[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 7475-7476]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TRIBUTE TO MR. ALAN S. WEYMAN

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                         HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 30, 2008

  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize an 
outstanding public servant, Alan S. Weyman, as he completes more than 
39 years of continuous service within the civilian leadership of the 
Department of Defense. He began his public service life in naval 
shipbuilding in 1969 as an engineer in training in the New Construction 
Program Office for the USS Virginia Class Cruiser and is ending it as 
NAVSEA's Executive Director for Surface Warfare. Throughout his career, 
he worked tirelessly to serve America and our Navy.
  Mr. Weyman joined NAVSEA in 1979 as Assistant Program Manager for New 
Construction. In 1987 he was appointed to the Senior Executive Service 
and assigned as the Deputy in the Gas Turbine Combatant Ship Program 
Office where he shared responsibility for fleet support and 
modernization of all non-Aegis gas turbine ships, acquisition of FFG 7 
Class ships, and execution of the Australian and Taiwanese foreign 
military sales programs.
  He was designated as Director of Corporate Operations at NAVSEA in 
June 1995. While in this position, Mr. Weyman successfully led the 
organization through a continuing downsizing and restructuring of 
monumental proportions. Under his leadership, the organization reduced 
by 45 percent to meet downsizing workforce goals, with minimal mission 
impact and involuntary separations. Mr. Weyman was a natural leader in 
this Navy initiative, educating the organization and developing actions 
to meet a

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major budget reduction of $1 billion over 5 years. Through his 
determination, Mr. Weyman developed a plan to eliminate any negative 
impact on the fleet, core equities, or mission organizational 
objectives. The process he developed has been adopted as the standard 
for the Navy.
  In 1999, Mr. Weyman was assigned to the Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy (R,D&A) as the Executive Director for the Program Executive 
Officer for Theater Surface Combatants which consisted of nearly 400 
managers, engineers, logisticians, and financial managers. He was 
directly responsible to the PEO for the development and execution of a 
wide variety of Navy programs, including Arleigh Burke Destroyer Class 
shipbuilding, Navy Area and Theater Wide Ballistic Missile Defense, the 
AEGIS program, and life cycle fleet support of the 115 surface ship 
combatant fleet.
  As Executive Director, New Construction-Current Ship Fleet Support 
and Inactive Ships, he was instrumental in the successful restructuring 
of the PEO organization, phasing out PEO Theater Surface Combatants, 
primarily responsible for the Aegis Shipbuilding Program, and standing 
up a new organization, PEO Ships, that is responsible for all surface 
ship shipbuilding and modernization. He initiated an integrated Fleet 
Support Group for all surface ships and executed that structure within 
the Commander Fleet Forces Command SHIPMAIN initiative.
  Mr. Weyman has far exceeded expected results of his duties as 
Executive Director for In- Service Ships. He was instrumental in the 
successful operations of the PEO, primarily responsible for the in-
service support for all surface ships, including destroyer and cruiser 
modernization programs, the ships inactivation program and the FMS Ship 
Transfer Program. Under his leadership, the In-Service Ship Team was 
the horsepower behind the SHIPMAIN Modernization Initiative, CFT 4 
which prioritized alterations across classes of ships, removed non-
valve alterations with a savings to the navy of over $500M, and 
instituted a drum beat for alteration accomplishment. He supported 
SHIPMAIN CFT's 1, 2 and 3, and the development of the Surface Warfare 
Enterprise. He achieved success in the implementation of a Multi-Ship 
Multi-Option contract approach for all surface ships maintenance and 
modernization. MSMO contracts have stabilized the repair industrial 
base and reduced costs to the fleet OM&N accounts. The achieved 
successes in the re-activation of the ex-Kidd Class destroyers for the 
Taiwanese Ship Transfer program were extremely impressive; four ships 
were re-activated for the Taiwanese Navy several months early and tens 
of millions under budget. Planning for follow-on ship transfer work for 
the MHC's, ex-Trenton, and ex-Coronado are already in place. The ship 
Inactivation Programs still continues to make great strides in reducing 
the size of the inactive fleet through the development of innovative 
processes and continuous improvements of existing methods.
  Mr. Weyman's visionary approach to challenges allows for the 
transformation from a ``business as usual'' mentality into actions that 
permit innovative improvements in the way the Government and its 
private industry partners achieve best value products and services. It 
is, therefore, a pleasure to recognize Mr. Alan S. Weyman for his many 
contributions in a life devoted to our Nation's security as he leaves 
the Department of the Navy. I know my colleagues join me in wishing him 
and his wife Barbara much happiness and fair winds and following seas 
as they begin a new chapter in their lives.

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