MITAGS Formally Certified by USN As Non-Traditional Training Site
Glen Paine, Executive Director of the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate (MITAGS) and Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI), has announced that the United States Navy has certified the institute as a Non-Traditional Training Site. MITAGS met the rigidly high standards of the Navy and has been granted a much wider range of formal training for its personnel. To gain formal certification, MITAGS had to meet or exceed U.S. Navy standards in Instructional Management, Curriculum Management, Evaluation Management and Student Management. The MITAGS Non-Traditional Training Site (NTTS) Certifications means that the institute will become an external source for naval training. MITAGS went through a formal inspection process that verified its conformance to standards and examined its facilities.
NAMTS: The Future of Navy Ship Maintenance
All ship’s systems are vitally important to the success of the Navy mission, so whom does the captain call when a gas turbine stops turning? What happens when a diesel engine aboard ship breaks down? Until recently, Navy tenders handled most shipboard maintenance when the ships returned to homeport. Many tenders have been selected for decommissioning requiring the Navy to find new solutions to the age-old problem of ship maintenance and a key element is the Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) program. "What drove this program is tender decommissioning," says Chief Machinist Mate Kevin Krepps, command coordinator for Job Qualification Requirements at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.
