9 FAIRFIELD, Calif. – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest Resident Officer in Charge (ROICC) Travis completed, this fall, the construction testing and inspection of a newly installed $6.7 million fire detection and protection system in the Corrosion Control Hangar at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif.
Travis Air Force Base Corrosion Control Hangar serves as an aircraft cleaning and maintenance facility for U.S. Air Force C-5, KC-10, C-17, and KC-46 aircraft valued at more than $7 trillion.
“The ROICC office lead the way with the coordination efforts of the many different interested parties for this important Air Force project,” said Jeffrey Griffin, ROICC Travis engineering technician.
9 SAN DIEGO – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division (FEAD) Point Loma completed construction Oct. 29 on a renovation project to Naval Base Point Loma’s (NBPL) historic Building 158 that will now house the installation’s security forces.
The project converted Building 158, which is on a National Register of Historic Properties eligible archaeological site, to a new headquarters for NBPL Security Forces. The building was placed on the register for its role in the Fort Rosecrans Historic District, which had a period of significance from 1897 to 1940. The Fort Rosecrans Historic District played a major role in the development of San Diego as a strategic military center on the Pacific Coast as well as an influencing economic, social, and physical character of the region. The district exemplifies the Colonial Revival architectural styles selected by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps of the per
9 SAN DIEGO – Naval Base Point Loma (NBPL) is celebrating the Dec. 16 completion of a dredging project at its waterfront that will allow access to submarines with a deeper draft.
NBPL is home to Submarine Squadron ELEVEN (CSS-11) and six Los Angeles Class submarines. Though the LA class subs are the primary users of the Point Loma piers, the waterfront also sees a lot of visitor traffic. Those visitors include the Virginia and Seawolf class submarines, both of which have deeper drafts than the homeported LA class.
“The Naval Base Point Loma Dredging Project is a vital effort that directly enables the U.S. Navy to conduct undersea operations in the Indo-Pacific area of responsibility,” said Lt. Cmdr. Ronald J. Uglow, NAVFAC Southwest Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division (FEAD) at NBPL. “This significant undertaking involved constant coordination with the installation’s Port Operations division and Submarine Squadron ELEVEN in order to minimize i