Tenant Commands

Coast Guard Maritime Force Protection Unit, Bangor
A relatively new addition to NBK Bangor, Maritime Force Protection Unit Bangor conducts maritime security activities for submarines transiting the Puget Sound waterway. The unit is comprised of over 70 active duty Coast Guard personnel, to include two 87' Marine Protector Class cutters, the CGC Sea Devil and the CGC Sea Fox (August 2009). MFPU Bangor is a unique, single-mission unit specially trained and equipped to provide security for Bangor submarine fleet.

Contacts:
Commanding Officer 315-4955
Executive Officer 315-4956
Operations Officer 315-4959
Public Affairs Officer 315-4010

Commander, Navy Region Northwes
Commander, Navy Region Northwest is responsible for coordinating activities of Navy bases in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming. The majority of those facilities are located in the Puget Sound area. Primary mission areas for the command's staff include environmental coordination, regional emergency management and quality of life. While it has coordination responsibility for all naval facilities in the Pacific Northwest, its Commander also functions as senior-in-command for Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Naval Base Kitsap, Naval Magazine Indian Island and Naval Station Everett. More information on the command can be found at http://www.cnic.navy.mil/cnrnw.

Commander,
Submarine Group 9
A subordinate to Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Submarine Group 9 exercises administrative control authority for ballistic and guided missile submarine commands and support units assigned in the Pacific Northwest.

The group commander monitors:
• Shipboard training, personnel, supply and material readiness of Trident submarine off-crews.
• Nuclear submarines undergoing conversion or overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton. • Overall training and crew certification at the Trident Training Facility.
• More information on the command can be found at https://www.csg9.navy.mil

Commander, Submarine Squadron 17
Under Commander, Submarine Group 9, Submarine Squadron 17 exercises command of more than half of the SSBNs administratively assigned to Naval Base Kitsap. The command's mission is to oversee the operational and pre-deployment training/certification of assigned submarines and to ensure each is maintained at optimum readiness to support assigned missions.

The Squadron also monitors the performance of assigned crews on some of the submarines undergoing conversion or overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton and is responsible for certifying those crews for operations as the ships are returned to service.

Commander, Submarine Squadron 19
Under Commander, Submarine Group 9, Submarine Squadron 19 exercises command of some of the SSBNs and two SSGNs administratively assigned to Naval Base Kitsap.

The command's mission is to oversee the operational and pre-deployment training/certification of assigned submarines and to ensure each is maintained at optimum readiness to support assigned missions. Just as Squadron 17, Squadron 19 also monitors the performance of assigned crews on some of the submarines undergoing conversion or overhaul at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton and is responsible for certifying those crews for operations as the ships are returned to service.

Construction
Battalion Maintenance Unit 303 Detachment Bangor
Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 303, Detachment Bangor was commissioned in February 2005 when Construction Battalion Unit 418 (CBU 418) was decommissioned.

CBMU 303 Det. Bangor continuously trains and performs construction in various areas and locations to strengthen technical skills and enhance contingency readiness. Since the establishment of the detachment, projects have canvassed much of the Puget Sound region improving living conditions, environmental conservation and promoting public relations throughout the Puget Sound region. CBMU 303 DET Bangor enjoys some of the most complex and challenging projects of any Naval Construction Force unit in the world. The unit's yearly project funding outlay routinely exceeds $3.3M.

Yearly training exercises in Fort Hunter Liggett, CA, keep the unit ready to deploy in support of Fleet Hospital missions worldwide at all times as well as prepared to provide relief within the United States in the event of a natural disaster. Quality construction projects around the Puget Sound area ensure the Seabee skills used on these deployments are kept well honed.

As the Navy moves forward, CBMU 303 Det. Bangor's Can-Do spirit will blaze the way.

Mailing Address:
4070 Thresher Ave
. Silverdale, WA 98315-4070
Commercial Phone Quarterdeck 396-6290
Defense Switched Network (DSN)
Quarterdeck 744-6290
http://www.seabee.navy.mil

Defense Distribution Depot Puget Sound Washington
DDPW is responsible for the receipt, storage, and issue of material in support of industrial customer base within the region. The command provides transportation services for PSNS and other Naval Base Kitsap Tenants. DDPW is also the major storage and handling point for Level 1/Subsafe material. For more information please contact 476-7473.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile
Unit-11 Detachment, Bangor
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11, Det. Bangor is a five-person independent EOD shore detachment conducting emergent and routine EOD operations involving diving and demolition in support of Naval Region Northwest, Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific, U.S. Secret Service, DoD, Federal, State, local law enforcement agencies.

The commanding officer of Naval Base Kitsap is EODMU-11 Det. Bangor's operational commander, and the unit's Area of Response (AOR) includes all of the Kitsap Peninsula South to the Columbia River, including territorial and international waters off the Western coast of the United States. The detachment also provides exclusive support to the commanding officer of Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC).

EODMU-11 Det. Bangor's manning, equipage and skill sustainment training is provided by Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit-11, home ported at NAS Whidbey Island. EODMU-11 is a special operations sea command responsible for deployment of expeditionary EOD and diving/salvage detachments in support of EOD, mine countermeasures and homeland defense/ security operations within C3F/C5F/C7F. In the case of an incident or emergency requiring EOD support, contact the Regional Dispatch Center (RDC) at 396-4444 or 315-4066.

