Naval Sea Systems Command#Supervisors of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP)
{{Short description|Largest of the five "systems commands" of the United States Navy}}
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| commander1 = VADM James P. Downey, USN
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| commander2 = Mr. Christopher Miller
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| commander3 = Captain Milton W. Troy, III, USN
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| commander4 = CMDCM (SW/EXW/IW/AW/PJ) Blake G. Schimmel, USN
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The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the United States Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel (not to be confused with "material") organizations. From a physical perspective, NAVSEA has four shipyards for shipbuilding, conversion, and repair, ten "warfare centers" (two undersea and eight surface), the NAVSEA headquarters, located at the Washington Navy Yard, in Washington D.C., and other locations in 15 states and 3 overseas continents.
NAVSEA's primary objective is to engineer, build, buy, and maintain the U.S. Navy's fleet of ships and its combat systems. NAVSEA's budget of almost $30 billion accounts for nearly one quarter of the Navy's entire budget, with more than 80,200 personnel and 150 acquisition programs under its oversight.{{cite web|url= https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161019114423/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/|url-status= dead|archive-date= October 19, 2016|title=About NAVSEA|publisher=Naval Sea Systems Command|access-date=25 October 2020}}
History
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The origin of NAVSEA dates to 1794, when Commodore John Barry was charged to oversee the construction of a 44-gun frigate and ensure that all business "harmonized and conformed" to the public's interest.{{cite web|title=About NAVSEA|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019114423/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|publisher=NAVSEA}} Since then various organizations were established and succeeded them to oversee design, construction and repair of ships and ordnance.
Established in 1940, Bureau of Ships (BuShips) succeeded the Bureau of Construction and Repair, which had been responsible for ship design and construction, and the Bureau of Engineering, which had been responsible for propulsion systems. These bureaus traced their origins back to earlier organizations.
The Naval Ship Systems Command was established on May 1, 1966 replacing BuShips.{{cite web|last1=GlobalSecurity.org|title=Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/navsea.htm|publisher=GlobalSecurity.org|access-date=3 February 2017}}
The Naval Sea Systems Command was established on July 1, 1974 with the merger of the Naval Ship Systems Command (NAVSHIPS) with the Naval Ordnance Command (NAVORD). NAVORD was the successor to the Bureau of Naval Weapons and the earlier Bureau of Ordnance.
= Command history =
The following are the current and previous NAVSEA commanders since 1974:{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/lists-of-senior-officers-and-civilian-officials-of-the-us-navy/bureau-of-ships.html |title=Bureau of Ships |date=30 June 2023 |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |publisher=U.S. Navy |access-date=2025-04-05}}
- Vice Adm. James P. Downey, January 2024 – present{{cite web|url=https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/33501|title=NAVSEA Change of Command|access-date=2023-12-22|website=DVIDS}}
- Rear Adm. Thomas J. Anderson, September 2023 – January 2024 (acting){{cite web|last=LaGrone|first=Sam|url=https://news.usni.org/2023/08/25/acting-commanders-set-to-take-charge-of-naval-academy-naval-air-forces-and-navsea|title=Acting Commanders Set to Take Charge of Naval Academy, Naval Air Forces and NAVSEA|date=2023-08-25|access-date=2023-09-02|website=USNI News}}
- Vice Adm. William J. Galinis, June 2020 – September 2023{{cite web |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6246908/navsea-change-command-ceremony |title=NAVSEA change of command ceremony |date=19 June 2020 |website=Defense Visual Information Distribution Service |access-date=20 June 2020}}
- Vice Adm. Thomas J. Moore, June 2016 – June 2020{{Cite web|date=2020-06-19|title=VADM Bill Galinis Takes Command of NAVSEA, VADM Tom Moore Retires After 39 Years|url=https://news.usni.org/2020/06/19/vadm-bill-galinis-takes-command-of-navsea-vadm-tom-moore-retires-after-39-years|access-date=25 October 2020|website=USNI News|language=en-US}}{{cite news|url=https://news.usni.org/2016/06/10/moore_takes_command_navsea|title=Vice Adm. Moore Takes Command of Naval Sea Systems Command; Hilarides Retires|last1=Eckstein|first1=Megan|date=10 June 2016|access-date=3 February 2017|publisher=United States Naval Institute}}
- Vice Adm. William H. Hilarides, June 2013 – June 2016
- Vice Adm. Kevin M. McCoy, June 2008{{cite web|url= https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Biographies/BioDisplay/Article/2361430/vice-admiral-kevin-mccoy/|title=Vice Admiral Kevin McCoy|publisher=US Navy Office of Information|access-date=26 October 2020}} – June 2013{{cite news|url=https://news.usni.org/2013/06/10/mccoy-departs-navsea|title=McCoy Departs NAVSEA|last1=LaGrone|first1=Sam|date=10 June 2013|access-date=3 February 2017|publisher=United States Naval Institute}}
- Vice Adm. Paul E. Sullivan, July 2005 – August 2008{{cite web|url=https://nps.edu/documents/104914977/113215482/VADM_Sullivan_Bio.pdf|title=Paul E. Sullivan, VADM, USN (Ret.)|publisher=nps.edu|access-date=26 October 2020}}
- Vice Adm. Phillip Balisle, June 2002 – July 2005{{cite web|url=https://www.marinelink.com/news/balisle-navsea-takes318139|title=Vice Adm. Phillip Balisle Takes Helm at NAVSEA|last1=Nagel|first1=David|website=MarineLink|date=3 July 2002 |publisher=United States Navy|access-date=26 October 2020}}
- Vice Adm. Pete Nanos, May 1998 – June 2002{{cite web|url=https://www.marinelink.com/news/admiral-retires-nanos317894|title=Vice Admiral Nanos Retires|last1=Nagel|first1=David|website=MarineLink|date=August 2002 |publisher=United States Navy|access-date=26 October 2020}}
- Vice Adm. George R. Sterner, April 25, 1994 - May 1, 1998 {{cite web|title=Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 42|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1998-04-03/html/CREC-1998-04-03-pt1-PgS3224-2.htm}}
- Vice Adm. Kenneth C. Malley, 1991–1994
- Vice Adm. Peter M. Hekman Jr., September 1988 – 1991
- Vice Adm. William H. Rowden, 1985–1988
- Vice Adm. Earl B. Fowler Jr., March 1980 – 1985
- Vice Adm. Clarence R. Bryan, September 1976 – 1980
- Vice Adm. Robert C. Gooding, July 1974 – 1976
Directorates
NAVSEA's activities are organized under nine directorates at the Echelon II level. The directorates are:{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/who-we-are/headquarters/|title=NAVSEA Command Leadership|publisher=Naval Sea Systems Command|access-date=27 October 2020}}
