Yearly Archives: 2020

Sellers & Associates, LLC (S&A) announced today an award to support the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program / Naval Reactors (SEA 08) in Washington, DC, the Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna, NY, and the Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP) Groton in Groton, CT. S&A will provide program management, budget and financial management, engineering and technical support, training, and executive services for US Navy nuclear submarine availabilities and Ship Alterations (SHIPALTS).

S&A will provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) level support to ensure Electric Boat (EB) cost and schedule execution as planned for nuclear Alteration Work Packages (AWPs), while preserving the integration of nuclear work priorities within the entire maintenance availability. Expertise will be provided in the structure, development, and use of cost data sheets, in depth knowledge of submarine availabilities, Government oversight, work control, and authorization processes for shipbuilding, as well as in directing and leading the establishment and implementation of an oversight system tailored to submarine nuclear alteration activities. S&A will provide additional expertise in:

• • Program Management: S&A will develop and execute the Project Management Plan (PMP) to conduct the necessary comprehensive assessment to develop recommendations to establish a repeatable contract oversight, performance management, and prioritization of submarine nuclear alterations on maintenance availabilities in private shipyards. S&A will establishment and implementation of required program management processes and methodologies such as performance measurement baselines and change control processes, along with financial management tools, cost control support, and project management tools.

• • Budget & Financial Management: S&A will provide expertise in ensuring the development of cost data sheets and associated reporting leverages shipyard cost collection systems as best practicable while providing the required at least better than historical detail of shipyard cost and schedule performance on nuclear alterations AWPs and Ship Work Line Item Numbers (SWILNs). S&A will provide expertise in cost estimating, financial budgeting, accounting, and cost control regulations, as well as processes and execution systems.

• • Engineering & Technical Services: S&A will provide expertise in the oversight and prioritization of the project planning and execution of nuclear alterations work, S&A will provide expertise and advice on the oversight of shipyard work to promote more effective operations, elimination of unnecessary costs, and avoidance/resolution of prioritization of work between nuclear and non-nuclear AWPs and SWLINs. S&A will provide change control management oversight and analysis of potential conflicts between nuclear and non-nuclear work in coordination with SUPSHIP Groton on progress and changes in non-nuclear AWPs and SWLINs. S&A will provide advice on impacts to nuclear work from non-nuclear performance, and ensure mandatory work is expedited and contractually accounted and certified for the Nuclear Alterations AWPs. S&A will obtain all necessary concurrences to expedite new/growth work. S&A will provide expertise in the integration of nuclear alterations within submarine maintenance availabilities, a well as SUPSHIP authorities and oversight procedures. S&A will also provide analysis and recommendations to support subsequent private yard maintenance availabilities with nuclear alterations.

• • Training: S&A will provide on-going training and development to address identified weaknesses in program/project management disciplines to enhance organic capability.

• • Executive Services: Plan, schedule, coordinate, and facilitate highly technical meetings with senior-level stakeholders spanning SEA 08, NNL, SUPSHIP Gorton, EB, and others to drive progress in accordance with the established goals.

Naval Nuclear Propulsion (SEA 08) has comprehensive responsibility for the safe and reliable operation of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program. It has authority and reporting responsibilities within the US Department of the Navy (DON) – to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) – and to the US Department of Energy (DOE) – to the National Nuclear Security Administration. The program was created under Executive Order 12344 in 1982, and became a permanent federal program in 1999.

The Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) comprises the U.S. Department of Energy locations and personnel responsible for developing advanced naval nuclear propulsion technology, providing technical support to ensure safety and reliability of our nation’s naval reactors, and training the Sailors who operate those reactors in the U.S. Navy’s submarines and aircraft carrier Fleets. The NNL includes the Bettis and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratories, the Kenneth A. Kesselring Site, and the Naval Reactors Facility which have proudly supported the nation since 1946. The NNL has nearly 7,000 employees working at primary locations in PA, NY, SC, and ID. The NNL also has an established presence at numerous shipyards and vendor locations around the globe. NNL is dedicated solely to the support of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The NNL is operated by Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fluor Corporation.

Supervisor of Shipbuilding Groton (SUPSHIP Groton) is the liaison between the DON and Electric Boat (EB) Corporation, engaged in the design and construction of new OHIO Replacement and VIRGINIA Class nuclear powered submarines, as well as the repair and modernization of LOS ANGELES, SEAWOLF, and VIRGINIA Class nuclear submarines in the Fleet. With a workforce of approximately 3,000 personnel, SUPSHIP Groton is responsible to administer all contracts, outfit the ships, ensure compliance with technical and Quality Assurance (QA) contractual requirements, ascertain satisfactory production schedules are maintained, and ensure the final product delivered to the Fleet is ready sail and execute mission.

