton, director of Process methodology, however, the team was able tional job at completing the project. Engineering. “Charlie has always worked to clearly understand the inner workings They met their objectives, and were great closely with Process Engineering, so we of the process then in place. “The struc - to work with.” knew this was going to be a worthwhile tured approach was beneficial,” he said.
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