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Navy Establishes New Portsmouth Shipyard Construction Leader

Wednesday, September 8th, 2021

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Navy Establishes New Portsmouth Shipyard Construction Leader

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Miami enters dry dock to begin an overhaul at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 2012. (U.S. Navy photo by Jim Cleveland/Released)

The Navy established an Officer in Charge of Construction (OICC) for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine on Sept. 1 as the service starts infrastructure improvement work in the yard. The commander of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic commissioned Capt. Frank Carroll as the new OICC for PNSY, the Navy said Sept. 7. The Navy said thanks to a Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) directive the commissioning aims to best aid in facilities sustainment, restoration and…

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