Naval Sea Systems Command


The Naval Sea Systems Command is the largest of the United States Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel organizations. From a physical perspective, NAVSEA has four shipyards for shipbuilding, conversion, and repair, ten "warfare centers", the NAVSEA headquarters, located at the Washington Navy Yard, in Washington D.C., and other locations in 15 states and 3 overseas continents.
NAVSEA's primary objective is to engineer, build, buy, and maintain the U.S. Navy's fleet of ships and its combat systems. NAVSEA's budget of almost $30 billion accounts for nearly one quarter of the Navy's entire budget, with more than 80,200 personnel and 150 acquisition programs under its oversight.

History

The origin of NAVSEA dates to 1794, when Commodore John Barry was charged to oversee the construction of a 44-gun frigate and ensure that all business "harmonized and conformed" to the public's interest. Since then various organizations were established and succeeded them to oversee design, construction and repair of ships and ordnance.
Established in 1940, Bureau of Ships succeeded the Bureau of Construction and Repair, which had been responsible for ship design and construction, and the Bureau of Engineering, which had been responsible for propulsion systems. These bureaus traced their origins back to earlier organizations.
The Naval Ship Systems Command was established on May 1, 1966 replacing BuShips.
The Naval Sea Systems Command was established on July 1, 1974 with the merger of the Naval Ship Systems Command with the Naval Ordnance Command. NAVORD was the successor to the Bureau of Naval Weapons and the earlier Bureau of Ordnance.

Command history

The following are the current and previous NAVSEA commanders since 1974:
  • Vice Adm. James P. Downey, January 2024 – present
  • Rear Adm. Thomas J. Anderson, September 2023 – January 2024
  • Vice Adm. William J. Galinis, June 2020 – September 2023
  • Vice Adm. Thomas J. Moore, June 2016 – June 2020
  • Vice Adm. William H. Hilarides, June 2013 – June 2016
  • Vice Adm. Kevin M. McCoy, June 2008 – June 2013
  • Vice Adm. Paul E. Sullivan, July 2005 – August 2008
  • Vice Adm. Phillip Balisle, June 2002 – July 2005
  • Vice Adm. Pete Nanos, May 1998 – June 2002
  • Vice Adm. George R. Sterner, April 25, 1994 - May 1, 1998
  • Vice Adm. Kenneth C. Malley, 1991–1994
  • Vice Adm. Peter M. Hekman Jr., September 1988 – 1991
  • Vice Adm. William H. Rowden, 1985–1988
  • Vice Adm. Earl B. Fowler Jr., March 1980 – 1985
  • Vice Adm. Clarence R. Bryan, September 1976 – 1980
  • Vice Adm. Robert C. Gooding, July 1974 – 1976

    Directorates

NAVSEA's activities are organized under nine directorates at the Echelon II level. The directorates are:
  • Comptroller : Provides financial policy, budgeting, accounting, and manages appropriation areas.
  • Contracts : Awards nearly $24 billion in contracts annually for new construction ships and submarines, ship repair, major weapon systems and services.
  • Cyber Engineering and Digital Transformation Directorate : Delivers enterprise digital capabilities and infrastructure for cyber-secure digital work and innovation.
  • Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations : Gets ships to sea and keeps them ready. SEA04 manages the four Naval Shipyards.
  • Naval Systems Engineering Directorate : Provides the engineering and scientific expertise necessary to design, build, maintain, repair, modernize, certify, and dispose of the Navy's ships, submarines, and associated warfare systems.
  • Undersea Warfare : Provides research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support services to the in-service submarine and undersea forces.
  • Naval Nuclear Propulsion : Also known as Naval Reactors or as the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, responsible for the safe and reliable operation of the Navy's nuclear propulsion program.
  • Corporate Operations : Performs all operations support for NAVSEA directorates and field activities as well as PEOs.
  • Surface Warfare : Manages the maintenance and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships currently operating in the fleet; also oversees the ship inactivation process, including ship transfers or sales to foreign navies, inactivation, and/or disposal.
  • * Warfighting Capability and Enterprise Readiness : Disestablished and aligned within other directorates as of 1 October 2020.

    Program Executive Offices (PEO)

NAVSEA's eight affiliated Program Executive Offices are responsible for the development and acquisition of Navy and Marine Corps platforms and weapons systems. PEOs report to the NAVSEA commander for planning and execution of in-service support, and to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for acquisition-related matters.
The NAVSEA affiliated PEOs are:
  • Program Executive Officer, Aircraft Carriers
  • Program Executive Officer, Integrated Warfare Systems
  • Program Executive Officer, Unmanned and Small Combatants
  • Program Executive Officer, Ships
  • Program Executive Officer, Undersea Warfare Systems
  • Program Executive Officer, Attack Submarines
  • Program Executive Officer, Strategic Submarines
  • AUKUS Direct Reporting Program Office, and Integration & Acquisition Office

    Field activities

NAVSEA has numerous field activities geographically dispersed throughout the country that are providing the engineering, scientific, technical and logistical expertise, products and support to the Fleet, Department of Defense, and other customers.

NAVSEA Headquarters

– Washington D.C.

Aegis Technical Representative (AEGIS TECHREP)

  • Vice Admiral James H. Doyle Jr. Combat System Engineering Development Site.

    Warfare Centers

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