Non-emergency EOD points of contact are:
General Information 396-6656
Officer in Charge 396-6653

Naval Supply Systems Command, Fleet
Logistics Center,
Puget Sound
Located on the shores of Puget Sound, onboard Naval Base Kitsap—Bremerton, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center (FLC), Puget Sound provides a variety of logistics support services and products to fleet and shore commands of the United States Navy and other military commands and governmental agencies in the Pacific Rim. The Navy's regional broker for Commander, Navy Region Northwest, NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound is staffed with 68 Navy personnel and 322 civilian employees. NAVSUP FLC delivers combat capability through logistics by teaming with regional partners and customers to provide supply chain management, procurement, contracting and transportation services, technical and customer support, defense fuel products and worldwide movement of personal property.

Naval Supply Center (NSC), Puget Sound was established on Oct. 2, 1967, with the consolidation of Naval Supply Depot, Seattle; certain functions of the Supply Department at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; and the Naval Fuel Depot, Manchester. On March 1, 1993, NSC Puget Sound changed to Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Puget Sound, one of seven NAVSUP FLCs managed by Commander, Fleet and Industrial Supply Centers to meet worldwide logistics responsibilities. In an ongoing effort to consolidate supply chain management functions under the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) and to support Commander, Navy Installations and regional commanders, NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound products are geared toward providing total operational readiness and customer satisfaction, while reducing the cost of the Department of Defense through regionalization and partnering.

Core operations of NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound are located throughout the area, including a detachment at Naval Station Everett; Naval Air Station Whidbey Island; Supply divisions at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility, and Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport Division. The Center stocks about 138,000 items of general stores, repair parts, and provisions with an inventory value of approximately $747 million.

Other supply support services include, NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound's Personal Property Office, which processes an average of 20,500 shipments of household goods for military families each year. Personal Property employees support Inbound, Outbound and local moves and SMART WebMove, which can be accessed from home, work, onboard ship or anywhere you have Internet connectivity. NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound's Fleet Logistics Support Center (FLSC) employees provide services individually tailored to ships such as fleet husbanding; Subsistence Prime Vendor support; Material Handling Equipment (MHE); fleet technical screening, and material processing.

The Regional Contracting Department at NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound acts as the Navy's central buying activity for the Pacific Northwest, CNI's West North Central region, Alaska and the Western Pacific. NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound exercises unlimited procurement authority in placing orders and contracts for commodities and services procured to support their customers.

NAVSUP FLC Puget Sound's Manchester Fuel Department is located on the Puget Sound just north of the community of Manchester, Wash. The 234-acre Manchester Fuel Department was established in 1940 to supply diesel and aircraft fuel to the Navy. Manchester Fuel Department is the Northwest's only and the West Coast's largest underground Navy fuel storage facility. The Manchester Fuel Department averages a yearly throughput of 2.3 million barrels of fuel to its various customers, which include United States Air Force, United States Army, Department of Homeland Security and United States Coast Guard.

Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Bangor
Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Bangor traces it lineage from establishment of the former Marine Barracks, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on Sept. 16, 1896. The Barracks grew steadily with Shipyard. Marine Barracks, Bangor was established in January 1964, with the activation of Ammunition Depot. The Barracks was re-designated Marine Barracks, Naval Torpedo Station, Keyport although physically remaining on board the Bangor annex. On Feb. 1, 1977, with the activation of Submarine Base, Bangor, the Barracks was re-designated Marine Barracks, Bangor.

On Feb. 1, 1987, with Marine Corps-wide reorganization of security forces, Marine Barracks, Bangor was re-designated as Marine Corps Security Force Company, Bangor. On July 2, 2008, the company was re-designated to Marine Corps Security Force Battalion. Initially composed of less than 400 Marines, the Battalion has grown to its current strength of more than 430 Marines and 320 Sailors. Currently, Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Bangor is the largest of the Marine Corps Security Force Battalions in the world. Marine Corps Security Force Battalions are independent Commands, capable of self administration, organized to support and accomplish their own particular mission. Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, Bangor is in direct support to Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Since its reorganization in 1977, the Battalion has been awarded a Navy Unit Commendation, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and a Commandant of the Marine Corps Certificate of Commendation.

The Marine Corps Security Force is extremely active in the local community with many key events open to (and directed at) the general public. The security forces also assist and support the annual Toys for Tots drive and aid those in need through food drives and other significant active community programs. The highlights of the year for the security force are the widely renowned summer evening parades and precision drill team performances. This precision drill team is well known throughout the Pacific Northwest and has been invited yearly to perform for the Canadian Armed Forces Day celebration in Canada.

Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar Detachment
Puget Sound
The Naval Brig/Correctional Custody Unit Puget Sound was built in September 1995 and is located at Building 2020 at Bangor. The mission of the Brig is to ensure the administration, security, good order, discipline and safety of prisoners as well as detained personnel from all military services, to retrain and restore the maximum number of personnel to honorable service and to prepare the remaining prisoners for return to civilian life as productive citizens.

Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar Detachment Puget Sound has a well-deserved reputation for excellence.

Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific Detachment Puget Sound
Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific Detachment Puget Sound (NCTAMS PAC DET PS) is located at Bangor with departments at Naval Radio Station Transmitter) (NAVRADSTA (T)) Jim Creek, and Tactical Support Communications (TSCOMM) Whidbey Island. Primary mission areas are include but are not limited to the following mission, task, functional areas. NAVRADSTA (T) Jim Creek department, located near Arlington, Wash., provides operational command and control communications for the Pacific Submarine Fleet by managing, operating and maintaining the AN/FRT-3 Very Low Frequency Radio Transmitting System.

