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April 2011 www.sname.org/sname/mt DIVISION TECHNICAL COMMITTEE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OTHER SPECIAL COMMITTEE MODUS MOB SPECIAL COMMITTEE SMALL VESSELS SPECIAL COMMITTEE MATERIALS & WELDING NAVAL ARCITECTURE Existing members and naval panel NAVAL ARCITECTURE Existing members and naval panel NAVAL ARCITECTURE Existing members and naval panel MARINE ENGINEERING Existing members and naval panel MARINE ENGINEERING Existing members and naval panel MARINE ENGINEERING Existing members and navy as appropriate NAVAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE The Technical Committee Ship owners Shipyards Manufacturers Naval architects Marine engineers Underwriters Government representatives INCLUDING NAVSEA05 The Naval Technical Committee NAVESEA05 chair NAVESEA05 group heads NAVESEA05 D PEO/PMS NAVSEA04 CG LIAISON NSWC FLEET LIAISON AND Shipyards Design agents Non-U.S. partners Academia The Naval Technical Committee (NTC) parallels the ABS technical committee structure and operations, with the exception that the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard serve as co-chairs of the NTC. on a number of classes of navy ships. e program was intended to determine areas where ABS could assist the navy and share common knowledge and processes in iden- tifying where maintenance actions are most needed on ships, and recommend focused inspections whereby the continuing health of these systems may be tracked. In 2010, the pilot project transitioned into a full program?the Achieving Service Life Assessment Program (ASLP). ASLP takes existing ABS risk-based survey pro- grams developed for commercial ships and tailors them to the specialized needs of navy ships. Ten naval vessels entered into ASLP in 2010 and another 16 are slated to enter the program in 2011, bringing the total to 30 vessels since the launch of the pilot program in 2009. The requirement to eventually arrive at a 313-ship navy has remained relatively constant, and a fundamental reality has emerged: In order to reach a force struc- ture of 313 ships, it is imperative that those assets already in service are maintained such that they reach their expected service life or, in some cases, be managed such that they reach service lives beyond those origi- nally envisioned. e long-term goal of the navy is for all non-nuclear combatant ships to enter ASLP in order to achieve the maxi- mum service life and mission readiness of the existing naval eet. Developing the NVR and adapting the ship classication process for combatants has been a huge undertaking, stretched across many years. Discussions regarding this initiative initially began in 1996. Serious consideration of pursuing this initiative at the COMNAVSEA level began in 1998. Initial reservations from several seg- ments of the combatant design community were gradually addressed and eventu- ally retired. e desire has been for the members of the combatant design com- munity to take ownership of the process and share in the development of the NVR that we all would use. Broad-based buy-in has been achieved, and some industry as well as Navy leaders involved in pilot NVR implementation have stated publicly that the ships that will be delivered under NVR programs will be better ships than would otherwise have been the case. Applying lean Getting accustomed to a new process is always a challenge. But now that many of the start-up problems are behind NAVSEA, ABS, and the other stakeholders, it is impor- tant to remember that any process can be improved. e next thrust will be to work as a community of practice to apply lean methodologies so that eciencies can be realized. Such a commitment will take ship classication to a new level. This approach has been recognized as having several advantages for the U.S. Navy. It allows the great volume of lower- risk certication work to be vectored to ABS for execution during the detail design and construction phase of a program (i.e., subsequent to navy design approval at the end of the contract design phase). Doing so enables navy engineering resources to be focused in the higher-risk areas, including mission systems and the mili- tary-unique aspects of a ship like shock,