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The Trim Pump can now be found at http://www.wildbill631g.com/ US Navy commissions its last Block III transmit information by quantum communications across Virginia submarine thirty meters of “turbulent” water. The researchers were able to send 72 kilobits of data per second—or the David B. Larter , Defense News .com April 9 WASHINGTON — The last of the U.S. Navy’s eight Block III equivalent of 4,600 characters per second. Although the Virginia-class submarines has joined the fleet, according to method has been used to send and receive data through a Navy news release. water in the past, it has been used across calm water and The attack submarine Delaware didn’t have its formal not necessarily water representative of a real-world marine commissioning ceremony because of the ongoing environment. coronavirus outbreak, but it will nonetheless start getting Quantum communications is the practical ready to enter the deployment rotation. application of quantum theory to create a super-secure The Block III replaced 12 vertical launch tubes for means of communication. With current digital data Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles with two larger 87-inch transmission methods, it is possible for a third party to diameter tubes able to fire larger payloads, each housing hack an exchange of data without being detected. The six TLAMs. nature of quantum communications makes it possible to The first Block IV, the attack submarine Vermont, is slated to be commissioned later this month. The Block IV subs know immediately if hackers are trying to compromise a primarily add reliability features to the boat that should secure data stream. increase its life span. Quantum communications would be—at least for The Block V, which was awarded last year, adds acoustics now—pretty slow. Although 4,600 characters per second upgrades. Eight of the boats will have the Virginia Payload sounds like a lot, sending ordinary words in binary 0s and Module. The VPM is designed to triple the Tomahawk 1s balloons their size considerably. The word “Hello” in cruise missile capacity of the Virginia-class subs, a move binary becomes designed to offset the pending retirement of the Ohio-class “0100100001100101011011000110110001101111000011 guided-missile subs, which have a 154-Tomahawk 0100001010” at a total of 56 characters. This article so far capacity. Each Virginia Payload Module sub will have a 40- amounts to 19,656 characters in binary, or about 5 seconds Tomahawk loadout. of quantum communications at the current rate of data ************************************************** transmission. Quantum Communication Could Make U.S. Subs But one group that could especially use this new Even More Deadly quantum communications technology: nuclear Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics Online, April 23 submariners. The U.S. Navy operates 14 Ohio-class ballistic University researchers have discovered that missile submarines, with at least five to six at sea at any quantum communications are possible with submerged given time. A typical deterrent patrol lasts an average of 70 objects in turbulent water. The revelation means it might days, during which time the submarines do their best to someday be possible for the National Command Authority hide in the vastness of the world’s oceans and await orders to use quantum communications to securely communicate to fire their missiles. with underwater submarines, particularly those that make An Ohio-class submarine at sea is America’s ace in up part of the nuclear triad. the hole, ensuring that hundreds of nuclear warheads can According to IEEE Spectrum, researchers at the survive a surprise nuclear attack on the U.S. The idea is that University of Ottawa have demonstrated their ability to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FROM PAGE ONE Navy Targets Sub-Launched Hypersonic Test this strategy deters an enemy from launching an attack By Mid 2020s in the first place. All of this makes secure, reliable Paul McCleary, Breaking Defense.com, April 10 communications with submarines extremely important. WASHINGTON: The Navy plans to test its A third party that could read messages between the developmental hypersonic missile from a submarine by “boomers” at sea and the Pentagon could determine the mid-2020s, and is pushing the burgeoning program their position and sink them. through a series of static tests this year to demonstrate Quantum communications is far from technologies as it gears up to equipping its Virginia- broadband-level bandwidth, but it is enough to send class submarines with the weapon. “Our goal is to have an early capability in the mid ‘20s,” simple, coded messages to submarines at sea. China is said Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director of the Navy’s also reportedly looking into quantum communications Strategic Systems Programs. “We’re trying to take a to communicate with its submarines, and other methodical approach to this, as we work through this to undersea nuclear powers will likely follow suit. make sure we get it right.” The weapon is being developed through a ********************************************* unique partnership between the Navy and Army, in Thought of the Week which the Army buys the glide body for both services, while the Navy buys the rocket booster. After rounds of "Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way joint tests, like the successful launch last month, each that everybody believes he got the biggest piece." service will customize the missile for its own particular --- Sherry Rothfield needs: the Army plans to field a battery of four truck- borne launchers in 2023 while the Navy will take a few more years to work out the more complicated design ********************************************* specifications of a sea-launched version set to fly from Gabriel came to the Lord and said, "I have to Virginia-class submarines. talk to you. We have some Sub Sailors up here who arc Late last