TSCOMM Whidbey Island department provides communication support to Maritime Patrol Aircraft operating in the Northwestern U.S. and Eastern Pacific ocean.

Base communication operations (BCO—telephones and switches) with managers located at Naval Base Kitsap—Bangor and Bremerton, Naval Station Everett, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, and Naval Hospital Bremerton.

Electronic Key Management System services to U.S. Naval, joint and allied forces and other government agencies in the Pacific Northwest region.

Information Assurance networking operations for non-NMCI Defense Information System Network (DISN) connection and DISA Node 151.

Administrative support for Navy and Marine Corps Spectrum Office (NMCSO) Northwest provides radio frequency spectrum support to all Navy and Marine Corps, fleet, joint or allied forces within the regional area of responsibility.

Administrative support for Communications Security/Electronic Key Management System (COMSEC/EKMS) material system advice and assistance (CMSA&A) team Puget Sound who support all inquiries on COMSEC/EKMS matters and is responsible for providing COMSEC/EKMS training, Advice and Assistance (A&A) to all numbered DON EKMS accounts and local elements.

NCTAMS PAC DET Puget Sound can be reached during normal working hours, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 396-6815. After hours contact information is available at 396-6335. CMS A&A Puget Sound can be contacted at 396-6154, Monday through Friday with after hours contact information provided.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is committed to doing all within its realm of responsibility to ensure the operational readiness of the United States Navy and Marine Corps on a global basis. NCIS is responsible for providing criminal investigative expertise and services to the Department of the Navy, United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. NCIS has responsibility for conducting or participating in the investigation of felony crime involving DoN, USN, or USMC personnel, installations, or property. In support of its mission, NCIS pursues three strategic priorities: prevent terrorism, protect secrets and reduce crime.

The northwest field office of NCIS is located in Silverdale and has subordinate offices at Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton who conduct criminal investigations for Naval Base Kitsap (NBK) Bremerton-Bangor-Keyport and the West Sound area. There are also subordinate offices at Naval Station Everett and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. NCIS Bremerton can be contacted during regular business hours at 476­-3650 and after hours by calling 315-4064.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest (NAVFAC NW) is a complex, multi-mission, echelon four command reporting to Commander, NAVFAC Atlantic in Norfolk, Va.

NAVFAC NW provides Public Works Departments to Naval Base Kitsap, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and Naval Station Everett. The geographic area of responsibility covers six states: Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Wyoming.

NAVFAC NW's diversified programs support planning, design, contracting and construction (including the acquisition and disposal of real estate for the Navy) and assist client activities in the application of specialized programs such as energy, environment and base closures.

Major clients are Commander, Navy Region Northwest (CNRNW) and subordinate activities, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC), Naval Hospital Bremerton, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport (NUWC), Navy Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD) at Bayview, Idaho, Mountain Home Air Force Base, near Boise, Idaho and all the Navy Reserve in the Northwest. Similarly, all of the Navy's housing assets in these states are also supported.

Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Office
The Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Office (NISMO) is a tenant of Naval Base Kitsap and occupies moorings E, F and G, Building 550 and one offshore mooring at Bremerton. NISMO is a Government Owned/Contractor Operated (GO/CO) organization. George Sharp, Inc., the present contractor, operates the facility with a work force ranging from 50 to 250 personnel. NISMO's mission is to provide for inactivation, security, maintenance, cannibalization, disposal and preparation for reactivation of assigned vessels. Inactivation entails removing all consumable supplies, emptying all storage tanks, draining all piping systems, laying-up all equipment and gear and coating all exposed surfaces with corrosion preventatives. A dehumidification system is then installed to keep the inside of the ship dry. Cathodic protection is also activated to prevent deterioration of the hull and fire/flooding/ security alarm systems are energized.

Once the inactivation process has been completed, only minor maintenance is required to keep the vessels in excellent condition and ready for rapid reactivation in much less time than required to build a new vessel. The NISMO inventory ranges from 15 to 60 vessels of various size and status.

Naval Legal Service Office Northwest
Naval Legal Service Office (NLSO) Northwest is located in Building 433 at Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton. They also have a branch office at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor in Building 1001. NLSO Northwest provides legal assistance by appointment to active duty and retired military personnel and their eligible family members in the areas of family law, landlord-tenant law, creditor concerns and estate planning. Powers of attorney and notarizations can normally be done on a walk-in basis. NLSO Northwest also provides wills, defense counsel services for courts-martial, administrative discharges and non-judicial punishment.

NLSO Northwest's hours are 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. NLSO Northwest may be contacted at 476-2156. NLSO Northwest Branch Office Bangor's phone number is 396-6003.

Region Legal Service Office Northwest
The Region Legal Service Office Northwest (RLSO Northwest) is located in Building 433 at Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton. RLSO Northwest consists of Military Justice and Command Services departments. Military Justice provides prosecutorial services for courts-martial to area commands. Command Services provides legal advice and support for Naval Base Kitsap, its tenant commands and Commander, Navy Region Northwest. RLSO NW may be contacted at 627-3000 for Military Justice or 627-3400 for Command Services.

Naval Operational Support Center, Kitsap
Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC), Kitsap's mission is to provide leadership, training, facilities and administrative support to 50 Reserve units comprised of more than 850 Selected Navy Reserve personnel in preparation for mobilization and peacetime contributory support.

