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June 2015
[Commander’s Corner] ‘Giving back’ and moving forward By Capt. Jamie Kalowsky Shipyard Commander Aloha, Shipyard ‘Ohana. The (relatively) sunnier and warmer days of summer remind us of the great things life has to offer. At this time of year, we have an opportunity to appreciate family, friends and arriving/departing visitors. With schools and loved ones in transition outside our fence lines, this is also a great time to appreciate our role outside the Shipyard, within our home communities. Our core values of Honor, Courage, Commitment and Aloha are elements of our moral fiber. We do not leave them at the Shipyard when the whistle blows. On the contrary, Shipyarders make a difference here in Hawaii every day of the week. This month’s Shipyard Log is dedicated to all of you who devote so much of your time, treasure and talent to our local communities. Shipyard volunteer contributions come in many forms; we have captured a few examples within the following pages. Many Shipyarders “give back” by volunteering to help with various local events and activities – the Special Olympics Summer Games, robotics teams and competitions, STEM-related initiatives, highway clean-ups, support for our partnered and other local schools, and dozens of other worthwhile efforts – garnering wide community recognition and command-level awards through the Navy Community Service Program. Others of you prefer to quietly donate your personal time as teachers, coaches or mentors in more unheralded service to others. Your time is not all you volunteer. You also contribute your hard-earned dollars to charities of your choice. Last year, you gave $618,722 through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), earning the Shipyard the 2014 Hawaii-Pacific CFC Agency of the Year Award. However humble our individual efforts may seem, we are, in fact, many. Our collective efforts help stabilize the socioeconomic foundation of our island home. Together, we make Hawaii better through our individual contributions, big and small. WELL DONE!! As summer continues, our Shipyard’s support to the fleet also heats up, putting us right in our element. Several recent successes are early indicators of a recharged, rapidly-evolving and well-supported waterfront. Most notably: - USS Greeneville (SSN 772) recently finished a fast-paced and complex Dry-docking Selected
Restricted Availability (DSRA). Exceeding expected productive capacity, the Greeneville team delivered a shining success, built upon a foundation of expert planning and detailed risk management – a GREAT example of the power of “How” delivering the benefits of “When.” - We recently welcomed USS Hawaii (SSN 776), USS Olympia (SSN 717) and USS Jefferson City (SSN 759) to the Shipyard. Hawaii, the Shipyard’s second major Virginia Class availability, has been named the fleet’s #1 CNO priority in our yard. The Olympia DSRA brings a work package that is tailor-fit for our competencies. We got this! On Jefferson City, we will focus on job readiness cells, safety and innovation. - Our pros in the FMR received high praise from Vice Adm. Thomas Bowden, commander of Naval Surface Forces, when he sent a “Bravo Zulu” in appreciation for our fleet technical support on USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) when needed during a recent port visit. You delivered mission readiness when the fleet needed it most, truly keeping them “Fit to Fight.” Additionally, USS O’Kane (DDG 77) in Dry Dock 4 is the largest surface ship DSRA in our history. The O’Kane team is doing a great job getting this ship back to the fight. In parallel, in order to remove obstacles and knock down barriers that keep our folks from doing what they do best (DELIVER MISSION READINESS), the command’s senior leaders are also re-energized, building strategic attention on the following key areas: predictive planning with a waterfront focus; workforce engagement and development; innovation and technology; and facilities and capabilities. Within this framework, Shipyard leaders are bringing command priorities and opportunities to light, investing resources and energy in them, and seeking every opportunity for immediate and longterm ways we can make our Shipyard even better in the months, years and decades ahead. I owe you an hour back each day, and the senior leadership and labor team is helping me find the opportunities. Through your incredible community service and mission contributions, I am most proud of your daily personification of our core values: Honor, Courage, Commitment and Aloha. Stay safe, continue to look out for your immediate and extended ‘Ohana, and enjoy the summer. Before you know it, those blustery 70-degree days of fall and winter will be upon us. See you on the deck-plates!
