Employees of Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) and Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Division Corona were presented with awards for their extraordinary contributions to the Navy’s surface ship readiness in early December. Rear Adm. Tom Anderson, commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Center (CNRMC) and Naval Sea Systems command (NAVSEA) Director, Surface Ship Maintenance and Modernization (SEA 21) awarded 24 Rough Rider awards to employees in separate presentations at SWRMC and NSWC Division Corona on Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 respectively.

Anderson instituted the Rough Riders award after assuming command of CNRMC and SEA 21. The Rough Riders team is an homage to President Theodore Roosevelt and emphasizes the spirit and determination of the brave men and women depicted in his famous Man in the Arena quote. The award is for people involved in the complex missions of SEA 21 and CNRMC.  It is not limited to government personnel only.

“This recognition acknowledges people working hard doing the core work of our business – in this case maintaining and modernization our navy ships – so they get back to the Fleet for operational tasking. I’ve said it before, ship repair is a tough business, and there are long hours that most people don’t see that have to get done. The award of a Rough Rider Identification designates an individual as part of the Rough Rider team and recognizes them as an individual that contributes greatly to our mission,” said Anderson during his visit to SWRMC.

SWRMC employees were presented the awards for their efforts supporting the double-dry docking of USS Stethem (DDG 63) and USS Decatur (DDG 73) in BAE System’s Pride of California dry dock; the successful completion of one Continuous Maintenance Availability and two concurrent availabilities on USS New Orleans (LPD 18) resulting in a casualty report free underway and homeport shift to forward deployed status; and a successful execution of a Docking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) on USS Dewey (DDG 105) which completed seven days early.

NSWC Division Corona employees were presented the awards for their efforts supporting the Ship Maintenance and Modernization Data Improvement Initiative creating a single, authoritative, ship maintenance and modernization data source to be utilized for business analytics, budget, and execution justifications. The team delivered the initial product on time, while working hand in hand with the many project challenges including data manipulation, and aggregating the information in order to compute new metrics under an aggressive schedule.

CNRMC is a NAVSEA activity with oversight of operations of Regional Maintenance Centers in their execution of surface ship maintenance and modernization. SEA 21 is the dedicated life cycle management organization for the Navy’s in-service surface ships and is responsible for managing critical modernization, maintenance, training, and inactivation programs.

SWRMC is meeting its mission to provide superior ship maintenance, modernization, technical support and training for the Pacific Fleet.

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