month, the two services launched their causing problems. They're swinging on the pearly gates. Common Hypersonic Glide Body from the Pacific Missile my horn is missing, breakfast SOS is all over their robes, Range in Hawaii. It was the second successful test of the they're racing the chariots, and they're wearing dixie C-HGB, about a year-and-a-half after the first test in cups and piss cutters instead of their halos. They refuse October 2017. to keep the ladder to heaven clean. There are beer cans For the rest of this year, the Navy is doubling all over the place. Some of them are walking around down on its boosters, conducting a series of static fire with just one wing." tests to collect data before another test firing. “We’ve been crawling. Now we’re starting to walk where we’re The Lord said, "Sub Sailors are Submariners, going to get the booster design done — we’re going to Gabriel. Heaven is home to all my children. If you want static test this year — and then we will start to truly, to know about real problems, call the Devil." truly run,” Wolfe said. The Devil answered the phone, "Hello? Hold on a In the fiscal 2021 budget request, the Navy minute." The Devil returned to the phone, "O.K., I'm asked for $1 billion to fund work on the Conventional back. What can I do for you?" Prompt Strike program. Budget documents said the Gabriel replied, "I just want to know what kind of program will “enable precise and timely strike problems you're having down there." capability in contested environments across surface and The Devil said, "Hold on again. I need to check sub-surface platforms.” It targeted fiscal 2028 for on something." fielding on a Virginia-class submarine with Virginia After about 5 minutes the Devil returned to the Payload Module. Placing the weapon on Virginia subs would allow the US phone and said. "I'm back. Now what was the to strike any target anywhere on the planet within question?" minutes, giving the Navy an unprecedented quick-strike Gabriel said, "What kind of problems are you punch that would help in contested environments having down there?" around the first island chain in the Pacific, where the The Devil said, "Man. I don't believe this....Hold Chinese buildup has most concerned the US and its on." This time the Devil was gone 15 minutes. He allies. returned and said "I'm sorry Gabriel, I can't talk right The Virginia Payload Module gives the now. Those damn A-Gangers have put out my fire and submarines space for 28 additional missile tubes, for a are trying to install air conditioning." total of 40 missiles per boat. The additional missile tubes will help the Navy fill part of the gap that will be left when the four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines begin leaving the fleet in the mid-2020s. Report on the Columbia-class Nuclear • the potential impact of the Columbia-class program on funding that will be available for other Navy programs, Ballistic Missile Submarine Program including other shipbuilding programs; and Staff, USNI, May 20 • potential industrial-base challenges of building both The Columbia (SSBN-826) class program is a program to Columbia-class boats and Virginia-class attack submarines design and build a class of 12 new ballistic missile (SSNs) at the same time. submarines (SSBNs) to replace the Navy’s current force of ********************************************* 14 aging Ohio-class SSBNs. The Navy has identified the Have You Heard? Columbia-class program as the Navy’s top priority program. The Navy wants to procure the first Columbia- class boat in FY2021. Research and development work on Words the program has been underway for several years, and 1. The meaning of opaque is unclear. advance procurement (AP) funding for the first boat began 2. I wasn't going to get a brain transplant but then I in FY2017. The Navy’s proposed FY2021 budget requests changed my mind. $2,891.5 million (i.e., about $2.9 billion) in procurement 3. Have you ever tried to eat a clock? It's very time funding, $1,123.2 million (i.e., about $1.1 billion) in consuming. advance procurement (AP) funding, and $397.3 million in research and development funding for the program. 4. A man tried to assault me with milk, cream and The Navy’s FY2021 budget submission estimates the butter. How dairy! procurement cost of the first Columbia- class boat at 5. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it $14,393.4 million (i.e., about $14.4 billion) in then-year down. dollars, including $6,007.8 million (i.e., about $6.0 billion) 6. If there was someone selling marijuana in our in costs for plans, meaning (essentially) the detail neighborhood, weed know about it. design/non- recurring engineering (DD/NRE) costs for the 7. It's a lengthy article about ancient Japanese sword Columbia class. (It is a longstanding Navy budgetary practice to incorporate the DD/NRE costs for a new class fighters but I can Sumurais it for you. of ship into the total procurement cost of the first ship in 8. It's not that the man couldn't juggle, he just didn't the class.) Excluding costs for plans, the estimated hands- have the balls to do it. on construction cost of the first ship is $8,385.7 million 9. So what if I don't know the meaning of the word (i.e., about $8.4 billion). The boat has received $6,227.8 'apocalypse'? It's not the end of the world. million (i.e., about $6.2 billion) in prior-year AP funding. 10. Police were called to the daycare center. A 3-year The Navy’s proposed FY2021 budget requests $2,891.5 old was resisting a rest. million in procurement funding, and the remaining $5,274.2 million (i.e., about $5.3 billion) in procurement 11. The other day I held the door open for a clown. I funding needed to complete the boat’s total estimated thought it was a nice jester. procurement cost of $14,393.4 million is to be requested in 12. Need an ark to save two of every animal? I Noah FY2022 and FY2023. guy. The Navy wants to procure the second Columbia-class boat 13. Alternative facts are aversion of the truth. in FY2024. The Navy’s FY2021 budget submission 14. I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it. estimates the procurement cost of this boat at $9,326.1 15. