Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

GAO Report on Navy Readiness and Shipyard Improvement

Changes in Cost Estimates for Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Dry Dock Project

The following is the June 28, 2023, Government Accountability Office report, Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Address Cost and Schedule Estimates for Shipyard Improvement. 

From the reportWhat GAO Found

The Navy has not developed a full cost and schedule estimate for its Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP)—an effort to improve its dry docks, facilities, and equipment—and reports that it will not be able to do so until fiscal year 2025. In the interim, the Navy plans to provide...

https://news.usni.org/2023/06/29/gao-report-on-navy-readiness-and-shipyard-improvement

Overview of Department of Defense Maintenance Depots

The following is the Dec. 30, 2022, Congressional Research Service’s In Focus report, Defense Primer: Department of Defense Maintenance Depots.

From the report

Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.) §2464 requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to “maintain a core logistics capability that is government-owned and government-operated [GOGO]… to ensure a ready and controlled source of technical competence and resources necessary to ensure effective and timely response to a mobilization, national...

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/05/overview-of-department-of-defense-maintenance-depots

Bollinger books $33.7 million Navy contract

Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, La., is on a roll. Hard on the heels of winning a contract for production of the Navy’s Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM USV) the shipbuilder has landed another sizable Navy contract.

This latest award is a $33,704,757 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of the multi-mission dry dock caissons at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY).

The work to be performed by Bollinger provides for two graving dock caissons at PNSY for Dry Dock #1N and Dry...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/shipyard-news/bollinger-books-33-7-million-navy-contract/

Navy, Lawmaker Split Over Timeline to Renovate Public Repair Yards

Terrance Wells, from San Diego, ties straps for a containment project on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on Oct. 26, 2020. US Navy Photo

The Navy faces a conundrum in renovating its centuries-old public shipyards.

On one hand, the sooner the yards are redesigned with more efficient layouts and overhauled to have the latest tools and machines, the sooner yard employees can start repairing submarines and aircraft carriers at a faster pace and dig...

https://news.usni.org/2021/02/15/navy-lawmaker-split-over-timeline-to-renovate-public-repair-yards

NOAA improves navigation near two naval bases

Two new Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems, also known as PORTS, are improving maritime safety near Kings Bay, Ga., and Portsmouth, N.H., near two Navy installations, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today. NOAA and the Navy partnered to install the first new PORTS in two years, the 34th and 35th in the nationwide network.

The system near Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, the East Coast home to America’s Ohio-class submarines, is an integrated series of sensors which...

https://www.workboat.com/news/government/noaa-improves-navigation-near-georgia-and-new-hampshire-naval-bases/

GAO: Naval Shipyards Still Under-Resourced; Delays On Sub, Carrier Work Will Continue

USS Jefferson City (SSN-759) departs Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard after completing an engineering overhaul to prolong the life of the submarine. US Navy Photo

It’s no secret that the Navy’s four public shipyards have prioritized attack submarines last, instead of focusing the yards’ limited resources on aircraft carrier maintenance and ballistic missile submarine refuelings. But even though the SSBN refuelings are drawing to an end, which should free up resources for SSN maintenance, a Government...

https://news.usni.org/2020/08/20/gao-naval-shipyards-still-under-resourced-delays-on-sub-carrier-work-will-continue

NAVSEA Says Attack Sub Repairs Much Improved as USS Boise Enters Yard Following 4-Year Wait

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Boise (SSN 764) enters Souda Bay, Greece, during a scheduled port visit on Dec. 23, 2014. Boise conducted naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe during its last deployment that ended in January 2015 — and the submarine has been awaiting a maintenance availability ever since, due to limited capacity in public and private yards. US Navy photo.

After years of struggling to...

Navy, Marine Cuts Pay Biggest Share of New $4B Pentagon Border Barrier Funding

U.S. Northern Command border support operations at Bisbee, Arizona on Nov. 6, 2018. US Army Photo

Pentagon leaders want to reroute $1.5 billion in money from two major shipbuilding programs and aircraft for the Navy and Marine Corps to support construction of $3.8 billion in new physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a copy of a Fiscal Year 2020 reprogramming request obtained by USNI News.

According to the reprogramming request that hit the Hill today, the Department of...

https://news.usni.org/2020/02/13/navy-marine-cuts-pay-biggest-share-of-new-4b-pentagon-border-barrier-funding

Navy Claims Successes In Improving On-Time Ship Maintenance, But Backlogs Persist

Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Lashavya Barber welds aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) in 2018. US Navy Photo

CAPITOL HILL – The Navy is still working to reduce its ship maintenance backlog, but a number of small improvements at its four public shipyards and innovative applications of new technologies and processes are moving the needle in the right direction, top leaders say.

The Navy in 2018 created a Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan (SIOP) that would

https://news.usni.org/2019/12/04/navy-claims-successes-in-improving-on-time-ship-maintenance-but-backlogs-persist

GAO Report: Navy Risks Under-Estimating Time, Coast Of Shipyard Upgrades Plan

Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Jefferson City (SSN-759) departs Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard after completing an engineering overhaul to prolong the life of the submarine. Navy photo

Under-funded, obsolete, out of room and wearing out is the status of the Navy’s shipyards according to a Government Accountability Office. report detailing the service’s ambitious decades-long and multi-billion-dollar facilities modernization plan.

The GAO report evaluates the Navy’s 2018 Shipyard...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/26/gao-report-navy-risks-under-estimating-time-coast-of-shipyard-upgrades-plan

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