Navy Operational Support Center Kitsap has been part of the city of Bremerton and Kitsap County since the early 1920s. With a compliment of fewer than 100 persons, the original contingent began operating out of Building 290 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as a Naval Reserve Training Facility under the control of the Seattle Naval Reserve Center. This arrangement continued through World War II and the Korean Conflict with Bremerton supplying ready, trained reservists to augment the active Naval Force. By 1977, the Bremerton Naval Reserve numbered eight units and more than 150 Sailors and was officially designated an independent Naval Reserve Center. Navy Operational Support Center Kitsap also serves as the Navy Mobilization Processing Site for Navy Region Northwest.

In December 2007, the Navy Operation Support Center moved from its Bangor location to Building 1013 in Bremerton. The building is located just inside the Naval Avenue Gate, off to the right.

Naval Submarine Support Center
Naval Submarine Support Center, Bangor provides submarine-unique administrative, legal, operational, weapons, maintenance and logistics support to fleet assigned squadrons and submarines. This command also provides inter-deployment cycle readiness through a single point of contact for all external organizations interacting with applicable fleet assigned squadrons and submarines. They are the glue that keeps the Pacific Northwest waterfront operations together and running smoothly. NSSC also performs other tasks that may be assigned by a higher authority.

Naval Undersea Warfare Center-Keyport
Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, is one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), a part of the Naval Sea Systems Command that is headquartered in Washington, D.C. As a major Navy underwater weapons engineering and test activity, Keyport has the assigned mission, organization and resources to support undersea warfare systems in the Fleet and develop and apply many other advanced technologies to the Navy's needs.

NUWC Keyport's main facility is located 10 miles north of Bremerton, Wash., at Naval Base Kitsap Keyport. Included in NUWC Keyport's organization are detachments located at Hawthorne, Nev.; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; San Diego, Calif. and Guam. Keyport also operates three-dimensional undersea test, training and evaluation range sites in the Pacific Northwest: Keyport Range in Port Orchard Reach; Dabob Bay, near Naval Base Kitsap Bangor; the Nanoose test range on the east coast of Vancouver Island, near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and the Quinault range off the Washington coast near Kalaloch. Small, special purpose range sites are also maintained near San Clemente Island, Calif. and Nanakuli on Oahu, Hawaii.

There are approximately 1,500 civilian, 500 contractor and 20 military employees in Keyport's workforce. In support of current mission and business growth, Keyport is currently hiring engineers, scientists and wage grade employees. Keyport's FY2010 annual payroll was $131 million, 86 percent of which stayed in Washington State. FY2010's service purchases totaled $226 million with an additional $58 million spent on material purchases. Approximately half of those procurement dollars stayed in Washington State.

Mission
NUWC Keyport provides specialized and geographically strategic services in support of Fleet Undersea Warfare (USW) material and operational readiness. As a Secretary of the Navy- designated Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence and America's only Torpedo and Undersea Mobile Target Depot, NUWC Keyport provides maintenance-depot services for MK 46, 48, 50 and 54 Torpedoes, MK 30 Targets, Naval Mines and Acoustic Countermeasures. Raytheon Company's torpedo production facility is strategically co-located within the NUWC installation through a lease partnership with Keyport. NUWC Keyport's depot-maintenance capabilities are coupled with specialized explosive ordnance assembly, disassembly and repair capabilities, torpedo storage facilities and a supplemental light-industrial capability that provides specialized machining, plating, painting, powder coating and electronic/electrical fabrication. These capabilities include the development and implementation of advanced technologies for the fabrication and repair of Fleet hardware in such areas as laser clad welding, electroplating and rapid prototyping using laser sintering.

NUWC Keyport ensures Fleet operational readiness through life-cycle support of undersea warfare systems for submarines, surface ships, torpedoes, undersea mines, land-attack systems and Fleet training systems. Life-cycle support services for aircraft carriers and surface ships include in-service engineering, Fleet technical support, technical assistance and system performance analysis, logistics support, configuration management, industrial process controls and training. The competency base necessary to carry out these mission elements is founded on four pillars: System Engineering, Network Centric Warfare, Distance Support and Integrated Logistics Support. Keyport's Alteration Installation Teams provide acquisition and installation of upgraded systems aboard submarines.

NUWC Keyport operates the Navy's Pacific Northwest complex of cold-water, undersea test ranges where the performance of undersea weapons and vehicles is evaluated. The Warfare Center also operates test and evaluation facilities for USW ships and ships systems located in Hawaii and Southern California. These facilities, co-located with major Fleet concentrations, provide a forward presence for operational readiness assessment, shipboard testing and training support.

The Hawaii and San Diego Detachments also provide mobile underwater targets for the Pacific Missile Range Facility and the Southern California Offshore Range, respectively, as well as for Fleet exercises in approved open-ocean areas. The targets simulate live submarines for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) proficiency training exercises. Our Shipboard Electronic Systems Evaluation Facilities, located in the Pacific Northwest, California and Hawaii-verify, calibrate and certify communication, navigation and tactical data links aboard aircraft, ships, submarines and shore sites.

History
In June 1910, Congress appropriated $145,000 for the purchase of the site at Keyport now occupied by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport and Navy Region Northwest offices and military housing. The original Command was formally commissioned in November 1914, as the Pacific Coast Torpedo Station. By the 1920s, the Pacific Coast Torpedo Station was well established and became a center of instruction with a fully equipped torpedo school. In 1930, the Station was renamed the United States Naval Torpedo Station (NTS).

