Photo By Danielle Lofton | NORFOLK, Virginia (October 6, 2022) USS Gravely (DDG 107) returns to port after a...... read more read more
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) with the help of Marine Hydraulics International (MHI), Ship’s Force, Engineering, Production and Contracts, completed USS Gravely’s (DDG 107) Selected Restricted Availability (SRA) Oct. 6th, redelivering the Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer to the fleet six days ahead of schedule.
In just three months, MHI's availability support team completed an abundance of vital work that included a pump and motor replacement, a Sliding Padeye replacement, and repairs on the Vacuum Collection Holding Transfer (VCHT) ejector pump. The team also opened and inspected 15 tanks and conducted numerous other structural checks and repairs. With remarkable precision and efficiency, this team completed the availability ahead of schedule in record timing.
“The availability speaks for itself,” said MARMC Project Manager Michael Grosskopf. “The teaming efforts and support from the ship and the contractor was above and beyond what I’ve seen on my past projects. We were able to identify the critical and controlling paths from the beginning and made sure that we hit our milestones and all the work was sequenced to be completed on-time.”
USS Gravely was just one of three ships that was completed this month. USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) completed a 14-month SRA and USS New York (LPD 21) finished an 18-month Docking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) at General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk.
“It was a huge team effort for USS New York,” said MARMC Project Manager Keith Zaccagni. “There's so much support that goes on behind the success of an availability, no one person is responsible. There were five or six occasions where we faced significant challenges. It took finding creative solutions to the problems that we thought would derail everything to continuously find success.”
Maintenance and modernization of the fleet is key to ensuring commanders have the assets they need to win at sea. Timely delivery of those assets provides them the flexibility to operate on a global scale.
MARMC provides surface ship maintenance, management and oversight of private sector maintenance and fleet technical assistance to ships in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and provides support to the 5th and 6th Fleet Area of Responsibilities. They are also responsible for the floating dry-dock Dynamic (AFDL-6).
| Date Taken: | 10.27.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 10.27.2022 14:08 |
| Story ID: | 432135 |
| Location: | NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, US |
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