May 30, 2019 ALUT Vol. XI No. 11 SPuget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate MaintenanceE Facilityy USS Ronald Reagan SRA completes on-time Story on Page 3 Commander’s Corner Article start Commander’s leadership forum and key messages Team PSNS & IMF, I recently had the opportunity to attend • Training effectiveness: Making the best use the Commander’s Leadership Forum in of time to deliver the right training at the Washington, D.C., hosted by Vice Admiral right time to maximize our learning and Thomas Moore, Commander, Naval Sea resulting competency to do our work. Systems command. The two-day meeting Innovation: Embrace learning, critical thinking brought together all NAVSEA flag officers, and continuous improvement senior executive service members and • Innovation roadmap: Identify and remove commanding officers to align our mission hurdles to rapidly implement innovative and priorities in support of the Navy. 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Markle cost for the Navy is more important than ever. mission-ready environment Executive Director As a shipyard, our vision to deliver on time, • Shipyard infrastructure planning: Develop Richard L. Tift every time to preserve our national security Public Affairs Officer the plans for major investments over the next Kellie M. Randall is absolutely aligned to broader strategies couple of decades to create the most efficient Editor focused on allowing our country to continue Michele L. Fletcher shipyard of the future. leading as a global power. We are facing Project and Product Line Management: Need more information? adversaries today that possess significant, Facebook: PSNSandIMF Integrate everything needed to improve ontheWaterfront rapidly improving warfighting capabilities; workflow Flickr: Flickr.com/ they aspire to be our equal. 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Editorial expanding our existing network mentoring content is gathered, and career counseling to provide on the seas! prepared, edited and provided by the PSNS knowledge on career pathways and advice & IMF Public Affairs on how to prepare for future opportunites Office. All photos Captain Howard Markle are property Commander, PSNS & IMF of the U.S. Navy, unless otherwise credited. On the cover USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) docked pierside at Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, March 7. (PSNS & IMF photo by Michele Fletcher) 2 May 30, 2019 Salute Reagan project wraps up carrier upkeep on-time Myke Moe, USS Ronald Reagan Project part of the success of this availability.” Engineering Planning Manager “The conclusion of USS Ronald Reagan The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) SRA is bittersweet, said Cmdr. Darrin Fiscal Year 2019 Selected Restricted Barber, deputy project superintendent Availability successfully completed (military). “As we successfully return the on time and under budget May 14— ship back to the fleet more capable and thanks to the teamwork of USS Ronald lethal than she was a few months ago, Reagan, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & we also say sayōnara to friends we made Intermediate Maintenance Facility and and the country that unequivocally Ship Repair Facility, Yokosuka. embraces the 700 plus Washingtonians The project team, led by Paula who make the journey annually.” The Chapman, project superintendent, impressive work done by the Reagan and the forward deployed naval forces project team earned accolades from project team successfully executed Capt. Patrick Hannifin, USS Ronald nearly 200,000 man-days of maintenance Reagan commanding officer, and a and modernization in just four months. Bravo Zulu from Adm. John C. Aquilino, U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. “This Major work accomplished included result comes from the outstanding the solid state frequency converter; teamwork of USS Ronald Reagan, Puget and turbine generator hotwell level Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate control ship alterations. Additionally, Maintenance Facility and Ship Repair pressurizer heater cable inspections, Facility, Yokosuka, said Aquilino. and aircraft elevator hitch girder “On-time Chief of Naval Operation replacement. availabilities are the foundation of the “The manner in which the production Optimized Fleet Response Plan and and engineering teams collaborated and ensure our Sailors get the training and swarmed any problems that emerged operational time needed to win the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) docked pierside was astonishing, said Scott Rowe, at Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, high-end fight. Congratulations on a March 7, 2019. (PSNS & IMF photo by Michele deputy project superintendent. “Their job well done!” ability to work in concert was a large Fletcher) USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) docked pierside at Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, March 7, 2019. (PSNS & IMF photo by Michele Fletcher) May 30, 2019 Salute 3 IDEAS . INNOVATION. IMPLEMENTATION PSNS & IMF, NUWC partner on robot for submarine inspections Article start Nathanael Miller, Naval Undersea Warfare The initial idea was to use a spring- PSNS & IMF took delivery of the newly Center Division, Keyport Public Affairs mounted roller that touched the hull, revamped crawler with the auto-height The sleek form of the attack submarine but this immediately created several attachment in February, 2019. Testing on USS Connecticut (SSN 22) seemed problems. The first was paint damage. Connecticut began in April. to float upon keel blocks in the dry In order to be effective, the roller could Initial test begins not be covered in soft, paint-protecting dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Seven years’ worth of struggle neoprene like the climber’s treads. It was & Intermediate Maintenance Facility successfully sucked itself to the side of a steel roller that could mar and scratch as a crew of engineers underneath it the submarine, as the robot methodically paint. The other problem was the springs prepared a tiny robot to perform a hull ran over the side of Connecticut’s hull themselves. The springs had to be strong inspection in early April. for more than two hours, doing a test enough to maintain the correct sensor inspection to prove the auto-height What once was the stuff of future- height when the climber was inverted sensor system was as effective as the tech journals is fast becoming a reality underneath the hull. However, Stone said robot’s vacuum motor. as PSNS & IMF and Naval Undersea this inadvertently resulted in the springs Warfare Center Division, Keyport lifting the climber off the hull. Stone said the next planned step is for partner to enable an innovative robot Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to begin climber to perform U.S. Navy submarine Seeking help in building system supplying hull climbers to the shipyards hull inspections. “We were trying to find out who could in the near future. He said PSNS & help us build the height-control system,” Hull inspections IMF and NUWC would continue their Stone recalled. This resulted in him partnership and supply the sensor Any time a submarine comes into dry taking a trip 10 miles up the road to dock for maintenance, repair, refueling armature with Paine’s auto-height NUWC Division, Keyport in the summer mechanism to the shipyards.