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. million (i.e., about $9.3 billion) in then-year dollars. The Navy’s proposed FY2021 budget requests $1,123.2 million 16. Did you know they won't be making yardsticks any in AP funding for the Columbia-class program, of which longer? $1,028.0 million (i.e., about $1.0 billion) is for the second 17. I used to be allergic to soap but I'm clean now. boat and $95.2 million is for the third and subsequent 18. The patron saint of poverty is St. Nickeless. boats in the program. 19. What did the man say when the bridge fell on him? The Navy’s FY2021 budget submission estimates the total The suspension is killing me. procurement cost of the 12-ship class at $109.8 billion in 20. Do you have weight loss mantras? Fat chants! then-year dollars. Issues for Congress for the Columbia-class program 21. My tailor is happy to make a new pair of pants for include the following: me. Or sew it seams. • the risk—due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation, 22. What is a thesaurus's favorite dessert? Synonym technical challenges, and/or funding-related issues— of a buns. delay in designing and building the lead Columbia-class 23. A relief map shows where the restrooms are. boat, which could put at risk the Navy’s ability to have the 24. There was a big paddle sale at the boat store. It boat ready for its first scheduled deterrent patrol in 2031, was quite an oar deal. when it is to deploy in the place of the first retiring Ohio- class SSBN; 25. How do they figure out the price of hammers? Per • whether the Navy has accurately priced the work it is pound. proposing to do in the Columbia-class program in FY2021; • the risk of cost growth in the program; Senate Bill Would Fund Second Virginia-Class Sub Cotton’s bill also specifically provides in 2021 “funding for the Navy to replace the [hospital ships] Richard R. Burgess, Seapower Magazine Online, April 23 USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy with new American- built vessels. This would be an opportunity to provide ARLINGTON, Va. -- A member of the Senate Armed American jobs and grow the American industrial base Services Committee has introduced a $43 billion bill to for the future,” the bill summary said. strengthen U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific to counter ****************************************** Chinese competition and that would fund, among other NAVSEA Says Attack Sub Repairs Much Improved things, some of the U.S. Navy’s priorities on its as USS Boise Enters Yard Following 4-Year Wait unfunded list, including a second Virginia-class attack Megan Eckstein, USNI News, May 26 submarine. The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced the Forging Boise (SSN 764) enters Souda Bay, Greece, during a Operational Resistance to Chinese Expansion (FORCE) scheduled port visit on Dec. 23, 2014. Boise conducted naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of Act on April 22, which his office said is a “critical responsibility in support of U.S. national security investment in the United States’ ability to compete with interests in Europe during its last deployment that China.” ended in January 2015 — and the submarine has been The bill would include “$6.1 billion to regain the awaiting a maintenance availability ever since, due to advantage in the Indo-Pacific region; $9.2 billion in limited capacity in public and private yards. US Navy capability increases for Great Power Competition; $11 photo. billion for mitigating coronavirus impacts to After years of struggling to conduct attack procurement programs; $3.3 billion for mitigating submarine maintenance – with the four public naval coronavirus impacts to [the] defense industrial base; shipyards prioritizing SSN work last, behind a backlog $1.5 billion for hospital ship recapitalization; [and] $12.0 of ballistic-missile sub and aircraft carrier work, and billion to enhance national resilience and critical private shipyards finding it tough to resume submarine repair work after years of only doing new construction infrastructure.” – the Navy appears back on track for its SSN The bill would provide $3.9 billion to upgrade maintenance, the head of Naval Sea Systems Command naval lethality, a summary of the bill said, including told USNI News. funds for: The move of attack submarine USS Boise (SSN- •A second fiscal 2021 Virginia-class submarine. 764) to the dry dock at Newport News Shipbuilding in •Virginia-class submarine industrial base expansion. Virginia is the most visible sign of things moving in the •Subsea and seabed warfare capability for the Virginia right direction, after the sub has been sitting pier side at class. nearby Norfolk Naval Shipyard for more than four years •Advanced procurement for the Columbia-class waiting for maintenance to begin. ballistic-missile submarine The Navy had previously hoped to get Boise •Additional Naval Strike Missiles and their launchers. into Newport News as early as 2018, but the private yard struggled with its first two Los Angeles-class SSN •Integration of the long-range air-to-surface missiles on maintenance periods – for USS Helena (SSN-725) and all combat aircraft. USS Columbus (SSN-762) – and didn’t have the room for •Additional sonobuoys for anti-submarine warfare. the sub or the workforce to start working on it. As Boise •Marine Corps modernization, including ground-based lingered, it became a focal point in the discussion about anti-ship missiles. a lack of repair capacity and a backup of work at the The bill also would fund adding hypersonic four public naval shipyards. weapons on compatible fighter aircraft and accelerating But, NAVSEA Commander Vice Adm. Tom development of directed energy weapons and cyber Moore told USNI News, the Navy is moving into a new offensive and defensive capabilities. era of on-time submarine maintenance. Also provided in the bill would