The lessons learned - times four: America's public shipyards deliver quality fleet support

Article Abstract:

The four US naval shipyards (NSYs) namely, Portsmouth in Kittery in Maine, Norfolk in Portsmouth in Virginia, Puget Sound in Bremerton in Washington and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii have played an important role in supporting national defense and fighting the war against terrorism by providing ship modernization, maintenance and repair capabilities. The U.S. NSYs are capable of being flexible, and concentrate on delivering quality ship maintenance at low cost and within time limitations.

Product quality, Quality management, Naval vessels, Warships, Navy-yards and naval stations, Naval shipyards

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SHIPMAIN - reengineering for a culture of readiness

Article Abstract:

Ship maintenance processes must be more responsive to surge deployments, and redundancies in maintenance processes among organizations should be removed. SHIPMAIN, which is a new concept of one shipyard for the nation, gives the flexibility to support continuous maintenance aboard ship as it examines and eliminates the redundancies in the maintenance processes.

Ships, Reengineering (Management), Reengineering

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Building a foundation of future readiness

Article Abstract:

Coast GuardEs Integrated Deepwater System would bring important new capabilities to the Coast GuardEs maritime homeland-security, national-security, and other mission sets. DeepwaterEs Integrated Logistics System (ILS), would provide the foundation needed to support the transformation of the Coast GuardEs operational capabilities.

Usage, Safety and security measures, United States. Coast Guard, Integrated logistic support

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