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Pearl Harbor Shipyard Begins Six-Month Jacksonville Project

Navy News Service

Story Number: NNS110303-11
3/3/2011

From Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) began a six-month maintenance period for USS Jacksonville (SSN 699) Feb. 28.

The submarine is planned to do selected restricted availability in early March.

"The USS Jacksonville availability has a challenging schedule, but our team has planned well and is ready to execute," said PHNSY & IMF Commander Capt. Brian Osgood. "Shipyard managers began integrating shipyard and ship's force availability requirements several months before the work started. Early project team integration is critical to successful team building and ultimately to overall project success."

Scheduled maintenance is scheduled for the propeller shaft, air induction diesel exhaust, the steering and diving components, torpedo tubes, and the main seawater (MSW) hull and backup valves.

MSW hull and backup valve repairs normally take up to eight months, but PHNSY & IMF Jacksonville Project Superintendent Scott Sandin is confident his team can complete the task in six months.

"We have a huge workload, and an airtight timeline," said Jacksonville Commanding Officer Cmdr. Nathan Sukols. "But if anyone should be able to meet these high expectations, it's a Robert T. Mason Award for Depot Maintenance winner [PHNSY & IMF] and a Squadron Battle Efficiency Award winner [USS Jacksonville]. We've got an excellent team and look forward to the challenge."

PHNSY & IMF is a full-service naval shipyard and regional maintenance center for the Navy's surface ships and submarines. It is a field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) which engineers, builds, buys and maintains naval ships, submarines and their combat systems.

Strategically located in the mid-Pacific, PHNSY & IMF is about a week of steam time closer to potential major regional contingencies in East Asia than sites on the West Coast. It is the largest industrial employer in the state of Hawaii with a combined civilian and military workforce of about 4,900 and an operating budget of about $563 million.