- Comptroller (SEA 01): Provides financial policy, budgeting, accounting, and manages appropriation areas.
- Contracts (SEA 02): Awards nearly $24 billion in contracts annually for new construction ships and submarines, ship repair, major weapon systems and services.
- Cyber Engineering and Digital Transformation Directorate (SEA 03): Delivers enterprise digital capabilities and infrastructure for cyber-secure digital work and innovation.{{cite web|url=https://news.usni.org/2020/05/27/new-cyber-office-will-unify-navseas-digital-efforts|title=New Cyber Office Will Unify NAVSEA's Digital Efforts|publisher=USNI News|date=27 May 2020|access-date=27 October 2020}}
- Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations (SEA 04): Gets ships to sea and keeps them ready. SEA04 manages the four Naval Shipyards.
- Naval Systems Engineering Directorate (SEA 05): Provides the engineering and scientific expertise necessary to design, build, maintain, repair, modernize, certify, and dispose of the Navy's ships, submarines, and associated warfare systems.
- Undersea Warfare (SEA 07): Provides research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support services to the in-service submarine and undersea forces.
- Naval Nuclear Propulsion (SEA 08): Also known as Naval Reactors or as the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, responsible for the safe and reliable operation of the Navy's nuclear propulsion program.
- Corporate Operations (SEA 10): Performs all operations support for NAVSEA directorates and field activities as well as PEOs.
- Surface Warfare (SEA 21): Manages the maintenance and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships currently operating in the fleet; also oversees the ship inactivation process, including ship transfers or sales to foreign navies, inactivation, and/or disposal.
- Warfighting Capability and Enterprise Readiness (SEA 06): Disestablished and aligned within other directorates as of 1 October 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/SavedNewsModule/Article/2373693/navsea-06-disestablished-components-reintegrated/|title=NAVSEA 06 disestablished, components reintegrated|publisher=NAVSEA|date=6 October 2020|access-date=27 October 2020}}
Program Executive Offices (PEO)
{{Main|Naval Sea Systems Command Program Executive Offices}}
NAVSEA's eight affiliated Program Executive Offices (PEOs) are responsible for the development and acquisition of Navy and Marine Corps platforms and weapons systems. PEOs report to the NAVSEA commander for planning and execution of in-service support, and to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) for acquisition-related matters.{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/Program-Executive-Offices/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019114820/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/Program-Executive-Offices/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=Program Executive Offices|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=26 October 2020}}
The NAVSEA affiliated PEOs are:
- Program Executive Officer, Aircraft Carriers (PEO Carriers)
- Program Executive Officer, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS)
- Program Executive Officer, Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC)
- Program Executive Officer, Ships (PEO Ships)
- Program Executive Officer, Undersea Warfare Systems (PEO UWS)
- Program Executive Officer, Attack Submarines (PEO SSN)
- Program Executive Officer, Strategic Submarines (PEO SSBN)
- AUKUS Direct Reporting Program Office, and Integration & Acquisition Office
Field activities
NAVSEA has numerous field activities geographically dispersed throughout the country that are providing the engineering, scientific, technical and logistical expertise, products and support to the Fleet, Department of Defense, and other customers.{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/NAVSEA-Activities/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019114731/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/NAVSEA-Activities/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=Field Activities|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=27 October 2020}}
- Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
- Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU){{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSALV/NEDU/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019023632/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSALV/NEDU/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=Navy Experimental Diving Unit|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity (NOSSA){{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/NOSSA/About-NOSSA/|title=Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Submarine Maintenance Engineering and Planning and Procurement Office (SUBMEPP){{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUBMEPP/Who-We-Are/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019023240/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUBMEPP/Who-We-Are/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV){{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSALV/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019023446/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSALV/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV)|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC){{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SCSC/|title=Surface Combat Systems Center|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Surface Maintenance Engineering Planning Program (SURFMEPP){{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/NAVSEA-21/SURFMEPP/|title=Surface Maintenance Engineering Planning Program (SURFMEPP)|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
Facilities
= NAVSEA Headquarters =
= Aegis Technical Representative (AEGIS TECHREP) =
= Warfare Centers =
== [[Naval Surface Warfare Center|Naval Surface Warfare Centers (NSWC)]] ==