be $4.88 billion USS Boise (SSN 764) arrived at Huntington to the Navy and Marine Corps to “provide emergency Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division to begin its 25-month extended engineering overhaul aid for those programs that are most vulnerable” to on June 18, 2018, but ultimately had to return to Naval mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Station Norfolk to continue awaiting maintenance including funds for shipbuilding and conversion; the because there was no room at Newport News for the Columbia-class submarine industrial base; aircraft sub amid two other boats’ maintenance overruns. procurement; operations and maintenance; and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ photo. research, development, test and evaluation. What went wrong with Boise? CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 FROM PAGE 4 Newport News was due to delays in Helena and Boise returned home from its last deployment Columbus coming out of Newport News, which he in January 2015 and was set to start maintenance attributed to “some basic fundamental blocking and during Fiscal Year 2016. Instead, Norfolk Naval tackling that they’ve got to get better at.” A Newport Shipyard was too backed up to take on the attack boat. News official told USNI News on background that week Prioritized ahead of Boise was ballistic-missile that the private yard didn’t have the benefit of decades submarine refueling, aircraft carrier maintenance, and a of lessons learned on LA-class submarine repair work: submarine conversion project to turn decommissioned while the four public yards share best practices, lists of submarines into Moored Training Ships to train new extra materials to keep on hand, likely growth work sailors to operate and maintain reactors at the Nuclear areas and more, Newport News wasn’t given any of that Power Training Unit. kind of information to inform its planning and execution The Navy then made plans to put Boise into a on Helena and Columbus. private yard repair at either General Dynamics Electric Moore acknowledged in last week’s interview Boat or Newport News Shipbuilding, the two yards that that that had happened accidentally but that NAVSEA build submarines – but neither yard had the capacity to was taking a wholly different approach with Boise. do the work before FY 2019, USNI News reported in “We’ve made SUBMEPP [Submarine Maintenance 2017. Engineering, Planning and Procurement] available to Newport News ultimately won the contract but show them the products that we use. We’ve made then saw additional delays due to challenges juggling Portsmouth Naval Shipyard available. We’ve provided two other repair contracts for Helena and Columbus. them all the documentation that we use when we’re Moore told USNI News in an interview last week that “I getting ready to plan for a submarine availability, think we are well-positioned on Boise, certainly way including integrated master schedules, resource- better than we were on Helena and Columbus, when we constrained schedules that show by trade, by time how learned so many lessons the hard way: that, one, they many resources you would expect to see for a typical hadn’t done submarine work in 10 years, and I think we EOH (engineered overhaul), which is what Boise is. It underestimated how they had atrophied in that skill set, really basically is to set them up to better expect what’s and I think they did as well; and the other thing is, I coming into the availability,” Moore said. think we recognized that we probably put too much on NAVSEA also beefed up the Supervisor of their plate, with multiple availabilities on their plate at Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP) at Newport News and one time.” connected the yard with former project Moore made clear that the Newport News superintendents from the public yards who could help Shipbuilding workforce were experts in ship assist in the planning process. The NAVSEA 07 maintenance, saying they excel at the most complex submarine lifecycle management organization is also ship maintenance work the U.S. Navy has ever done: spending quite a bit of time with Newport News, Moore refueling and overhauling aircraft carriers. But in the said. And NAVSEA has helped the yard apply a decade since the yard has done submarine repair work, contracting and planning model used on carrier RCOHs he said they lost their expertise in some submarine- where each work item is broken up into the resources specific skills, specifically the documentation required and cost needed, and the Navy and contractor agree to under the SUBSAFE program that ultimately allows the those along the way to reach a final contract that is as Navy to certify the sub to dive again. realistic as possible. The Navy needs Newport News Shipbuilding to be a “All they had to do was ask, but we didn’t provider of submarine repair work, and the private recognize until they started to do the work (on Helena yard lists increased sub maintenance work as part of its and Columbus) that there was a basic fundamental – long-term plans, Moore said. “I’m fully confident they like I said, blocking and tackling – that they lacked. So can get the work done. They’re trying to grow that part some of this was just, we didn’t realize they needed the of the business, and we’re interested in having them be help. It was never on our side any intention of not a partner with us in that type of business because, one, providing the help, and as soon as they said they needed it gives us some surge capacity at the naval shipyards if the help in this particular area, we opened up we need it, for instance like with Boise, or if heaven everything we had,” Moore said. forbid we were to have a collision to go to war or Newport News Shipbuilding spokesman Duane something and needed capacity we couldn’t self- Bourne told USNI News that “we are focused on generate in the naval shipyards, it’s always nice to have completing the maintenance availabilities of USS Helena somebody there that can do that