Officer-in-charge of COnstruction Pearl Harbor Naval ShipYard

MISSION:
The Officer in Charge of Construction, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (OICC PHNSY) delivers Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) facilities, utilities, and other supporting infrastructure to optimize Navy Attack Submarine overhaul, repair and modernization.

VISION:
We exist to deliver SIOP construction projects enabling Fleet warfighter readiness. As an Echelon IV command within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), we exercise NAVFAC technical and acquisition authorities and apply engineering, construction and acquisition expertise directly contributing to National Deterrence. DD5 and SIOP repair construction supports the No ka Oi shipyard legacy with increased nuclear ship maintenance.

DRY DOCK 5 CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS UPDATE: JUNE 2026

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Construction continues on the Navy’s largest military construction project at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, managed by Officer in Charge of Construction Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (OICC PHNSY).

Progress includes installation of the dewatering struts, completion of precast pile driving at the East Substation, ongoing land reclamation activities, the start of pump well tension pile installation on June 4, the beginning of North Cofferdam pile installation on June 25, continued construction of the fire water pump house, and installation of 893 of 1,305 crane rail piles as of June 25.

The project also reached a major milestone on June 7 with its largest concrete placement to date: approximately 1,900 cubic yards of underwater tremie concrete for the South Headwall.

240224-N-EL904-0011 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Adm. Samuel Paparo, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, provides remarks at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) Dry Dock 5 Anchoring Ceremony Feb. 24, 2024. The ceremony celebrated an early construction milestone, marking the installation of piles that will anchor the foundational footprint of Dry Dock 5 at PHNSY & IMF. This is the first graving dock built in Pearl Harbor since 1943 and the highest-value single construction project in the history of the Navy. The new dry dock will enhance PHNSY & IMF’s mission to repair, maintain, and modernize Navy fast-attack submarines and surface ships, keeping them Fit to Fight. U.S. Navy photo by Justice Vannatt

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF Dry Dock 5 Anchoring Ceremony

Justice Vannatta
Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono adds her name to history at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) Dry Dock 5 Anchoring Ceremony as she signs a pile that will become part of the first new dry dock to be built at PHNSY & IMF since 1943.

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Dry Dock 5 Anchoring Ceremony
Construction is underway for the new Dry Dock 5 project at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility March 18, 2024.

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Dry Dock 5 Construction

Joel Onemu

Dry Dock 5 Information

Dragados/Hawaiian Dredging/Orion JV, Honolulu, Hawaii, was awarded a $2,839,880,250 firm-fixed price task order (N62742-23-F-4007) under previously awarded multiple award construction contract for the construction of a concrete dry dock at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Work will be performed in Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by September 2027. This contract is part of the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) which is a holistic plan that integrates all infrastructure and industrial plant equipment investments at the Navy’s four public shipyards to meet nuclear fleet maintenance requirements. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Pacific, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

Additional information regarding the project and the Environmental Impact Statement can be found here.

News ARTICLES

JULY 2026:

Learning Beyond the Build: Seabee Engineer Technicians Take on a Once-in-a-Generation Assignment

JUNE 2026:

Working Where Others Cannot: Underwater Construction Team Brings Poseidon’s Corollary to Life at Future Dry Dock 5

FEBRUARY 2024:

SEPTEMBER 2023:

Navy, Hawaii honor dry dock construction start with traditional blessing

MARCH 2023:

NAVFAC Pacific awards $2.8-billion contract task order for Pearl Harbor dry dock replacement

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