During World War II, employment at the Naval Torpedo Station grew at a rapid pace, with 2,035 civilians and 821 military on board at the close of the war. The workload of torpedo proofing reached a peak of 100 per day in 1944. The workforce decreased dramatically to 275 in 1946, but significant activity continued after the war as 3-dimensional underwater tracking ranges were designed and installed and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) acoustic homing torpedoes were tested and perfected on those ranges. In 1963, the first joint U.S.-Canadian 3-dimensional range was placed in operation in the Strait of Georgia and is still in operation today. NUWC Keyport detachment sites were established in the mid-1970s. Our Southern California and Hawaii Detachments (known collectively as "Detachment Pacific") provide anti-submarine warfare (ASW) test analysis services and mobile target support and the Hawthorne, Nevada Detachment maintains some of the Navy's inventory of naval mines.

In 1978, Keyport's name was changed to the Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station to reflect growing responsibilities primarily related to undersea warfare engineering. In 1992, Keyport experienced another name change when it became one of two divisions within the newly created Naval Undersea Warfare Center, an echelon-three command established as a result of recommendations made by the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. In 2004, in regionalization efforts, NUWC Keyport became a tenant to Naval Base Kitsap Keyport.

Public Affairs Office
The Public Affairs Officer (PAO) is the official command spokesperson for release of information to the public and media. The Public Affairs Office is responsible for coordination of events involving the local community and maintains a liaison with congressional offices and other governmental public affairs offices. To send correspondence, the mailing address is Commander, NUWC Keyport (Code 00P), 610 Dowell St., Keyport, WA 98345-7610. The PAO may be reached at (360) 396-2699.

KeyNotes
KeyNotes is the Command newsletter that features articles concerning NUWC Keyport's technical capabilities, recent accomplishments, awards, events, visits and employee human-interest stories. The publication is available free to employees, customers and stakeholders. Requests for KeyNotes may be sent to the Commander, NUWC Keyport (Code TMC), 610 Dowell St., Keyport, WA 98345-7610, or KYPT_Public_Affairs_Office@Navy.mil. The KeyNotes Editor can be contacted at (360) 396-2758.

Labor and Professional Organizations
The Bremerton Metal Trades Council (BMTC) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM&AW) represent various groups of Keyport's civilian employees. The BMTC and IAM&AW are members of the Partnership Council at Keyport and negotiate with management on personnel policies, practices and working conditions. The Command also has a consultative relationship with Chapter 99 of the Federal Managers Association.

Recreation Association
The NUWC Keyport Recreation Association is comprised of employees who volunteer their time to sponsor recreational events for the benefit of all military and civilian employees. Operating funds are received from the Food Services Board through a percentage of money collected from food and vending machine sales. Events are planned on an annual basis and consist of a wide range of activities, including family picnics at the lagoon (Summerfest and Octoberfest), ski trips, shopping trips, hikes, cribbage tournaments, photo contests, white water rafting trips, golf tournaments, professional sporting events, salmon bakes and other seasonal events. The Recreation Association also teams with the regional MWR to further offset costs which helps the events be more successful. Tickets for these events are available on Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to noon in the BZ Awards Center in Building 40.

Lagoon Recreation Area
The Lagoon offers an area for picnics, paddle boating and walking trails. The covered pavilion has picnic tables with adjacent barbecue pits. The area may be reserved for large parties on Friday (after 4 p.m.) and all day Saturday and Sunday during the period of March 1 through Oct. 31. Reservations for the lagoon may be made by calling (360) 315-7540.

Keyport Post Office
Just outside the Navy's fence line is the Keyport Post Office, operated by the U.S. Postal Service. A full-service window is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the lobby is open 24 hours. Post Office boxes may be rented. For more information, call (360) 779-4123.

Food Establishments
Food Services at Keyport
The cafeteria ("Torpedo Alley Galley") is located in the southeast corner of Building 489 and is open Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vending machines are located in lobbies and in food service areas in buildings throughout the Base. Food services are coordinated by a dedicated group of NUWC Keyport employee volunteers who comprise the Food Services Board to ensure quality food services for all employees at Keyport. The Board coordinates and administers all aspects of the employee Food Service Program and determines employees' desires and needs for new or improved facilities and provides them, consistent with available funds.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility is focused on providing customers with high-quality, timely and cost-efficient maintenance, modernization, and technical and logistical support. PSNS & IMF has sites in Bremerton, Bangor, Everett, San Diego, Japan and wherever its workers are needed to fix ships.

PSNS & IMF is the largest command on Naval Base Kitsap, employing approximately 10,000 civilians and military personnel. PSNS & IMF is under the Commander, Pacific Fleet, and is operated by Naval Sea Systems Command. The depth of skill and experience inherent to the command's highly-trained work force continues to pay dividends to the fleet. PSNS & IMF personnel repair and maintain the fleet throughout the world.

PSNS & IMF, Bremerton site, resides on 179 acres of property bordered on the south by Sinclair Inlet, on the west by Naval Base Kitsap, and on the north and east perimeters by the City of Bremerton. The Bremerton site is the Pacific Northwest's largest naval shore facility and one of Washington State's largest industrial installations. The Bremerton site is also the first and only shipyard in the world that has deactivated and safely recycled nuclear-powered ships and is widely recognized as the international authority in this field. The Bangor site provides industrial support for the incremental overhaul and repair of Trident submarines and the depot-level overhaul of surface ships, aircraft carriers and equipment in the Trident Planned Equipment Replacement Program. The facility's refit industrial operation, including Everett, is equivalent to that of a submarine tender, but on a larger scale.