for us,” he said. (SSN-725) and USS Columbus (SSN-762) in late 2020 The two partners just had to sort out some and the first half of 2022, respectively. Although these growing pains first before getting to this point, he maintenance projects are of different magnitudes and acknowledged. Improvements at Newport News complexities, there are some commonalities in the Shipbuilding In December, Moore told reporters after a challenges we have congressional hearing that Boise’s delay going into CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 FROM PAGE 5 condition of the boat, and we have taken lessons faced. The three primary challenges were reconstituting learned from the other EOHs. So I think the work our submarine maintenance capabilities that had been package we have coming in on Boise is pretty complete, idle since 2009 (this work greatly differs from new and we’re going to have some things – she’s in dry dock construction), the need to grow additional and at Newport News now, which will allow us to get in and effectively balance engineering and production look at some of the things you couldn’t look at resources being split between maintenance waterborne, some of the ballast tanks and things, but availabilities that are being planned and executed we’ve got a pretty detailed history on Los Angeles-class concurrently, and the greater than anticipated hull- submarines, so we have a pretty good idea with a high specific new growth work. We have addressed these degree of confidence what work is out there,” Moore issues and are making good progress on both of these said. availabilities.” A key lesson learned from Helena and “We have demonstrated considerable learning Columbus is that the work package should be pretty and continuous improvement since reconstituting the well defined before a contract is signed – something submarine fleet support product line, which had been that’s pretty fundamental to ship repair, but hadn’t been idle since 2009. We are committed to growing and executed well as SSN availabilities were delayed and building the workforce needed to support our moved around over and over. submarine maintenance capabilities, and will continue With Helena and Columbus, “it was more of a, hey, let’s to work with the Navy to keep pace with their current get it in there, let’s get started, and as we get growth and forecasted volume of shipbuilding and maintenance we’ll manage it as we go. That’s always a strategy that needs,” he added. doesn’t work well, in my book. You’re always going to Moore said that Electric Boat likely won’t be a have some growth work, but the better you can define provider of submarine maintenance for much longer – the work that you have to do up front, the better you’re aside from an availability for USS Hartford (SSN-768) going to be, for a couple reasons. One, you know what that starts in November 2021, the Connecticut yard will the cost and schedule are likely to be, you’re not going have its hand full with construction of Columbia-class to be surprised. Two, if you really have a better idea of SSBNs and Block V Virginia-class SSNs. Moore said it’s what the scope is looking like, then you know whether important to get the sub repair capability reconstituted you’ve got the capacity to match that scope of work,” the at Newport News Shipbuilding so that one private yard admiral said, adding that that capacity applies to both can serve as part of the SSN repair community. the maintenance workforce to do the repairs and also His ultimate vision for Newport News Shipbuilding’s the engineering workforce to handle the SUBSAFE role– based on recent lessons learned – would be that requirements. the Virginia yard always has one submarine in planning The two subs already at Newport News will and one in execution, but never more than one in each have lengthy availabilities: Helena won’t deliver until phase, lined up heel to toe. And the private yard might early this fall after going into the yard in October 2017 – cease working on the Los Angeles-class SSNs and three years for what was meant to be a six-month instead only do Virginia-class work. Moore said the docking selected restricted availability. Columbus won’t Virginia subs are newer and that the current workers at come out until late 2021 or early 2022, Moore said, Newport News Shipbuilding are more familiar with the after entering in July 2017 and planning for an August design since that’s what they’ve been building at the 2019 end of the EOH. yard. Portsmouth and Norfolk naval shipyards might do Moore said an EOH on an attack sub would take the remaining LA-class boats as they near the end of about 25 months at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which their lives, Moore said, though a final decision has not specializes in this kind of submarine repair work. been reached. Columbus will ultimately be about four and a half years, “We’re looking for a plan that makes everybody as Newport News went through the growing pains of as successful as we can, so that’s certainly something reconstituting this capability. Moore said he hoped to we’re thinking about,” he noted. get Boise down to about 30 months – which he Boise’s Future Moore said the 18 months between when acknowledged might be a stretch goal, but he said that’s Boise was supposed to come over to Newport News what he hoped to see come out of the contract Shipbuilding and when it actually made the move negotiations between the yard and the Navy. weren’t wasted. The Navy and industry team used that Better Balance of Supply and Demand at Public time to do inspections and get a good idea of the ship’s Yards Moore acknowledged that the bulk of the Navy’s condition and the scope of work that will have to be problems in recent years was that its four public done during the upcoming overhaul. shipyards, tasked with maintaining nuclear-powered “I feel good at this point. If we didn’t feel good submarines and aircraft carriers, did not have the four years later, shame on us. We’ve at least learned the capacity to keep