January 25th, 2018

It was recently announced that our ingenious employees will be receiving The Bull Rider Award. We are so proud of them and their accomplishments. I have included a few details about the award and why they are receiving it.

CS Marine LLC's Employees Receive The Bull Rider Award.

The Bull Rider Award was developed by the US Navy to recognize individuals and teams who have shown exceptional services, above and beyond, supporting the LCS program. MMC recognizes the following teams and individuals who have earned this award and thank them for their dedication to MMC and the success of the LCS program.

• Nominated by: John Hansen/Eric Nicholson
• Nominee: LCS-13 Alignment Team:

1. Bill Fecych - 2nd time nominee
2. Bill Kegley - 1st time nominee
3. Jason Wilkie - 1st time nominee
4. Guy Schletty - 2nd time nominee
5. Steve Nabours - 1st time nominee
6. Dave Kieke - 1st time nominee
7. Matt McGowan - 1st time nominee
8. Dan Nesberg - 1st time nominee
9. Andrew Nesberg - 1st time nominee
10. Mark Hayward - 4th time nominee
11. Kyle Hawley – 1st time nominee
12. Bob Demerath - 2nd time nominee
13. Ryan Larson - 3rd time nominee
14. Lance Posey - 1st time nominee
15. John Horvath - 1st time nominee
16. Carol Junak - 1st time nominee
17. Paul Hubbard - 2nd time nominee
18. Jeff Doboy - 1st time nominee
19. James VanHese - 1st time nominee
20. Mike Babic - 1st time nominee
21. John Christianson - 1st time nominee
22. Jeremy Demerath - 1st time nominee
23. Schaun Dixon - 1st time nominee
24. Jason Dolliver - 1st time nominee
25. William Harris - 3rd time nominee
26. Scott Jones - 3rd time nominee
27. Stuart Robison - 6th time nominee
28. Matt Friend = (LM Proj Eng)

Justification: The LCS 13 Alignment Team, a few of which were new to the alignment work over previous hulls, were key in defining with high quality fidelity an accurate and repeatable alignment process covering all BLDG 10 activity and post-launch activity through the sell of final alignment. This process led to the executable alignment schedule and laid the frame work for alignment process innovation on future hulls. The alignment team significantly stream-lined alignment project rotational phases. By using a single alignment team to cover all hulls, as well as using (CS Marine provided) PLS units during rotation, execution of the strain gauge process was greatly improved. The Alignment team earned the confidence of Lamalo (vendor for providing strain gauge data) enough to allow multiple simultaneous moves of LSBs which further decreased the schedule time to achieve shaft alignment and completion of shaft rotational project phases.

-Michelle Brew