Naval Sea Systems Command

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
Founded	1974 (1974)
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Navy
Type	SYSCOM
Role	Materiel support
Garrison/HQ	Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C., U.S.
Commanders
Commander	VADM James P. Downey, USN
Executive Director	Ms. Giao Phan
Chief of Staff	Captain Milton W. Troy, III, USN
Command Master Chief	CMDCM (SW/EXW/IW/AW/PJ) Blake G. Schimmel, USN

38°52′26.1″N 76°59′44.1″W 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.[1]

History

Seal of the Naval Sea Systems Command (historic)

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.[2] 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 in 1966 replacing BuShips.[3]

The Naval Sea Systems Command was established on July 1, 1974[3] with the merger of the Naval Ship Systems Command (NAVSHIPS) with the Naval Ordnance Systems 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 to 1998:

• Vice Adm. James P. Downey, January 2024 – present[4]
• Rear Adm. Thomas J. Anderson, September 2023 – January 2024 (acting)[5]
• Vice Adm. William J. Galinis, June 2020 – September 2023[6]
• Vice Adm. Thomas J. Moore, June 2016 – June 2020[7][8]
• Vice Adm. William H. Hilarides, June 2013 – June 2016[8]
• Vice Adm. Kevin M. McCoy, June 2008[9] – June 2013[10]
• Vice Adm. Paul E. Sullivan, July 2005 – August 2008[11]
• Vice Adm. Phillip Balisle, June 2002 – July 2005[12]
• Vice Adm. Pete Nanos, May 1998 – June 2002[13]

Directorates

NAVSEA's activities are organized under nine directorates at the Echelon II level. The directorates are:[14]

• 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.[15]
• 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.[16]

Program Executive Offices (PEO)

Main article: 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.[17]

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.[18]

• Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
• Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU)[19]
• Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity (NOSSA)[20]
• Submarine Maintenance Engineering and Planning and Procurement Office (SUBMEPP)[21]
• Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV)[22]
• Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC)[23]
• Surface Maintenance Engineering Planning Program (SURFMEPP)[24]

Facilities

NAVSEA Headquarters

Washington Navy Yard – Washington D.C.[25]

Aegis Technical Representative (AEGIS TECHREP)

• Vice Admiral James H. Doyle Jr. Combat System Engineering Development Site (CSEDS).[26]

Warfare Centers

Naval Surface Warfare Centers (NSWC)[27]

• NSWC Carderock Division – Carderock, Maryland[28]
• NSWC Corona Division – Norco, California[29]
• NSWC Crane Division – Crane, Indiana[30]
• NSWC Dahlgren Division – Dahlgren, Virginia[31]
  • Dam Neck Combat Direction Systems Activity – Virginia Beach, VA[32]
• NSWC Indian Head Division – Charles County, Maryland[33]
  • EOD Technology Division – part of NSWC Indian Head[34]
  • Expeditionary Exploitation Unit ONE (EXU-1)[35]
• NSWC Panama City Division – Panama City, Florida[36]
• NSWC Philadelphia Division – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[37]
• NSWC Port Hueneme Division – Port Hueneme, California[38]

Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC)

• NUWC Keyport Division – Keyport, Washington[39]
• NUWC Newport Division - Newport, Rhode Island[40]
  • Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) (NUWC Newport Det. Newport) – Andros Island, Bahamas[41]

Naval Sea Logistics Center

• Located in Mechanicsburg, PA[42]

Supervisors of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP)[43]

• SUPSHIP Groton – Groton, Connecticut[44]
• SUPSHIP Bath – Bath, Maine[45]
• SUPSHIP Gulf Coast – Pascagoula, Mississippi[46]
• SUPSHIP Newport News – Newport News, Virginia[47]

Naval Shipyards

• Norfolk Naval Shipyard – Portsmouth, Virginia[48]
• Portsmouth Naval Shipyard – Kittery, Maine[49]
• Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard – Hawaii[50]
• Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Bremerton, Washington[51]

Navy Regional Maintenance Centers

[52]

• Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) headquartered in Naples, Italy with Detachments in Yokosuka, Japan, Manama, Bahrain & Rota, Spain[53]
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) in Norfolk, Virginia[54]
• Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) in Naval Station Mayport[55]
• Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) in San Diego, California[56]

NAVSEA Contracted U.S. Federal Laboratory

• Allegany Ballistics Laboratory – Rocket Center, West Virginia

See also

U.S. Armed Forces systems commands

• Army Materiel Command
• Marine Corps Systems Command
• United States Navy systems commands
  • Naval Air Systems Command
  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command
  • Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command
  • Naval Supply Systems Command
• Air Force Materiel Command
• Space Systems Command

References

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2. "About NAVSEA". NAVSEA.
3. GlobalSecurity.org. "Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
4. "NAVSEA Change of Command". DVIDS. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
5. LaGrone, Sam (2023-08-25). "Acting Commanders Set to Take Charge of Naval Academy, Naval Air Forces and NAVSEA". USNI News. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
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8. Eckstein, Megan (10 June 2016). "Vice Adm. Moore Takes Command of Naval Sea Systems Command; Hilarides Retires". United States Naval Institute. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
9. "Vice Admiral Kevin McCoy". US Navy Office of Information. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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11. "Paul E. Sullivan, VADM, USN (Ret.)" (PDF). nps.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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20. "Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
21. "Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
22. "Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV)". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
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28. "NSWC Carderock Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
29. "NSWC Corona Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
30. "NSWC Crane Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
31. "NSWC Dahlgren Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
32. "NSWC Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
33. "NSWC Indian Head". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
34. "Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Department". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
35. "Britt Assumes Command of Expeditionary Exploitation Unit One". Naval Sea Systems Command. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
36. "NSWC Panama City Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
37. "NSWC Philadelphia Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
38. "NSWC Port Hueneme Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
39. "NUWC Keyport Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
40. "NUWC Newport Division". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
41. "NUWC Newport Division-AUTEC". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
42. "Naval Sea Logistics Center". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
43. "Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion & Repair". Navsea.navy.mil. 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
44. "SUPSHIP Groton". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
45. "SUPSHIP Bath". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
46. "SUPSHIP Gulf Coast". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
47. "SUPSHIP Newport News". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
48. "Norfolk Naval Shipyard". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
49. "Portsmouth Naval Shipyard". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
50. "Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
51. "Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
52. "Commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Centers". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
53. "Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center". NAVSEA. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
54. "Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
55. "Southeast Regional Maintenance Center". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
56. "Southwest Regional Maintenance Center". NAVSEA. Retrieved 29 October 2020.

External links

• Official website
• National Archives – Records of the Bureau of Ships (One of NAVSEA's predecessor organizations)