Not only does the command employ the latest techniques on ships in the fleet, a diverse group of highly-trained engineers, technicians, mechanics and contractors are busily engaged in providing, maintaining and modernizing highly-technical facilities and shop equipment that supports this work. Highly-skilled production workers in a number of trades execute ship maintenance, giving ships a like-new environment. Engineers and planners keep their eyes to the future, using imaginative thinking, planning and design to keep America's Navy number one in the world.

The Command's standard of excellence and professionalism is evidenced by the many "well done" messages received from ships and submarines following work completion, as well as its numerous awards.

A look back PSNS and IMF, Bremerton site
In 1891, the U.S. Navy invested less than $10,000 in 190 acres of Pacific Northwest wilderness and established Naval Station Puget Sound. This area was established as a result of growing national interest in the Pacific Ocean and a new American naval policy of a mobile battleship fleet. Surveyed by Lt. Charles Wilkes in 1841, the Puget Sound offered protected, deep-water port sites. In 1888, a Navy commission, led by the noted naval strategist Alfred Mahan, was appointed to select a site for a Pacific coast naval station north of the 42nd parallel. Lt. Ambrose Wyckoff finalized the purchase of the original 190 acres for $50 an acre. He formally dedicated the opening of the (then) Navy Yard Puget Sound as its founding commandant the same day, Sept. 18, 1891.

The first dry dock construction started in October 1892 and was finished in 1896. With the beginning of the Spanish American War in 1898, the Battleship Oregon sailed from the Navy Yard Puget Sound 17,000 miles to take part in the naval engagement at Santiago, Cuba. The fact that the Oregon arrived ready to fight proved the value of a West Coast naval base and established Navy Yard Puget Sound's reputation throughout the fleet. Until World War II, the Navy Yard would remain the only West Coast battleship repair facility.

During World War I, many new ships were constructed, including 25 subchasers, two minesweepers, seven ocean-going tugs, two ammunition ships and thousands of small boats. Between 1920 and 1940, the Navy Yard improved its capabilities enabling it to serve a key role repairing battle-damaged ships of the fleet and allies during WWII. Following the U.S. entry into the war, the facility repaired and modernized the five surviving battleships from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Throughout the war, the command repaired, overhauled and refitted hundreds of U.S. and allied ships, including 26 battleships, 18 aircraft carriers, 13 cruisers and 79 destroyers. The Navy Yard serviced nearly one-third of the 1,006 ships in the U.S. Fleet. Additionally, a number of new cruisers and destroyers were built there as well. The work force reached more than 32,000 people by 1945. By the end of WWII, the Navy Yard was designated a naval shipyard, thus changing the name to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

During the 1950s, the Shipyard's major effort was the extensive program of converting the aircraft carriers' conventional flight decks to angle decks as the Navy entered the era of jet powered aircraft. With the start of the Korean conflict, the shipyard was busy in the reactivation of ships and the construction of two ships of a new class of guided missile frigate—Coontz (DLGN 9) and King (DLGN 10). Between 1917 and 1970, a total of 85 major ships were constructed at the Shipyard, including the largest naval vessels built on the West Coast—Sacramento-class combat support ships.

In the early 1960s, the Shipyard was designated a repair yard for nuclear submarines, including the overhaul of fleet ballistic missile submarines.

By 1998, that initial investment had grown into two military bases: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard—now a $2 billion ship maintenance, modernization and repair facility; and Naval Station Bremerton—a world-class homeport for the U.S. Navy Fleet.

The Shipyard is proud of its history as a naval presence on the West Coast and has the distinction of having a listed National Historic Landmark District located within its gates. The district contains 11 industrial buildings, five dry docks, five piers, the hammerhead crane and numerous pieces of historical machinery. On May 15, 2003, the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pacific Northwest, consolidated into one command, thus creating PSNS & IMF. The consolidation improves fleet readiness by allowing the Navy to accomplish the highest-priority, real-time ship maintenance requirements while achieving the most maintenance efforts possible for the tax dollar.

In addition to the PSNS & IMF consolidation, another opportunity to further improve service to the fleet arose in 2003. Surface ship maintenance organizations, including the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Puget Sound; portions of the Commander, Naval Surface Group; Pacific Northwest Maintenance Staff; and Fleet Technical Support Center, Pacific Detachment Everett; joined PSNS & IMF in standing up the Northwest Regional Maintenance Center. The NWRMC now provides maintenance for every class of Navy vessel.

PSNS and IMF, Bangor site, Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pacific Northwest
Naval Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Pacific Northwest, was established July 31, 1981, as the primary maintenance facility for the West Coast TRIDENT submarine fleet, a year before the arrival of USS OHIO (SSBN 726)—the first of the TRIDENTS to be based in the Pacific. In 1998, IMF, then known as Trident Refit Facility, Bangor, consolidated with Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity, Everett, and its detachment in Bremerton, and became IMF. On May 15, 2003, IMF consolidated with Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and became Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, and retained its major command status as the IMF portion of PSNS and IMF, incorporating the 600 military service members.

IMF, with its fully integrated work force of civilian and military personnel, operated refits piers, repair shops and a dry dock located in the homeports of all ships, aircraft carriers and submarines in the Pacific Northwest. They have expertise in hull, mechanical, electrical, electronics and weapons systems repair. IMF responds to meeting the fleet's maintenance and repair needs with on-time, cost-effective and quality service.

