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Major Fire Drill Exercise Ship’s Force firefighters battle a simulated class alpha fire aboard USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) during a major fire drill April 29. The drill tested emergency response Page 8 readiness of personnel, procedures and equipment from Gunston Hall, City of Norfolk Fire and Emergency Services and Marine Hydraulic International shipyard. (U.S. Navy Photo by Damage Controlman 3rd Class Hannah Sweet/Released) The Maintainer • Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center • Volume 10 | Issue 5 | May 2019 Featured Stories The Maintainer is the official Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center publication. All comments of this publication do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Department of the Navy. This is a monthly newsletter and the deadline for submission of articles is the fifth of each month. Correspondence should be directed to Public Affairs, Code 1100P, Building LF-18 or email: [email protected]. Gold Disk Award Winner ET2 Dustin Powell - Powell repaired nearly 60 CCAs during the first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019, and he recently received notice that his work during the second quarter of FY19 has earned him 6 an additional award. MARMC Leads Completion of Monterey SRA - MARMC provided oversight for the Chief of Naval Operations availability, which was contracted to Marine Hydraulics International (MHI) in Norfolk, Virginia, in September 2018, with a work package that included tank work; extensive structural repairs; Consolidated 10 Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) modifications; intake repairs and more items. Production Department’s Outside Machine Shop: Jack of All Trades - With so many jobs coming and going from the Outside Machine Shop, one might ask – what exactly do the Sailors and civilians in the shop specialize in? If you ask the shop’s Leading Petty Officer and 2019 Senior Sailor of the 2nd Quarter, Machinist 16 Mate 1st Class Stephanie Faenza, she will tell you they do a little bit of everything. MARMC Introduces New Critical Path Method Course “The Plan” for Success - On-time delivery is one of Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center’s (MARMC) top priorities, and it is vital to the Navy’s operational sustainability. The command constantly looks for ways to improve its ability to complete maintenance in a 18 timely manner in order to maintain fleet mission readiness. MARMC Employees Volunteer at Mid-Atlantic Regional ROV Competition - MARMC has long been a supporter of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Volunteers from MARMC’s STEM outreach program spend one-hour each week teaching STEM curriculum at four local schools – Norview Middle School, James Blair Middle School and Ruffner Middle School in Norfolk, Va, and 19 Heritage High School in Newport News, VA. 2 Straight Talk With Capt. Lannamann Greetings Team MARMC, bearing with the construction zones as to remember that we can only make a our Facilities Division carries out the hard positive impact by staying focused and This year has been moving at a rapid task of making these spaces comfortable working smart. pace and we have continued to watch our and a suitable work environment for all. workload grow. As is often the case, there Additionally, the refurbishment of the The 101 days of summer is quickly is a lot of work that takes place behind the male and female heads on Main Street is approaching. As the warmer days set scenes in order to facilitate our mission of nearing completion and can be expected in, many of you are grilling, going to fixing ships. We cannot fix ships if we don’t to reopen mid to late June. the beach, opening your pools and have the right people in the right place at spending more time outside. It is vital the right times. Because of the hard work On-Time Delivery of ships from that you adhere to your safety protocols performed by the Corporate Operation’s availabilities is Vice Adm. Moore’s number in order to avoid injuries. Wear sunblock, Security Division, we are able to properly one mission priority. This is an extremely maintain your grills and ensure you drink credential our employees and those who difficult challenge for us. On average we responsibly if you choose to drink during work alongside MARMC in assisting the have been working around 20 or more your off-duty time. With the availability of fleet and get them on the pier or into the availabilities at any given time over the such companies as Uber and Lyft, there shipyard expeditiously. This proves to me past two years. MARMC is only staffed to is no reason any of our personnel should the sense of pride each of our personnel manage roughly 12 availabilities at a time. find themselves behind the wheel of their take in their daily work. Couple that with local shipyard industry car after imbibing alcohol. I want you all to only having the capability for about 15 enjoy yourselves, but let’s be responsible When people think of MARMC, they tend availabilities and you can see why this has and make it through the rest of the year to focus on our Production Department been such a busy and hectic time for the without incident. making repairs, Waterfront Operations command and industry. It is important to executing contract oversight, Contracts understand that this is not going away. Your efforts and willingness to go the extra awarding solicitations and technical The demand from the expansion of the mile are what continue to make MARMC assistance provided by our Engineering fleet and the continuous troubleshooting the premier RMC in the world. I appreciate Department. All of this is extremely to understand the material readiness and your devotion to our mission and I hope important work and a large reason why our condition of these ships is only growing you all find time to enjoy the month ahead! command exists, but the unsung heroes in in importance and criticality. I want to our Corporate Operations Department are reiterate the point that there is a mountain Sincerely, doing outstanding things every day that of work ahead of us, but it is important Capt. Dan Lannamann make the wheels turn in the background at the command. I thank you all for the dedication and professionalism you provide day-in and day-out. Many of you in Building LF-18 have noticed more construction and refurbishment of spaces as we finalize the push to bring our Contract Department to the command headquarters. Collocation 101 of the command started a few years back as part of MARMC’s Strategic Business Plan and it has really begun to pay off this year. Having department heads and their teams available to meet face to face on short notice has helped to mitigate problems and find swift resolutions to Days of issues we have come up against. The second deck of Building CEP-200 is also under construction in anticipation of creating a space for us to put our pod maintenance team concept into action. Having this collocation provides continuity Summer as the Maintenance Teams work through an availability and then move from one project to the next. I want to thank you all for your patience as we temporarily relocate some of you and for your 3 CHALLENGE THE NORM Notes from the Executive Director s we continue to look at ways begun to make me think about what are efficiency should look like and giving them we can challenge the norm our most important business practices, the tools to make the analysis will allow us in 2019, I want to make sure who do we have on board and how am I to challenge the normal practices of those that all Mid-Atlantic Regional setting up the command for success? If the industry partners that we interact with AMaintenance Center (MARMC) personnel new norm is that MARMC is handling 20 or on a daily basis. The end goal is to build are also still using the tried and true more availabilities at any given time, then even stronger partnerships with industry method of discussing ideas with your the answers to these questions are critical where we are aligned all the way down the chain of command. Using your chain of to the command’s improvement. With that, board when it comes to how to execute command may not be challenging the I am now starting to challenge the normal maintenance and modernization. It is a norm in itself, but your direct leadership operations here at the command. There vital step in meeting our priority of on-time can help you make impactful changes and are around 3,000 employees at MARMC delivery and there will be a lot of learning help further your discussion up the chain if and I need to take a look at how we are and challenging requirements along the it is warranted. With our Strategic Business utilizing everyone on the team and realign way. Plan (SBP), collectively MARMC has come folks closer to the critical path where they up with a myriad of ways to effect change can have the most impact on our mission. Over the next few weeks I will be working and challenge the norm, but a simple This can be a slow process, but as the closely with the Executive Leadership conversation with your supervisor can command loses folks due to attrition Council and the Public Affairs Office also prove very effective. Use the people maybe we look at filling those billets in to relaunch MARMC’s SBP initiatives. who you work most closely with to bounce areas where we are seeing a bottle neck Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) your ideas off of and help impact positive of tasking occur.