01/15/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/15/2025 15:48
By Max Maxfield, PSNS & IMF Public Affairs
Manuel Hermosilla, deputy commander NAVSEA03, Cyber & Digital Transformation, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Dec. 2-3, 2024.
Rob LaTendresse, command transformation officer, Code 100TO, Transformation Office, said Hermosilla's stated purpose in visiting PSNS & IMF was to understand the ongoing digital transformation efforts underway in Shop 31, Inside Machine Shop and Code 1166, PSNS & IMF Media Lab; and to gain insight into Information Technology challenges PSNS & IMF is facing, to better support the warfighting Navy.
While here he visited:
Hermosilla also received a command briefing from senior PSNS & IMF leadership, including Capt. JD Crinklaw, commander PSNS & IMF. Wade Schmidt, chief information officer, Code 109, said his folks provided Hermosilla an overview of how Code 109 serves as the backbone of the shipyard's technological and security infrastructure.
"We highlighted the functions and responsibilities involved in Information Technology [Infrastructure Management, Application Development & Maintenance, Support Services, IT Strategy and Governance, and Data Management]; and in Cybersecurity [Risk Assessment, Threat Monitoring and Response, Policy Development, and Incident Management]," Schmidt said. "Additionally, we emphasized some of Code 109's key initiatives. Mr. Hermosilla showed interest in our efforts and expressed the importance of enterprise alignment. We also discussed the need for additional personnel and funding to keep abreast with the ever growing and changing IT landscape."
LaTendresse said Hermosilla was shown how ongoing digital transformation efforts to improve work flow and data analytics in the Inside Machine Shop are benefitting mission accomplishment, and how current successes are informing future efforts.
"Our command is doing outstanding things aimed at improving the way we execute work," LaTendresse said. "The effort that Shop 31, with assistance from 100TO and many others, is putting into transforming the way inside shop work is scheduled and executed will dramatically improve our capability and predictability in support of our mission."
Hermosilla also learned how the PSNS & IMF Media Lab is embracing a variety of technologies to expand their level of support for the command.
Nick Larrabee, Code 1166 branch manager, and Jason Kaye, Code 1166 technical imaging lead, brought the visitors up to speed on recent wins, to include fast data storage for sharing large data sets, and a proof-of-concept drone inspection inside an SSBN ballast tank at Trident Refit Facility-Bangor.
Brian Kilpatrick, multimedia training project, Code 1166, provided a demonstration of an interactive rapid knowledge capture solution using a tablet and a 3D printed valve.
"During Mr. Hermosilla's visit to the Media Lab, he learned about Code 1166's ongoing efforts with gathering 3D point cloud data in support of various customers to include Code 280, Planning Yard; Code 2370 Nuclear Refueling Engineering Division; the Reactor Plant Planning Yard, and the USS Columbia project team," Larrabee said.
Schmidt said his team made it clear that expanding capability in Code 109 here, and across the NAVSEA enterprise, will benefit the Navy in a variety of ways.
"Building and implementing the Industrial Machinery Support Network is an important part of moving the shipyard forward, especially with regard to exchanging CAD/CAM and industrial manufacturing data," he said. "This will enable specifications for repair parts to be exchanged in real time between various devices throughout PSNS & IMF, and among different shipyards. The IT & Cybersecurity Office can do much more to support the shipyard if provided additional resources."