05 February 2018 56 Supervisor Develops Noise Attenuation Device for Code 960 In an effort to lessen the amount of noise created by the gasket machine exhaust system, Code 960 Nuclear Continuous Training and Development (CTD) Subject Matter Expert (SME) Paul Foster created an innovative sound dampening device...
05 February 2018 Norfolk Naval Shipyard Works to Leverage Additive Repair Technology A Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) team visited the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University (PSU) Nov. 3-5 for a knowledge sharing event for new additive repair technology...
05 February 2018 NNSY's Technology and Innovation Lab Leverages Tools and Ideas to Improve Shipyard Production and Safety Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) employees clad in exoskeletons laboring in the drydock. Workers surveying an augmented reality 3-D model in advance of a shipcheck. Shipyarders using laser ablators that can zap rust from a bulkhead in a matter of seconds...
26 January 2018 Shipyard Spotlight: MARCC Leverages Decades of Employee Experience It's been said we grow wiser as we get older, and if the amount of experience at the Mid Atlantic Regional Calibration Center (MARCC) could have an age, it would be well over 200-years-old. In fact, just four employees at the MARCC bring more than 135 years of experience with them...
23 January 2018 Mobile Implementation Team Visits NNSY, Innovative Ideas Shared Between Shipyards A new team of innovation pioneers is paving the way to process improvement at the Navy's four public shipyards...
01 December 2017 SSC Atlantic Teams with Industry to Augment In-House Engineering Efforts Providing information warfare solutions to warfighters effectively and affordably across five continents and seven time zones is a monumental task, but Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic is up to it...
30 November 2017 Norfolk Naval Shipyard Undocks USS La Jolla Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) successfully undocked attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN 701) Nov. 8...
21 November 2017 2017 Navy Sexual Assault Prevention Innovation Awardees Recognized The Navy recognized the 2017 Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office awardees for the Sexual Assault Prevention Innovation Award Nov. 9 in Norfolk, Virginia...
09 November 2017 Norfolk Naval Shipyard Takes Another Step Forward in Modernization With more than 20 years of research, planning, designing, construction and certification, the new Controlled Industrial Facility (CIF) onboard Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) is not only a new work site, it is a giant step into radiological facilities revitalization...
07 November 2017 NNSY Celebrate 104th Apprentice Graduation on 250th Anniversary In a mark of tradition, Norfolk Naval Shipyard honored 183 graduates from its Apprentice program at Willet Hall in Portsmouth, Virginia, Nov. 1. The date also marked the shipyards 250th anniversary...