- NSWC Carderock Division – Carderock, Maryland{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/|title=NSWC Carderock Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- NSWC Corona Division – Norco, California{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Who-We-Are/|title=NSWC Corona Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- NSWC Crane Division – Crane, Indiana{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Crane/Who-We-Are/About/|title=NSWC Crane Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- NSWC Dahlgren Division – Dahlgren, Virginia{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/About-Dahlgren-Division/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019072622/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/About-Dahlgren-Division/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=NSWC Dahlgren Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Dam Neck Combat Direction Systems Activity – Virginia Beach, VA{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/Dam-Neck/|title=NSWC Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- NSWC Indian Head Division – Charles County, Maryland{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Indian-Head/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919001304/https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Indian-Head/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2020|title=NSWC Indian Head|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- EOD Technology Division – part of NSWC Indian Head{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Indian-Head/What-We-Do/Technical-Departments/EOD-Dept-Related-Org-Elements/|title=Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Department|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Expeditionary Exploitation Unit ONE (EXU-1){{Cite web|title=Britt Assumes Command of Expeditionary Exploitation Unit One|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/SavedNewsModule/Article/2271598/britt-assumes-command-of-expeditionary-exploitation-unit-one/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417192317/https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Media/News/SavedNewsModule/Article/2271598/britt-assumes-command-of-expeditionary-exploitation-unit-one/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2021|access-date=2020-11-16|website=Naval Sea Systems Command|language=en-US}}
- NSWC Panama City Division – Panama City, Florida{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Panama-City/Who-We-Are/|title=NSWC Panama City Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- NSWC Philadelphia Division – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Philadelphia/Who-We-Are/|title=NSWC Philadelphia Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- NSWC Port Hueneme Division – Port Hueneme, California{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Port-Hueneme/Who-We-Are/|title=NSWC Port Hueneme Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
== [[Naval Undersea Warfare Center|Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)]] ==
- NUWC Keyport Division – Keyport, Washington{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Keyport/|title=NUWC Keyport Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=13 April 2016}}
- NUWC Newport Division - Newport, Rhode Island{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Newport/Who-We-Are/|title=NUWC Newport Division|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) (NUWC Newport Det. Newport) – Andros Island, Bahamas{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Newport/What-We-Do/Detachments/AUTEC/|title=NUWC Newport Division-AUTEC|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
== Naval Sea Logistics Center ==
= Supervisors of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP) =
- SUPSHIP Groton – Groton, Connecticut{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Groton/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019032715/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Groton/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=SUPSHIP Groton|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- SUPSHIP Bath – Bath, Maine{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Bath/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019032453/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Bath/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=SUPSHIP Bath|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- SUPSHIP Gulf Coast – Pascagoula, Mississippi{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Gulf-Coast/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019032851/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Gulf-Coast/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=SUPSHIP Gulf Coast|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- SUPSHIP Newport News – Newport News, Virginia{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Newport-News/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019033004/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSHIP/Newport-News/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=SUPSHIP Newport News|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
= Naval Shipyards =
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard – Portsmouth, Virginia{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/Norfolk/|title=Norfolk Naval Shipyard|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard – Kittery, Maine{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/Portsmouth/|title=Portsmouth Naval Shipyard|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard – Hawaii{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/PHNS-IMF/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019021816/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/PHNS-IMF/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 19, 2016|title=Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Bremerton, Washington{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/PSNS-IMF/|title=Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
= Navy Regional Maintenance Centers =
- Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) headquartered in Naples, Italy with Detachments in Yokosuka, Japan, Manama, Bahrain & Rota, Spain{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/RMC/FDRMC/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206105543/http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/RMC/FDRMC/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2018|title=Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=19 June 2023}}
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) in Norfolk, Virginia{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/RMC/MARMC/Who-We-Are/|title=Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) in Naval Station Mayport{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/RMC/SERMC/About-Us/|title=Southeast Regional Maintenance Center|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
- Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) in San Diego, California{{cite web|url=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/RMC/SWRMC/About/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509164751/https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/RMC/SWRMC/About/|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 9, 2019|title=Southwest Regional Maintenance Center|publisher=NAVSEA|access-date=29 October 2020}}
= NAVSEA Contracted U.S. Federal Laboratory =
See also
U.S. Armed Forces systems commands
References
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External links
- [https://www.navsea.navy.mil/ Official website]
- [https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/019.html National Archives – Records of the Bureau of Ships] (One of NAVSEA's predecessor organizations)
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