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American Society of Naval Engineers

Northern New England Section

 Meeting Announcement

Date:       Thursday, October 20th

Topic:      Removal of  grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia from Giglio Island, Italy by the Titan-Micoperi salvage team.  Engineering, operational, environmental and fiscal aspects of the most expensive and complex salvage operation ever conducted will be addressed.

Speaker:  Patrick Keenan served in the U.S. Navy for thirty years as a diver, salvor, and engineer.  At sea he held deck and engineering officer positions aboard ATF and ARS class salvage ships, and was the Seventh Fleet Salvage Officer based in Singapore.   Shore assignments included hyperbaric maintenance superintendent at a diving research facility, drydocking and diving officer in a naval shipyard, aircraft carrier repair officer at a supervisor of shipbuilding, Officer in Charge of Ship Repair Unit Bahrain, Commanding Officer of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit, and Director of the Naval Construction and Engineering Program at MIT.  

His final active duty tour was as U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving and Director of Ocean 
Engineering.  Since leaving active duty in 2012, Patrick initially worked as the Global Director of 
Operations for TITAN Salvage, and is now managing commercial ship repair for Phoenix International 
Holdings, an underwater services provider.

A registered professional engineer and marine surveyor, Patrick earned a B.A. in Chemistry from the 
University of Pennsylvania, and M.S. in Materials and Naval Engineer degree from MIT.  His research relating to waterborne ship repair was published in the Naval Engineers Journal.  He holds a U.S. patent for his invention Method and Apparatus for Thermal Insulation of Wet Shielded Metal Arc Welds and was the 2000 ASNE Claude A. Jones Award winner for contributions to improving operational engineering or material readiness of Fleet forces.

Schedule:  

1700:   Social Hour - Clarion Hotel
1800:   Dinner
1900:  Presentation and Q&A

Location:   Clarion Hotel – Portland
1230 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04102
Phone: (207) 774-5611

Menu:       Buffet: Garden Salad, Grilled Chicken with Pesto Cream Sauce, or Baked Stuffed Haddock, 
Vegetable Side Dishes, Rolls, Dessert

Price:        $30 - ASNE and SNAME Members & Spouses $35 - Non Members; $20 - Students.

RSVP:       Event sign-up ends at close of business Monday, 17 October 2016
Please use event management application Eventbee to sign up for this meeting
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Or contact John Bowen by email: asne.nne@gmail.com or phone 207-363-6732
Become an ASNE member at this event and get this event or your next regular meeting’s meal free.

Past Meeting Announcements

Date:       Thursday, May 26, 2016   

Date:       Thursday, 14 April 2016

Subject:    Design for Sustainment: The OHIO Replacement Submarine

As the current OHIO Class submarines operate through the latter half of their service lives, the Navy has begun the acquisition process to develop the OHIO Replacement (OR) submarine.  The OR submarine class must provide the same level of strategic deterrence with 12 submarines as the current fleet of 14 OHIO Class SSBNs provides today.  This presentation will outline the implementation and innovative tools of the Design for Sustainment program, and how the tools are deployed to provide the OR Program Office the assurance that the chosen design will meet OR SSBN availability goals while minimizing maintenance costs.

Speakers:

Bill Baker, Product Support Manager for PEO SUBS/PMS397; responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive support strategy for the next generation SSBN

Peter Bogannam, SUBMEPP’s Representative onsite at the PMS397 Program Office; serves as the Maintenance Manager and Life-Cycle Engineering Team Lead, focusing on influencing the design of OR for Sustainability

Scott Williams, Chief Engineering Officer for Patrona Corporation; responsible for technical oversight of corporate work and supports the OR Program Office

Place:      Roundabout Diner, Portsmouth Traffic Circle, Portsmouth, NH            

 Price:    $25- Members (including SNAME) & Spouses; $30 - Non Members; $15 - Students.  

 RSVP:  Please use event management application Eventbee to sign up for this meeting   http://ASNENNE.eventbee.com/event?eid=121541913

 Or contact Dave Herbein by email: asne.nne@gmail.com  or phone 207-703-6511    Event sign-up ends at close of business Wednesday, April 6th 2016

Become an ASNE member at this event and get this event or your next regular meeting’s meal free.        

Wednesday, April 13th

Please RSVP by 4/6/16 Tara Tracy-Saunders at (207) 442-7773, or email: ttracy-saunders@alionscience.com

Casco Bay Council, Navy League Presents:

CAPT Gregg Baumann, US Navy
Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving

Subject: Search Effort and Findings on the Container Ship
El Faro, lost at sea on Oct. 1 off the coast of the Bahamas
during Hurricane Joaquin

Menu

Garden Salad
Baguette
Vegetable Lasagna or Chicken Kabobs
Seasoned Vegetables
Cookies
Unlimited Fountain Soda and Coffee (Cash Bar)

Price: $30.00 members, $35.00 non-members
(Members include: Maine Maritime Academy Staff and Maine Maritime Academy Alumni; Active ASNE and SNAME Members)

Please RSVP by 4/6/16 Tara Tracy-Saunders at (207) 442-7773, or email: ttracy-saunders@alionscience.com
Casco Bay Navy League Website www.navyleaguecascobay.org

CAPTAIN GREGG W. BAUMANN
Director of Ocean Engineering,
Supervisor of Salvage and Diving

Captain Baumann is a native of Vestal, NY. He graduated from Clarkson University in 1986 with a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering. Following graduation, he joined the Navy and was commissioned in 1987 through Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI. Baumann also earned a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Post Graduate School and completed the Total Ship’s Systems Engineering (TSSE) program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.

Baumann’s first assignment was aboard USS Gridley (CG 21) serving as the Electronic Warfare Officer, Boiler’s Officer, and the Ship’s Material Maintenance Officer. Following sea tour, Baumann was selected to Engineering Duty Officer and completed training at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center, in Panama City, FL.

As an engineering duty officer, Baumann served as: Project Officer to the detachment of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding (SUPSHIP), New Orleans for numerous Navy, Marine Corps, and Foreign Military Sales small craft new construction contracts; Production Officer for MCM repair availabilities and tasked with standing up a new SUPSHIP New Orleans repair detachment; Production Officer and Diving Officer at the Navy’s Ship Repair Facility (SRF) in Sasebo, Japan; and Assistant for Salvage in NAVSEA’s Office of the Supervisor of Diving & Salvage. During this tour, Baumann was the salvage engineer for many diving and salvage operations including the salvaging of the sunken Japanese fishing trawler off Pearl Harbor, Ehime Maru, the grounded USS LaMoure County (LST 1194) off the coast of Chile, and the oil recovery from the sunken USS Mississinewa (AO 59) in Ulithi Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia.

Captain Baumann continued his career with tours as the Engineering Duty Officer Detailer and Community Manager, Navy’s Bureau of Personnel; DDG 51 Program Manager’s Representative, Supervisor of Shipbuilding Bath, ME; Chief of Staff for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Ship programs and the Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition (ASN RD&A) at the Pentagon. In 2010, he was assigned as the Program Manager for the International Fleet Support Programs Office (PMS 326) within NAVSEA’s Surface Warfare Directorate (SEA 21) where he was responsible for multiple projects in excess of $5B that provided ships, weapon systems, and life cycle support equipment to more than 40 foreign partners.

Captain Baumann assumed command from CAPT Mark Matthews as the Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving in October 2014. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of ocean engineering for the U.S. Navy, including salvage, in-water ship repair, contracting, towing, diving safety, and equipment maintenance and procurement.

Baumann has earned a Legion of Merit (w/ gold star), Meritorious Service Medal (w/ four gold stars), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (w/ two gold stars), and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.