up with demand. hard lessons from Columbus and from Helena and CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 we’ve had some time to get in and inspect the material FROM PAGE 6 “The SSNs is really where I would expect, as we head The workforce across the yards dropped after into Fiscal Year 2018 and ‘19 and ‘20, they are going to sequestration and budget controls wracked the Navy be the ones that gain the most benefit of adding capacity maintenance budget, with many of the workers left at at the shipyards.” the yards having less experience than those who retired Though Boise has remained a “problem child” and weren’t replaced in recent years. for longer than anticipated, Moore noted in the recent Beyond the sheer number of people doing the interview that SSN maintenance is wrapping up on time work, “basically, the two big yards, the carrier yards, more and more as capacity at the public yards grows. Puget and Norfolk, haven’t been doing SSN Making his point, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & maintenance. … They’ve been just focused on SSBN Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) refueling.” announced on May 21 that it had completed USS The last SSN availability done at one of those Missouri (SSN-780) five days early, marking “the first yards turned into another poster child for the Navy’s time any shipyard has completed two consecutive SSN maintenance woes: USS Albany (SSN- 753) went in Virginia-class extended dry-docking selected restricted for a two-year maintenance availability and was stuck availabilities (EDSRA) ahead of schedule” after USS at Norfolk Naval Shipyard for four years because not North Carolina (SSN-777) completed its EDSRA two enough resources could be devoted to getting the sub days early on Dec. 1, 2018. out on time. Moore said that, finally, Puget and Norfolk In fact, whereas Moore had told USNI News in are on their final SSBN refueling each. USS Wyoming 2017 that he thought improvements would lead to the (SSBN-742) will wrap up at Norfolk by the end of this maintenance backlog being eliminated by 2023, he told summer, and then Puget will finish the very last USNI News last week that NAVSEA was on track to have refueling with USS Louisiana (SSBN-743). no more backlog by the end of FY 2021. Also weighing Norfolk down is the Moored Moore said he was confident NAVSEA was in a good Training Ship conversion program, which Moore said position on SSN maintenance because a whole set of would deliver the final training ship around June 2021. improvements had been made in tandem in recent At that point, Moore said, “Norfolk will just be carrier years: not only was the workforce now up to its goal of work, so we’re on plan to start bringing submarines 36,700 personnel, but an effort to create better business back in,” with the same planned for Puget as well. practices is underway and the first projects in a 20-year “And as we build more Virginia-class submarines, we’ll Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) eventually start bringing more submarine work back in. program are already hitting the waterfront. And the fact that you don’t have SSBN refueling Last summer the Navy kicked off a Naval overhauls to work on means that, in terms of the Sustainment System-Shipyards initiative to look at the priority at the naval shipyards, we shouldn’t see the business practices that support ship maintenance, SSNs taking a backseat. Remember, a lot of the reason modeled after a very successful NSS-Aviation effort that they took the backseat is because we just didn’t have helped Naval Air Forces reach 80-percent readiness the capacity at the naval shipyards to begin with. So rates and higher in the fighter jet fleet. Moore said a we’ve grown from, in the four years I’ve been in the job, contract would be awarded this summer for NSS-S, with from 33,000 up to 36,700 people. So we now have the a company selected to help improve business practices capacity to do all the work that’s assigned to us, and over the long term. And though the SIOP is a long-term that’s going to reflect in on-time delivery across the plan that will require about $21 billion in funding over board, whether it’s carrier work or SSNs,” he added. 20 years, Moore said an early project at Pearl Harbor to If the plan can be executed, Moore said the anticipated replace a Los Angeles-class dry dock with a new one for work at Norfolk Naval Shipyard matches the workforce modern Virginia-class subs – as well as a production capacity, meaning there should be no more backlog. facility on the waterfront that will move all shops and “The totality of work at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, there’s engineering spaces closer to the dry dock where repairs a good level plan out in the [five-year Future Years take place – will create a “dramatic improvement” in Defense Program],” he said. productivity there. “Once you take the Moored Training Ship work “We’re trying to get out of the mentality of setting and SSBN [Engineered Refueling Overhaul] work away, priorities within naval shipyards, because my we’ll fill that in with SSN work to maintain a pretty experience has been, if you make something priority stable and steady level of work.” three or four, all that means is it’s going to be late. We In 2017, Moore told USNI News that the yards set priorities in a time when we just didn’t have had inherited a hefty backlog of work that year but that capacity to work on everything. And so I think that rising capacity would help them chip away at that work mindset has changed. On-time delivery of ships and and eventually stop adding to the backlog by FY 2020 – submarines has been mission priority number-one in the current fiscal year. my entire four years, and I think we’ve grown the “The SSNs have really been the Achilles’ heel, and that capacity at the naval shipyards now, we’ve done a starts with capacity,” Moore said three years ago. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 NEXT MEETING IS…..?!?! July 11th in Columbus Nebraska.

