ComNavOps constantly looks for positive news about the Navy but seldom finds any so this is a very welcome, very positive development. The Navy is beginning to follow through on previous promises to upgrade the public shipyards (see, “Shipyard Improvement Plan”).
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) awarded a $1.7-billion construction project Aug. 13 to expand and reconfigure a dry dock complex at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, to increase the shipyard's capacity to maintain, modernize, and repair the Navy's attack submarines and return them to the fleet on time. (1)
The seven-year project, part of the Navy’s comprehensive Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP), will construct an addition to Dry Dock 1 within the existing flood basin area, as well as new concrete floors, walls, pump systems, caissons, and other mechanical and electrical utilities, enhancing the 221-year-old shipyard’s ability to handle multiple Los Angeles-class and Virginia-class submarines. (1)
I don’t really have anything to add to this and I normally don’t simply repeat news items without any value-added analysis but this is just too good not to take note of and ‘celebrate’.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Outstanding, Navy!
I love being able to say that.
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(1)Naval News website, “U.S. Navy Investing $1.7 Billion to Improve Portsmouth Naval Shipyard”, Staff, 18-Aug-2021,
It's about time. Will the Navy follow through with plans to upgrade other shipyards in case something goes wrong with Portsmouth, e.g., if it's attacked in wartime?
ReplyDeleteHow can there be only 1 comment about this excellent news?
ReplyDeleteSadly, most people just focus on simply glamour items- BIG SHIPS, MORE MISSILES, MORE BIG GUNS.
Logistics is so vitally important.
This upgrade is very welcome, and yet more needs to be done, imho
Andrew