No vacancy: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard dry docks busy in 2020 and beyond
BREMERTON — It's set to be a busy year for Kitsap County's biggest employer. All six of the graving docks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard are full to start 2020. It's likely they'll all remain full with few breaks — if any — for the duration of the year.
In a letter to the workforce in the shipyard's Salute newsletter, Capt. Dianna Wolfson addressed the need to crank up productivity in an era Navy leaders call the "great power competition" with countries like China and Russia.
"We need to deliver them with urgency and we need to do it on time," Wolfson wrote. "This is our duty to our Navy and country. It’s how we help to ensure our warfighters are equipped with the right capabilities to meet the challenges of the complex and competitive maritime environment that exists today."
Within the six dry docks are:
Dry dock 1: The USS Pittsburgh fast-attack submarine, which arrived via the Arctic in spring 2019, is being inactivated over the next year. It will include the vessel's decommissioning, returning its crew to the fleet and preparing the Los Angeles-class boat to be in storage long-term.
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