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************************************************************************************************** Navy Terminology, Jargon & Slang ‘Horse-cock’ thru ‘Hydraulic Sandwich’

Horse-cock - Sandwich meat, usually served at MIDRATS or during relaxed states of GQ, made with mystery meat masquerading as bologna or other lunch meat. The legendary 'tube steak.' Aka 'cylindrical sirloin', 'fillet of mule tool.' Horse Latitudes – An area of variable and fickle winds in the region of the doldrums. Sailing ships which were becalmed here often had to throw live cargo such as livestock over the side to conserve water. The bloated carcasses sometimes floated for quite some time, and were often seen by other ships. Hot Rack (or Rack/Bunk) – Sharing of beds due to a lack of living space aboard ship. Hot Run – A torpedo which lodges in its tube when fired, or which activates itself without being fired. A very dangerous situation, as the torpedo’s warhead could easily "cook off" from the heat buildup. Hot Runner – A high performer, one who consistently does well. Hot, Straight, and Normal – (Submarine) A report from the sonar operator that torpedoes just fired are running hot (proper ignition of the engine has occurred), straight (not malfunctioning and steering in a circular run), and normal (no unusual noise are being emitted). Originally used to report performance of steam torpedoes, ca. WWII. Hotel Services – Power, water, and steam used for cooking, heating, laundry, or other non-engineering or nonpropulsion purposes. HS – Helicopter anti-submarine warfare squadron. HSL – Helicopter anti-submarine squadron (light). Huffer - A cart used to provide start air to an aircraft. Hull Down – The term for a ship when viewed at such a distance that only her upper works (structure above the weather deck level) can be seen. Hull Up – The term for a ship which is sufficiently close that her weather decks may been seen. Hum Job – Blowjob. Hummer - (1) E-2 Hawkeye, so-called for the sound of its turboprop engines. (2) Any propeller-driven aircraft. Hunter-killer – (1) A SAG whose primary mission is ASW; a term coined in WWII. (2) FAST ATTACK sub. Hydraulic Sandwich – Liquid Lunch. BOAT DESIGNATION REPORTED LOST MEN INFORMATION USS PICKEREL I SS-177 3-Apr-1943 74 LOST POSSIBLE JAPANESE MINE BETWEEN MIDWAY ISLAND AND JAPAN USS GRENADIER SS-210 22-Apr-1943 4 POWS SCUTTLED AFTER JAPANESE AIR ATTACK, MALAY PENINSULA USS SNOOK I SS-279 8-Apr-1945 84 LOST UNKNOWN CAUSES OFF FORMOSA USS THRESHER II SSN-593 10-Apr-1963 129 LOST OPERATIONAL OFF NEW ENGLAND COAST USS SQUALUS SS-192 23-May-1939 26 LOST FOUNDERED OFF PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE (BOAT SALVAGED AND RECOMMISSIONED UNDER A NEW NAME) USS RUNNER I SS-275 28-May-1943 78 LOST POSSIBLE JAPANESE MINE OFF HONSHU, JAPAN USS LAGARTO SS-371 3-May-1945 86 LOST JAPANESE SURFACE ATTACK IN GULF OF SIAM USS SCORPIAN II SSN-589 22-May-1968 99 LOST POSSIBLE TORPEDO DETONATION OFF AZORES USS O9 SS-70 20-Jun-1941 33 LOST FOUNDERED OFF ISLE OF SHOALS USS S-27 SS-132 19-Jun-1942 0 LOST GROUNDED/SUNK OFF SE SIDE AMCHITKA ISLAND USS R-12 SS-89 12-Jun-1943 42 LOST FOUNDERED OFF KEY WEST, FLORIDA USS HERRING SS-233 1-Jun-1944 84 LOST JAPANESE SHORE BATTERY OFF MATSUWA ISLAND, KURILES USS GUDGEON SS-211 7-Jun-1944 78 LOST JAPANESE AIR/SURFACE ATTACK IN NORTHERN MARIANAS USS GOLET SS-361 14-Jun-1944 82 LOST JAPANESE SURFACE ATTACK OFF