Hawaii Governor Tours Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Hawaii's Governor David Ige visited Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility December 21 to learn more about the historic shipyard's national security mission and role as the state's largest industrial employer, marking the governor’s first visit to the shipyard since he was elected in 2014. During a tour of the shipyard's huge Inside Machine Shop, the governor met with shipyard workers, some of whom demonstrated technology innovations such as simulators for 3D painting and welding. Shipyard Commander Capt.
Corpus Christi Maintenance Project Completed Early
The USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) project team at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNSY) completed the Guam-homeported submarine’s Docking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) maintenance project on Dec. 15, six days ahead of schedule. In a congratulatory note to the PHNSY team, the Commander of Submarine Force Pacific, Rear Adm. Joseph A. The project team and other shipyard managers acknowledged this project took a slightly different management “tone” from other prioritized projects in the past, and that the positive approach set the team up for early success. “There was ownership and everyone got to hit the ‘I believe button’ in planning,” said Cmdr. Jamie Kalowsky, project superintendent of the approximately 50-member Corpus Christi project management team.