IMF is the leader in training Sailors in critical skills within the journeyman mechanical rates using the Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy program to ensure essential at-sea repairs and refurbishments of major systems can be completed without the need to return to port for corrective maintenance.

The Delta Pier at Bangor, so named because of its triangular configuration, can support five SSBNs at one time. It has one of the largest dry docks built by the Navy and is the only dry dock in the world constructed parallel to the shoreline.

Congressional and Public Affairs Office for PSNS & IMF
The Command's Congressional and Public Affairs Officer is the official spokesperson for PSNS & IMF. This office serves as liaison to the public, media and congressional representatives, coordinating special events and publishing the PSNS & IMF employee newsletter, Salute. The Congressional and Public Affairs Office may be contacted at (360) 476-7111.

The Defense Logistic Agency Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate
Maintenance Facility
The Defense Logistic Agency Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (DLA PSNS and IMF) was established on July 19, 2009 as a result of a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) recommendation to consolidate supply and storage functions throughout the Department of Defense. Previously a department of the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Puget Sound, DLA PSNS and IMF is now a stand along command aligned under the Defense Supply Center Columbus.

As the primary logistics provider for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, DLA PSNS and IMF performs supply, storage and distribution functions through its operations at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton and Bangor as well as a detachment at Naval Station Everett. On-site support is also provided as needed at Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Air Station North Island, and U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility Yokosuka, Japan, and Naval Base Guam. Charged with providing the best logistics solutions to our nations' warfighters, DLA PSNS & IMF is responsible for ensuring all facets of the integrated supply chain support our customer requirements.

Navy Band Northwest
Navy Band Northwest operationally reports to the Commander, Navy Region Northwest and is under the supervision of the Director. The 35-member activity performs over 450 engagements annually throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Mountain States regions. Entertaining millions each year, Navy Band Northwest supports a variety of events including military change of command and retirement ceremonies, the annual Seafair celebration in Seattle, the Spring and Fall Public Concert Series at the Keyport Naval Undersea Museum Auditorium, and the highly anticipated Holiday Concert Series performances throughout the Puget Sound area. The talented and versatile musicians of Navy Band Northwest comprise 13 different performing ensembles, each with varying musical styles.

For more information please contact:
Director, Navy Band Northwest
1103A Hunley Road
Silverdale, WA 98315
315-3448
E-mail NavyBandNW.CNRNW@navy.mil or visit our website at: https://www.cnic.navy.mil/ cnrnw/Programs/CommandandStaff/NavyBandNorthwest/index.htm

Personnel Support Detachment
The mission is to provide administrative personnel, pay and transportation support to more than 15,000 active duty sailors at 127 commands covering 1,375,000 square miles in a five-state region. In addition to servicing these commands, PSD serves the local retiree population.

Some of our services include:
• Military Personnel Services
• Transportation Services
• Travel Claim Processing
• Defense Eligibility Enrollment System Support
• Family and Member Identification Cards

Personnel Support Detachment Kitsap
ID Card Offices
ID Card/DEERS services are available at two locations at Naval Base Kitsap. At Bremerton, the ground floor of the Fleet Support Services (Building 1013) is available for services Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon. The ID Card Office at Bremerton can be reached at 627-3370. At Bangor, PSD Kitsap (Building 1050) is located just outside the main gate (Trident Avenue Gate) beyond the Pass and ID office, with services available Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Bangor ID Card Office can be reached at 396-5731.

Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific
Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific (SWFPAC) is responsible for receipt, inspection, storage, assembly, modification, maintenance, repair, on-loading, offloading and delivery of TRIDENT missile systems, in assembled or component form, to the fleet ballistic missile submarines as well as responsibility for waterfront security. SWFPAC is an Echelon III command reporting to Director, Strategic Systems Programs. For area coordination, SWFPAC reports to Commander, Submarine Group-Nine in support of refit operations.

Submarine Development Squadron Five
Detachment, Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Submarine Development Squadron Five Detachment Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV) consists of three officers and seventeen enlisted personnel. The command is an operational and tactical development sea duty component of Submarine Development Squadron 5. The detachment's UUV mission includes the following objectives:
• Directly support the research, development and acquisition of Navy owned/operated UUV systems.
• Provide a core of experienced and knowledgeable Navy personnel capable of conducting submarine launched UUV operations.
• Develop tactics, techniques and procedures for current and future UUV systems.

Transient Personnel Unit, Puget Sound
Transient Personnel Unit Puget Sound (TPU Puget Sound) stands ready to provide outstanding customer service to operating units and Sailors of the U.S. Navy. TPU's mission statement is "Expeditious processing of transient personnel to enhance Navy combat operating forces readiness by providing the most effective and efficient personnel support." TPU is located across from the Bangor Medical/ Dental Clinic in Building 2019. They offer customer service to a wide range of Transient Sailors including those personnel who are awaiting transfer to a new permanent duty assignment whose parent command is deployed, on extended operations (greater than 30 days), or located overseas; they also offer services to those awaiting humanitarian reassignment, for further transfer (FFT), LIMDU/ Physical Evaluation Board (PEB) and Separations or Transfer to Fleet Reserve. TPU has Transient Personnel Detachments (TPD) in Everett and Whidbey Island ready to serve their customer commands at those installations.

Trident Training Facility, Bangor
The mission of TRIDENT Training Facility (TTF), Bangor is to provide officer and enlisted personnel basic, advanced, functional, refresher and team-training in order to increase and maintain knowledge and proficiency in specific skills and to provide specialized training and perform other such functions and tasks that may be assigned by higher authority.