HONSHU, JAPAN USS BONEFISH I SS-223 18-Jun-1945 85 LOST JAPANESE SURFACE ATTACK OFF Toyama Wan USS G2 SS-27 30-Jul-1919 3 LOST FOUNDERED IN LONG ISLAND SOUND USS GRUNION SS-216 30-Jul-1942 70 LOST UNKNOWN CAUSES OFF KISKA ISLAND, ALEUTIANS USS S-28 SS-133 4-Jul-1944 50 LOST FOUNDERED OFF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS USS ROBALO SS-273 26-Jul-1944 78 LOST POSSIBLE JAPANESE MINE OFF PALAWAN - 4 POWS USS G2 SS-27 30-Jul-1919 3 LOST FOUNDERED IN LONG ISLAND SOUND USS GRUNION SS-216 30-Jul-1942 70 LOST UNKNOWN CAUSES OFF KISKA ISLAND, ALEUTIANS USS S-28 SS-133 4-Jul-1944 50 LOST FOUNDERED OFF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS USS ROBALO SS-273 26-Jul-1944 78 LOST POSSIBLE JAPANESE MINE OFF PALAWAN - 4 POWS UNITED STATES SUBMARINE VETERANS INCORPORATED OFFICERS CMDR/POC PATRICK J. HANCOCK 1626 N. SYCAMORE STR. [email protected] WAHOO, NE 68066-1044 VICE CMDR RICHARD KROPATSCH 2ND VICE SECRETARY WILLIAM C. WILSON

TREASURER/ GLENN HARRIS MEMBERSHIP BASE STOREKEEPER LARRY ANDERSEN 3590 LOWELL ROAD GIBBON, NE 68840 308-468-6655` [email protected] TRIM PUMP - WILLIAM C. WILSON 1301 N 6TH STREET EDITOR RED OAK, IA 51566 712-357-1035 [email protected] SUBVETTES USSVI OFFICERS ??? PRESIDENT LORRI KENTNER 217 W 2ND STREET – PO BOX 548 H 402-755-2169 C 402-404-1289 PONCA, NE 68770 [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT ******************** SECRETARY KATHY HANCOCK(PAT) 1626 N. SYCAMORE STR. WAHOO, NE 68066-1044 HISTORIAN CINDY MONINGER 310 G STR. SHELTON, NE 68876-9503 308-647-6767(TIM) [email protected] TREASURER SUE ANDERSEN(LARRY 3590 LOWELL ROAD GIBBON, NE 68840 308-468-6655 ************************************************************************************************************************************************ FROM PAGE 7 1. Having passed the enlistment physical, Jon was number of things in the shipyards to improve productivity, asked by the doctor, "Why do you want to join the we’ve working through this Naval Sustainment Shipyard to Navy submarine, son?" bring in some help to go look at how we can transform the "My father said it'd be a good idea, Sir." business processes at the naval shipyards. And then I’m "Oh? And what does your father do?" really proud of the work we’ve done on SIOP because that "He's in the Army, Sir. complements all the work –you can have the right numbers of workers, but if 2. A new ensign assigned to submarines was eager you really want to take that next step to being more to impress his commanding officer with all the productive and delivering everything on time, you’ve got to knowledge he had picked up at submarine school. make the needed investments in the infrastructure to After listening patiently for five minutes, the senior support that,” Moore said. officer said: "Listen, it's simple. Add the number of “I don’t think you can look at them individually, you have to times we dive to the number of times we surface. go look at them in totality. You have to do all three of them.” Divide that number by two. If the result doesn't ******************************************************** come out even, don't open the hatch. I'm going to quit my job working on this 3. Why does the USMC put Marines on ships? submarine So the Navy has someone to dance with underway. I'm under a lot of pressure EDITOR the trim pump WILLIAM C. WILSON JULY 2020 1301 N. 6TH STREET RED OAK, IA 51566

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