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USS O’Kane: Biggest DSRA in Shipyard history By Ensign Megan Wilson USS O’Kane Public Affairs
The availability is 37 weeks. Of those 37 weeks, the ship will spend more than 20 in dry dock. Twenty-nine ship alterations are scheduled with one of the largest being the installation of The guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane (DDG 77) completed an improved Sound Navigation And Ranging suite. It provides its move to Dry Dock 4 at the Shipyard on March 4 to begin its surface warships with a seamlessly integrated undersea/antidry docking selected restricted availability, the biggest in Shipyard submarine warfare detection, localization, classification and targeting capability. The system presents history. an integrated picture of the acoustic tactical O’Kane returned to Joint Base Pearl situation by receiving, combining and Harbor-Hickam, the ship’s homeport, processing active and passive sonar sensor on Dec. 5, 2014 following a nine-month data from a variety of hull-mounted arrays, deployment to the Arabian Gulf and Western towed arrays, and sonobuoys. This upgrade Pacific Ocean where they conducted to the anti-submarine warfare suite will operations supporting regional security and reduce weight, space, cooling, and power counter-terrorism. requirements. “This is the second docking in O’Kane’s Other major alterations include a bow 15-year history,” said Cmdr. Gina McCaine, strengthening modification, advanced USS O’Kane commanding officer, “The galley modifications to enhance meal prep repairs and modernizations she receives times and serving capacity, two berthing during this DSRA are critical to sustaining complex renovations, mast preservation, her capability to defend our nation.” The Shipyard has been keeping the U.S. Photo by Danielle Jones antenna overhaul, and shafts/rudders/ Navy’s submarines and surface ships “fit to USS O’Kane (DDG 77) enters Dry Dock 4 to begin its propeller reconditioning. O’Kane will fight” since May 13, 1908. The Shipyard is Dry Docking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA), also be the first in the U.S. Pacific Fleet to Hawaii’s regional maintenance center for March 4. The guided-missile destroyer’s DSRA is the receive the key management infrastructure biggest in the Shipyard’s history. (KMI) installation. KMI replaces the the U.S. Navy. After months of preparation, the availability began on Feb. 23 existing crypto system to provide a means for securely ordering, following the offload of all missiles and ammunition. Shipyard generating, producing, distributing, managing and auditing personnel and tugs precisely maneuvered O’Kane into the cryptographic products. The projected scope of work is in excess of 80,000 man-days. dry dock basin, tied her to the pier and drained the basin. This allowed the ship to rest on preplaced blocks allowing Shipyard The predicted manpower requirements are more than 500 people personnel and contractors access to below the waterline areas for per day. The overall cost is estimated to be $52 million. April 29 marked O’Kane’s 25 percent completion of DSRA. maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to critical systems on O’Kane. This maintenance will help ensure O’Kane reaches the expected O’Kane expects to undock on Aug. 26 and complete the availability on Nov. 6. life span of 40 years.
Volunteerism in the Shipyard
With nearly 5,000 civilian and military personnel in the Shipyard, the opportunities to support work functions or community activities are plentiful. Pages 3-5 show a few of our Shipyarders volunteering to support worthwile activities and functions. If you are interested in volunteering, please read the photo cut lines for names and phone numbers to contact to get involved.
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Photo by Carolyn Brewster
Above: Carolyn Brewster, Shop 52 electronic measurement equipment mechanic, volunteered to represent the Shipyard at the Living History Day at the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Jan. 31. Brewster set up (above) display tables and answered questions and passed out job information to visitors.
Shipyarders “gave back” to the community by participating in this year’s Hawaii Association of Independent Schools (HAIS) district science fair, hosted at Iolani Schools Feb. 21. Cmdr. Sarah Zorro, Dan Yamane, Mark Nakazato and Dave Wong volunteered as judges for junior and senior research projects. Judging involved interviewing students and evaluating research projects for design and methodology, execution, creativity and presentation. Volunteers also spent time with students promoting science and engineering and sharing professional experiences. Qualifiers from the HAIS district science fair were invited to participate in the Hawaii State science fair in March.
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Volunteerism in the Shipyard Federal Managers Association (FMA) ‘Adopt-a-Highway’ volunteers pose for group pictures after picking up trash along Nimitz Highway leading up to the Nimitz Gate here, (left) May 2 and (right) Feb. 7. FMA holds an ‘Adopt-aHighway’ community clean up every quarter which is open to all Shipyarders and their friends and families. If interested in participating, contact Code 970’s Pedro Quintal Jr. at 295-0714. The next scheduled clean ups are Aug. 1 and Nov. 7.
Photo by Eric Petran
Above left: Kirk Nakahira, Shop 11 shipfitter, uses a Faro Arm to take a 3-D scan of a middle school student’s arm on a laptop computer during the Career Industry Fair at the Hawaii Convention Center, April 16. Shipyard volunteers showed “cool and exciting” aspects of their job to persuade middle school students to continue to focus and concentrate on their education as they move on to high school.
Photos courtesy of Bianca Freitas
Photo courtesy of Electronics Technician 1st Class Eric Kamakeeaina
Above right: Shipyard Sailors show off the trash they gathered during their monthly Kamehameha Highway clean up this year.
Photo courtesy of Electronics Technician 1st Class Eric Kamakeeaina
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Above: Shipyard volunteers support the First Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition at the Stan Sheriff Center, March 28. Shipyarders worked as judges (left sitting in the middle, Capt. Gustavo Vergara, Code 300 Operations officer), mentors, assistants (right in black shirt, Chad Watanabe, Code 2330 nuclear engineer) and event coordinators. To volunteer for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) events, contact Eric Petran at extension 2560.