Work on this 5-year contract will be performed primarily in Charleston, SC, Washington, DC, Groton, CT, and Niskayuna, NY.

Sellers & Associates, LLC (S&A) announced today it is a member of a Ghostrock, LLC, team awarded a NIWCLANT 8(a) Incubator prime contract to provide Programmatic, Engineering, and Logistics Support.

NIWCLANT provides the US Navy with uninterrupted vigilance, fail-safe cybersecurity, adaptive response and engineering excellence by delivering secure, integrated, and innovative solutions to naval, joint, and national agencies. NIWCLANT designs, acquires, engineers, and sustains the systems, sensor connections, cyber network infrastructures and knowledge management services to ensure reliable information is available to only those who need it, where and when it is needed. NIWCLANT’s mission is to serve the Nation by delivering Information Warfare (IW) solutions that protect national security – across a portfolio that includes: communication systems (radios), networking systems (routers/switches), cyber operations (red team/forensics/network defense), intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (sensors/decision support applications), business systems (benefits/personnel), and information security. NIWCLANT’s vision is to win the information war across ship systems, submarine communications, vehicle IT integration, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD), Global Distance Support Help Desk, Cyber, Mobile C4I, and DoD Component Enterprise Data Center. Headquartered in Charleston, SC, NIWCLANT reports directly to the Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego, CA. NIWCLANT maintains additional offices in Virginia, Louisiana, Florida, and Washington, DC, as well as overseas posts in Europe, the Middle East, and Antarctica.

• • Program Management support will span both program and sponsor levels, and include significant stakeholder coordination across Navy, DoD, and non-DoD activities both OCNUS and OCONUS to drive integration across complex systems, disciplines, and activities to achieve program goals through development, production, deployment, operations, support, and disposal.

• • Engineering support will include design, development, integration, systems engineering, and system safety engineering, as well as performance of scientific analytical and engineering efforts necessary to transform operational needs into unique system performance parameters for evolution into improved system capabilities. This support will also include modeling, simulation, and analysis support, including use of models, emulators, and prototypes to develop data as a basis for technical, tactical, management, and strategic decisions

• • Cybersecurity support will include protecting and defending information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation.

• • Logistics support will include implementing ILS as a multi-functional technical management discipline associated with the design, development, test, production, fielding, sustainment, and improvement modifications of cost effective C5ISR and IT systems to achieve readiness requirements. This includes ensuring support considerations are an integral part of system design requirements, can be cost effectively supported throughout the lifecycle, and infrastructure elements necessary are identified, developed, acquired, and supported. ILS requirements span supply support and provisioning, maintenance planning support equipment, technical data, training, facilities, packaging, handling, storage, and transportation, manpower, and design interface, computer resources, Performance Based Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and depot management.

• • Training support will include providing instruction and exercises resulting in the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to assure warfighting capabilities across relevant platforms and the C5ISR and IT systems they operate and maintain. Training support will also include Human Systems Integration (HSI), Performance, and Usability Engineering to ensure designs of interactive systems are safer, more secure, and easier to use, thereby reducing accidents due to human error, increasing system integrity, and enabling more efficient process operations.

Additional support will include research, development, test, evaluation, maintenance, production and fielding of sustainable, secure, survivable, and interoperable Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (C5ISR), Information Operations, Enterprise Information Services (EIS) and Space capabilities. Related functions include: Technological Opportunities and User Needs Assessment Support; Interoperability, Test and Evaluation, Trials and Installation Checkout Support; Hardware and Software Support; Installation and In-Service Engineering Support; Technical Support; System Safety Engineering Support; Training Support; Operations and Training Exercise Support; Software Acquisition Management Support; Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Support; Procurement Management Support for Equipment & Material Procurement; Architecture Development Support; Enterprise Analysis and Assessments Support; Project Management Support; Plan Development, Program Plan Execution, and Integrated Change Control Support; Risk Management Support; and Measurement and Analysis Support

Work on this five-year contract will be performed nationwide and around the world, including, but not limited to, locations such as: Charleston, SC; Norfolk, VA; Norfolk, VA; Washington, DC; New Orleans, LA; Tampa, FL; San Diego, CA; Rota, Spain; Stuttgart, Germany; Naples, Italy; Manama, Bahrain; and Antarctica.