As the Navy seeks to grow and modernize its fleet over the next 30 years, the power of American Manufacturing will again answer the "call to ams" to ensure we can defend our nation and protect our way of life. This "no fail" task will challenge American manufacturing in magnitudes and ways last seen during World War II when Freedom's Forge gave our armed forces the equipment and tools to fight and win. America is a different country than it was in 1941, yet today's security challenges are placing pressure on our nation's Defense Industrial Base (DIB) not faced in over eight decades.

To confront these obstacles head-on, the Navy has launched the Talent Pipeline Program (TPP) — an ambitious nationwide initiative to train, coach, encourage, and recognize small and medium-sized employers on how to improve the performance of talent acquisition and retention systems to run a better business and increase their manufacturing and sustainment capacity to meet the Navy demand. Its mission is paramount: empowering the defense industrial base to meet unprecedented submarine and defense production demands over the next three decades and beyond. The then PEO Columbia used a data-driven approach to identify States and regions with large numbers of submarine industrial base suppliers. With the highest concentration of small/medium sized manufacturers supporting Navy shipbuilding, Philadelphia was selected as the pilot region.

Mr. Kevin Barto

Kevin Barto has been a member of the TMG Team since September 2013. TMG Inc. is a values driven High Performance Team Program Management Services Company dedicated to Continuous Improvement and providing our client partners with World Class Expertise, Flawless Execution, Self-Governing Program Management, In-Process Agility and an unwavering focus on solving the “Big Picture” problem. We win when only when our partners win! Following industry best practices and Lean Six Sigma Methodology, TMG analyzes, designs, develops, pilots, implements and transitions custom Team Performance Improvement Systems for any operational circumstance.

Kevin was instrumental in the program development of TMG’s modernized approach to implementing Team Performance Improvement Systems where the focus is to improve business performance by baselining the team on current state, creating goal alignment from management to first line leaders, and increasing team engagement through improving leader behaviors. Kevin is a highly capable Program Manager with experience managing multiple complex programs at once. Since beginning with TMG in 2013, Kevin has worked with over 500 leaders throughout the manufacturing industry, providing coaching and the tools to engage their teams and ultimately enabling them to get more out of their 8-hour day. Kevin has managed Programs that include, Building Future Leader Bench Strength, Talent Acquisition and Retention, Lean Training and Kaizen Facilitation, and Six Sigma Training.

In his current role, Kevin is the Program Manager for the Navy Sponsored Virginia Talent Pipeline Project. Kevin and his team’s mission is to build a team of employers, training providers and facilitators to help the submarine industrial base employers build reliable year over year talent pipelines to increase their capacity to support our nation’s defense. Previous client partners include: Dentsply Sirona – York, PA (2014-2015), Howmet Alloy – Dover, NJ (2015-2016), Howmet Dover Castings - Dover, NJ (2015-2018), Plasser American Corp. – Chesapeake, VA (2018-2019), Howmet Hampton Structural Castings – Hampton, VA (2019-2020), Fairlead – Portsmouth, VA (2020-2022).

Kevin is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt by the American Society for Quality and has a Bachelor’s in Science from Old Dominion University in Occupational and Technical Studies with a Training Specialist concentration.