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Above: Shipyard Sailors work on refurbishing one of the 40mm gun mounts on the Battleship Missouri Memorial. Volunteer Sailors work on the gun mount for a few hours every week. The project began in the summer of 2014 and is expected to finish by 2017. Other Shipyard Sailor volunteer events have included cancer walks, Operation Homefront, Back to School Brigade, Wounded Warriors events support, Living History Day at the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Aliamanu Military Reserve YMCA clean up, Manana Elementary School track meets and Radford High School senior project judges. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Electronics Technician 1st Class Eric Kamakeeaina at 473-0596.
P h o to by M a s s C o m m u n i cat i o n Specialist 3rd Class Gabrielle Joyner
Summer Volunteerism in the Shipyard Shipyard volunteers support SOHI ‘Summer Games’ More than 150 Shipyard volunteers – including family and friends – helped run the aquatics events at the 47th annual Special Olympics Hawaii (SOHi) Summer Games at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa’s Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex, May 30-31. Each year, the Summer Games include competitions in powerlifting, softball, swimming, and track and field events. Hundreds of SOHi athletes and coaches come from throughout the state to participate. Participating athletes began training for the games in February, and competed in area and regional competitions from March through May to qualify. This year, more than 3,000 volunteers worked Saturday, Sunday or both, to provide the support needed at the various UH event venues. For 20-plus years, Shipyard volunteers have been a vital part of the aquatics events support staff. They provide structure, safety and disciplined event execution to help ensure the success of the SOHi aquatics events. Wearing white T-shirts emblazoned in green with “VOLUNTEER – Special Olympics Hawaii,” this year’s Shipyard ‘Ohana contingent was led by veteran SOHi volunteer Code 980’s Bianca “Binx” Freitas, who served as the senior Shipyard volunteer coordinator for this year’s event. Shipyard volunteers helped set up the staging areas for athletes and teams, escorted athletes from the staging areas to the swim lanes, timed individual and relay events, recorded and ran results to the awards table, loudly cheered the athletes’ efforts, kept the swimming heats running smoothly, provided food and water for volunteers, and helped present awards to the top three finishers in each event and relay.
(Above) Shipyard volunteers support an aquatics event and (below) Capt. Jamie Kalowsky, Shipyard commander, returns a salute from one of the first place athletes at the 47th annual Special Olympics Hawaii Summer Games held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex, May 30-31.
Elementary, middle and high school students participate in the 2015 Hawaii Regional SeaPerch Underwater Robotics for Youth competition at U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu, Feb. 21. SeaPerch exposes students to various careers in naval architecture and naval, ocean and
Shipyard helps bring science to life through robotics and technology By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Johans Chavarro Navy Public Affairs Support Element West, Detachment Hawaii Students from elementary, middle and high schools around the Hawaii region participated in the 2015 Hawaii Regional SeaPerch Underwater Robotics for Youth competition Feb. 21 at U.S. Coast Guard Base Honolulu. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and managed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation, SeaPerch is an innovative underwater robotics program that equips teachers and students with the resources they need to build an underwater remote-operated vehicle (ROV), allowing students to learn about science, technology, electronics and mathematics (STEM), as well as robotics and engineering. According to Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Andy Goshorn, regional naval engineer for the Coast Guard and event coordinator, the SeaPerch competition is a way for students to put what they have learned about robotics and engineering to the test, with this year’s competition attracting the highest attendance to date. “This year we had 40 teams and around 200 students,” he said. “That’s about 20 students and four more teams than last year...and being out here you really see that [the students] love the competition and the challenge. And most of all, they have a good time doing it.” Students built their ROVs from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts, following a curriculum that teaches basic engineering and science concepts with a marine engineering theme. The Shipyard used funding received from the Office of Naval Research to purchase and provide SeaPerch robotics kits to schools interested in entering a team in the competition. The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Association provided funding for meals for the students and volunteers, and for trophies and plaques for winning teams To assist with the build process, Goshorn and his team provided mentors to individual schools and also organized a “Build Day,” which allowed students from different schools to meet with mentors and receive assistance on soldering circuit boards, waterproofing the engines and wiring, as well as field-testing their ROVs. This year’s competition consisted of a video and poster presentation, as well as two challenging underwater events: the “obstacle course,” where teams navigated their ROV through a series of large rings oriented in different directions, and a “finesse course,” which tested the capability of each team’s ROV to perform individual tasks, such as maneuvering and actuating equipment on the pool floor. Coast Guardsmen, along with volunteers from the Shipyard, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, spent the competition evaluating the robots’ performance, resetting obstacles in the water and retrieving ROVs from the courses. • Shipyard Log • June 2015 • 5
Shipyard’s 2015 Federal Executi TRADES & CRAFTS Ernest Ho, Code 970/Shop 72 Ho, a lead shipwright mechanic, continuously displays outstanding leadership in mentoring both mechanics and apprentices, not just in his trade, but in others as well. He conducts both pre- and post-job briefs to ensure the work team understands how to perform its jobs safely with first time quality. He is always mindful of the safety of his fellow shipwrights when building quality scaffoldings that are used by all waterfront workers to access ships in dry dock for maintenance. Ho received the Lokahi Award on the USS Asheville (SSN 758) availability for his dedication and work performed.
