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Members of the Handling Systems Engineering Branch in the Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, the agents participated the first three-week Submarine Tendered Maintenance Period (STMP) at HMAS Stirling in Perth, Australia, marking a significant step in the Australia, United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS) trilateral partnership.<\/p>\n

STMPs are similar to planned maintenance periods that are typically conducted in U.S. submarine ports. They usually last up to three weeks and don’t require the submarine to be dry-docked.<\/p>\n

When factoring in the historical aspect, Braman \u2014 a 14-year employee at Division Newport with plenty of temporary duty travel under his belt \u2014 said his most recent work trip tops the list.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty cool that we did the first modernizations performed in Australia on a submarine,\u201d Braman said. \u201cTo do a modernization on a submarine is nothing. Everyone does it. But we\u2019re the first ones doing a modernization in Perth, and no one can take that away from us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ISEAs worked alongside submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) personnel, as well as their Royal Australian Navy (RAN) counterparts to conduct repairs and modernizations to the ship\u2019s thinline towed array handling system aboard the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Hawaii (SSN 776).<\/p>\n

This maintenance period aided the execution of Pillar 1 of the AUKUS partnership, which is to deliver a sovereign, conventionally armed, nuclear-powered attack submarine capability to Australia by the early 2030s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time since World War II that the U.S. has conducted submarine maintenance in Australian waters, and certainly the first instance in history of a joint American-Australian team performing maintenance on a nuclear-powered attack submarine,\u201d Rear Adm. Lincoln Reifsteck, U.S. Navy AUKUS Integration and Acquisition program manager, said in early September after the STMP was complete. \u201cThe importance of this event cannot be overstated. These last few weeks provided essential maintenance and stewardship experience for our Australian partners in advance of establishing a sovereign SSN force in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

STMPs are a significant step toward achieving the AUKUS Pillar 1 objective.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main thing is that we integrated with a foreign military and trained them on how to do maintenance, repair, troubleshooting and modernization on our system,\u201d Savitzky said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be receiving these submarines at some point, and they\u2019re in the process of building up their infrastructure and capability. As Department of Defense civilians supporting the U.S. Navy, we were at the beginning of that process of integrating with a foreign military.\u201d<\/p>\n

George, Braman and Savitzky embarked on the 48-hour trip to Australia from Rhode Island on Aug. 19. Like any other in-service engineering trip, they had to learn the lay of the land and found the RAN sailors to be helpful and eager to learn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey certainly had a great thirst for knowledge, and they picked up everything pretty quickly,\u201d said George, who has been with Division Newport for 22 years. \u201cThey were very willing to help, whether that was trying to track down shipping pieces or equipment. They were on the ball for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Savitzky, a certified second-class Navy diver, worked with RAN and U.S. Navy divers and Sailors serving on the tender on mechanical and electromechanical equipment in the submarine\u2019s ballast tanks, which is only accessible by diving when the submarine is pierside. Above the water, George and Braman communicated with Savitzky to help execute the modernization, repair plan and inspection list.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe operate as a team and it\u2019s really a team process,\u201d Savitzky said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the diver in the water doing all of the work. I\u2019m constantly communicating with them topside, bouncing stuff off them. It works best when you have someone experienced topside, and someone experienced in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Savage, head of the Handling Systems Engineering Branch, said George, Braman and Savitzky work together often and are among the best in the business at what they do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have a really high standard for each other, and that makes them a really high-performing team,\u201d Savage said. \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been a situation where they haven\u2019t been able to figure out what\u2019s wrong. When other entities can\u2019t figure something out, they\u2019ll call us. Our role is the last line of defense to get something solved. It really requires a high-performing team, and that\u2019s what we have here.\u201d<\/p>\n

NUWC Newport is the oldest warfare center in the country, tracing its heritage to the Naval Torpedo Station established on Goat Island in Newport Harbor in 1869. Commanded by Capt. Chad Hennings, NUWC Newport maintains major detachments in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Andros Island in the Bahamas, as well as test facilities at Seneca Lake and Fisher’s Island, New York, Leesburg, Florida, and Dodge Pond, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Join our team! NUWC Division Newport, one of the 20 largest employers in Rhode Island, employs a diverse, highly trained, educated, and skilled workforce. We are continuously looking for engineers, scientists, and other STEM professionals, as well as talented business, finance, logistics and other support experts who wish to be at the forefront of undersea research and development. Please connect with NUWC Division Newport Recruiting at this site- https:\/\/www.navsea.navy.mil\/Home\/Warfare-Centers\/NUWC-Newport\/Career-Opportunities\/ and follow us on LinkedIn @NUWC-Newport and on Facebook @NUWCNewport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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