Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Christian Victor Bautista | Norfolk Naval Shipyard sponsored its 3rd Annual Industry Day Jan. 15, 2025, with more...... read more read more
Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) sponsored its 3rd Annual Industry Day Jan. 15. Industry Day gives NNSY and contractors the opportunity to engage and share future work scope requirements supporting the shipyard mission of on-time delivery of ships back to the Fleet.
Each year, the event grows, and more than 50 companies participated this year. A Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) 555 representative also attended to provide additional insight into NNSY’s future needs with the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) working to modernize shipyard facilities and equipment.
“We started a strategic acquisition forecast in 2019, which allows us to say in the next seven years these are the services we are going to be looking for,” said Norfolk Naval Shipyard Service Acquisition Program Manager Matthew Daigle. “Our forecast provides the public sector with a crystal ball of what we are going to be looking for, whether its raw numbers as far as organic resources or special capabilities and qualifications that contractors need to get.”
Industry Day provides NNSY with the opportunity to provide context of what is going to be outsourced to contractors.
The strategic acquisition forecast saves time and money by foreseeing what NNSY needs for their projects before they begin soliciting contracts.
Industry Day gives NNSY the opportunity to share their acquisition forecast with potential vendors. Contractors may require time to augment their resources or obtain the special qualifications and capabilities that they need to fulfill the government’s contracts.
“Industry Day also provides the shipyard with an excellent opportunity to get some type of view into the private sector’s abilities to introduce new technology,” said Daigle.
Another benefit to Industry Day is networking opportunities. Contractors can network and connect with other vendors that may be able to provide the support they need to meet NNSY’s current and future mission requirements.
“It provides the government with better services because that contractor now knows ‘hey, I can provide 95 percent of what the government wants but the other 5 percent the contractor may not be able to provide,’ but Industry Day gives them the venue to engage with contractors that offer the five percent they need.”
Industry Day is tremendously important to NNSY in meeting its current and future mission requirements.
“I would personally say that Industry Day 2025 in downtown Norfolk was a huge success with Matt Daigle and his business office team leading this significant effort,” said Norfolk Naval Shipyard Code 300 Off-yard Operations Patrick Ensley. “Mr. Daigle communicated our workload well, and we had a great turnout of potential future contractors that will support NNSY in the future.”
Ensley continued, “The current NNSY workforce cannot perform the volume of critical maintenance on our own, so this professional platform allowed us to share vital information about contracted work and have meaningful face-to-face dialogue regarding the support required for both maintenance on our naval warships and the required improvements to our infrastructure.”
Each of the four shipyards host their own Industry Day and network on lessons learned, creating significant potential for the four shipyards to collectively benefit from each other’s events now and into the future.
| Date Taken: | 03.13.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 03.14.2025 12:23 |
| Story ID: | 492770 |
| Location: | PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, US |
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