Exceptional Community Service Award Gas Turbine System Technician Mechanical 2nd Class John Lennon Lennon’s generosity to the community contributed to the success of the 2014 Shipyard Family Day, The Procter & Gamble Andre Roberts Football Pro Camp and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Woman’s Flag Football Team. He selflessly volunteered over 1,000 off-duty hours mentoring, educating and coaching flag football to more than 100 children and adults on Oahu. Lennon’s efforts received the admiration of the local military community.
CLERICAL & ASSIST Mark Lalic, Code 1145 An exceptionally motivated training technician, Lalic continuously exhibits a “can do” attitude as he meets the challenges of his duties. Through his innovation and collaboration with others in the command and with U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Human Resources Office, he played a key role in the successful kick-off for and sustained excellence of the Supervisor Training for Middle Managers program. Lalic outstanding and excellent customer service to the program was enthusiastically indicated in feedback from student participants. He also developed and implemented process improvements to Code 1145’s training request procedure.
MENTOR OF THE YEAR Robert Hill, Jr., Code 105 Hill, a supervisor of physical science technicians, has earned the trust and respect of his workforce and peers through his leadership, technical vigilance and dedicated oversight of his team of highly trained technicians. He personally drives continuous improvement and first time quality in upholding the highest radiological standards by daily involvement in building the proficiency of his team. Hill meets, defines and overcomes challenges, including the hiring and developing more than 20 new technicians last fiscal year, supporting several Guam availabilities and the loaning out of his technicians to other Naval shipyards to meet on-going requirements.
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ive Board Employees of the Year LEADER/SUPERVISOR/MANAGER Dexter Magno, Code 940/Shop 56 A manager in the Pipefitting Shop, Magno has proven to be an outstanding, dedicated and successful leader who is always looking to improve on work performance and providing savings to the Shipyard and its customers. He recently challenged a tasking to overhaul two seized-up air conditioning compressors on two submarines. Magno convinced the technical code to perform additional checks on the compressors which proved that overhauls were unnecessary. Instead, repairs were accomplished, saving the customer about 1,000 man-hours ($56,000) on each compressor.
PROFESSIONAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL
Jonathan Lee, Code 2300/ Code 2320 Lee, a lead nuclear engineer, led the effort to develop a better cleaning method for submarine steam plant valves and to obtain approval by the technical authority, Naval Sea Systems Command. He also led the fouryear research and development testing effort that developed a method to eliminate the need for partial valve disassembly and allowed for the relaxation of removal requirements for cosmoline, a rust preventive. A recent significant increase in the number of valves needing this maintenance method has resulted in the anticipation that at least a $54,000 cost savings per year, as well as significant schedule savings, are anticipated.
TEAM EXCELLENCE Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) Team, Code 600/Code 610 Led by Dara Watanabe, the DPAS team includes Steven Nakamura, Scott Takahashi and Terrianne Holbrook. Working together, the team executed a 100 percent inventory of about 2,500 Shipyard assets, valued at approximately $210 million and achieved a 99.5 percent inventory accuracy rate. The team significantly increased communication and coordination between more than 50 Shipyard property custodians and shop points-of-contact, reducing inventory completion time by about 10 percent and achieving the year’s best inventory performance of any naval shipyard in both accuracy and duration. Team members integrated corrective actions and process controls to increase property accountability, in compliance with Department of Navy audit readiness goals. The solutions-focused team views challenges as opportunities for growth and improvement.
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[Nuts ‘n ‘n Bolts] Bolts] [Nuts Remember to save the date!
“Lunch on the Waterfront” is scheduled for July 31. Stay tuned for details!
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Above: Capt. Jeffrey Heydon, former Code 300 Operations Officer, and family check out one of many going away gifts he received during a farewell party at the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Boathouse, May 13. Heydon is now the commanding officer of Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Groton, Connecticut.
Photos by Danielle Jones
Above: Vice Adm. William Hilarides, Naval Sea Systems Command commander, talks to Shop 56 first year apprentices during their Basic Skills Orientation Course, April 27. Hilarides and Ron Ault, Metal Trades Department president, toured the Controlled Industrial Area that day. Bottom: Vice Adm. William Hilarides, Naval Sea Systems Command commander, addresses the Shipyard workforce during a “Sunrise on the Lanai,” April 27.
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