In October 2007, TTF opened a separate training facility for the crews of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The facility, located at the Bremerton base, is the Navy's second Fleet Interactive Display Equipment (FIDE) training simulator. Whereas the FIDE in Bangor is based off of the nuclear plant of a Trident submarine, the new FIDE is an interactive simulator of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. The purpose of the simulator is to train watch standers and propulsion plant watch officers, who direct the ship's plant from control panels. It provides those operators with an extremely realistic depiction of actual conditions for a full range of normal operational and simulated casualty situations.

TTF has been the proud recipient of the Chief of Naval Education and Training Excellence Award in 1985, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005-2007. It was also the first military school to be accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges Commission of Colleges. The TTF phone number is 315-2000.

Additional Awards
• Meritorious Unit Commendation for the period May 1, 1999 to Oct. 31, 2001.
• CNO Letter of Commendation for period Jan. 1, l998 to Dec. 31, l999.
• Meritorious Unit Commendation for period Jan. 1, l991 to June 30, l992.
• Meritorious Unit Commendation for period Dec. 1, l987 to Dec. 31, l989.

USS John C. Stennis USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) is a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier home ported at Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton. It is 1,092 feet long and towers some 20 stories above the waterline. As a self-contained city afloat of over 5,000 Sailors and Marines with the embarked air wing and staff, USS John C. Stennis has virtually the same amenities as any American city with a comparable population. It has a daily newspaper, television station, fire department, paramedics, police department, library, recycling center, jail, 50-bed hospital with an intensive care unit, two general stores, laundries, barbershops and even a post office with its own zip code. Without embarked air wing and staff, Stennis' population is approximately 3,000 Sailors.

USS John C. Stennis is named after one of our nation's most respected U.S. Senators. John C. Stennis, the senior Senator from Mississippi, was elected President Pro Tempore of the Senate for the 100th Congress. As Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1969 to 1980, Senator Stennis consistently supported a strong U.S. military and gained the honorary title of "the father of America's modern Navy."

The mission of USS John C. Stennis and her embarked Air Wing is to conduct sustained combat air operations while forward deployed in the global arena. The embarked Air Wing consists of eight to nine squadrons. Attached aircraft are the F/A-18C Hornet, F/A-18E and F Super Hornets, EA-6B Prowler, E-2C Hawkeye, MH-60R, MH-60S and C-2 Greyhound.

The Air Wing can destroy enemy aircraft, ships, submarines and land targets, or lay mines hundreds of miles from the ship. John C. Stennis' aircraft are used to conduct strikes, support land battles, protect the Strike Group or other friendly shipping and implement a sea or air blockade.

The Air Wing provides a visible presence to demonstrate American power and resolve in a crisis. Stennis operates as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Three commanded by a flag officer aboard John C. Stennis and consisting of four to six other ships.

USS John C. Stennis' two nuclear reactors give her virtually unlimited range and endurance and a top speed in excess of 30 knots. The ship's four catapults and four arresting gear engines enable her to launch and recover aircraft rapidly and simultaneously.

The ship carries approximately three million gallons of fuel for her aircraft and escorts and enough weapons and stores for extended operations without replenishment. John C. Stennis also has extensive repair capabilities, including a fully equipped Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department, a micro-miniature electronics repair shop and numerous ship repair shops.

For defense, in addition to the Air Wing and accompanying vessels, John C. Stennis has NATO Sea Sparrow and rolling airframe surface-to-air missile systems, the Phalanx Close-in Weapons System (an extreme rapid firing 20mm gun) for cruise missile defense and the SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System.

STENNIS Ombudsman
What is an Ombudsman?
When a spouse or parent has a question or concern they can contact the ship's ombudsmen. Selected by the commanding officer, Stennis ombudsmen are spouses of members of Stennis' crew who voluntarily serve as an official liaison between the command and its families.

As a spouse or parent of a Stennis crew member it is important to get acquainted with the ombudsmen. You are encouraged to call or e-mail the ombudsman with any concerns you may have. They are "on call" 24 hours a day for emergencies. Non-emergency calls are taken daily, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.

Ombudsman serve as Information and Referral specialists, referring Stennis families in need to community organizations and military offices such as Family Service Centers, Chaplain's Office, Medical Treatment Facilities, Navy-Marine Corp Relief Society, American Red Cross and legal assistance offices, to name a few. Are You New to Stennis, or Have You Moved?

It is important if you have a change of address, phone number or e-mail address, even if temporary, that you contact your Stennis Ombudsman. If they do not have the correct information they may be unable to contact you with command information. If you are new to Stennis be sure to contact your ombudsmen. They have information to help you in your transition to John C. Stennis.

USNS Rainer and USNS Bridge-Operated by Military Sealift Command (MSC)
The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command is the premiere provider of ocean transportation for the Department of Defense in peacetime and in war.

During a war, 95 percent of all the equipment and supplies needed to sustain the U.S. military are carried by sea. MSC ships, unlike the rest of the Navy fleet, are crewed by civilian mariners. MSC's Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force ships directly support Navy combatants, enabling the fleet to stay at sea, on station and combat ready. Under MSC's civilian operation, each ship is crewed by 160 mariners and a Navy contingent of 28 Sailors. That is in contrast to each ship's original crew size of 544 uniformed Navy personnel. When the ships transferred to MSC, shipboard weapons and combat systems were removed, thereby reducing crew requirements and saving millions of dollars in operating costs.