EXECUTE EFFICIENTLY

We also executed efficiently by:

• Implementing Dorothy, an artificial intelligence virtual help desk agent that helps IT respond to service desk requests more efficiently.

• Deploying short-range planning to standardize how work is sequenced in the manufacturing shops. This process improves manufacturing stability and predictability while allowing the escalation of ship priority work in a controlled manner. In 11 of the last 12 weeks of 2022, the Structural Fabrication and Assembly (SFA) and Component Fabrication and Assembly (CFA) shops had all the material, planning packages and engineering documents needed to go to work for 95% of the items due to start that week.

The fourth component of NNSFORWARD focuses on sustaining our core business through innovation while seeking opportunities to grow, and Newport News Shipbuilding did not disappoint in 2022. Our 25,000 shipbuilders are working on 21 ships in various stages of construction and overhaul inside the gates, plus an additional 13 ships outside of Newport News.

Progress continues on the second Gerald R. Ford -class aircraft carrier, John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), and shipbuilders laid the keel last summer for Enterprise (CVN 80) before a crowd of more than 2,500 shipbuilding partners, family and friends. The refueling and complex overhaul of

USS George Washington (CVN 73) is nearing completion, while USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) is in the early stages of her overhaul. Progress continues in the Virginia -Class Submarine Program, too. NNS celebrated the Arkansas (SSN 800) keel laying in the fall, honoring a record six sponsors, and the program is tracking to deliver New Jersey (SSN 796) and floating off Massachusetts (SSN 798) later this year.

This year’s priorities included securing a key role in critical submarine design efforts; and developing and executing the plan for optimum acquisition of future aircraft carriers.