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Friday, April 22, 2022

Bollinger Refurbishing Dry Docks

Here’s one of those rare posts in which I’m simply repeating news from other sources and have no value-added content to offer.
 
The Navy has awarded Bollinger Shipyards a $33M contract to refurbish components of two dry docks under the Navy’s $21B, 20 year Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) plan.[1]  These docks will be used to support submarines in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Kittery, Maine).
 
It is just so nice to be able to describe a positive, beneficial action by the Navy albeit one that is many years overdue and highlights the Navy’s decades long, gross incompetence and negligence.  Still, it’s a positive and welcome step that ComNavOps wholeheartedly approves of!
 
 
 
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[1]Breaking Defense, “Bollinger Shipyards wins Navy contract to finish first two SIOP dry docks”, Justin Katz, 21-Apr-2022,
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/bollinger-shipyards-wins-navy-contract-to-finish-first-two-siop-dry-docks/

5 comments:

  1. So what others need refurbishing/rebuilding, and what is the Navy's schedule for accomplishing all of them?

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    1. "what others need refurbishing/rebuilding"

      All of them!

      "what is the Navy's schedule for accomplishing all of them?"

      20 year SIOP plan.

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    2. Not sure if correct but my understanding the 20 year SIOP $21 billion (a wild guess) program is purely for the four nuclear capable/certified public shipyards which near 100% committed to CVN's and subs maintenance, no investment in the private shipyards that carry out the maintenance on the Navy's conventional ships, Burkes, amphibs, oilers etc

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    3. "my understanding the 20 year SIOP $21 billion (a wild guess) program is purely for the four nuclear capable/certified public shipyards"

      Yes, the SIOP is for the public shipyards.

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  2. I remember when SIOP was the acronym for nuclear warfare. Now it's fixing dry docks. The times, they are a-changing.

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