Workforce System Objective
TriSeadon is a workforce-first industrial model. It combines government yard workers, legacy contractor teams, and low-barrier new entrants into one national shipbuilding labor system under common standards.
- Three-yard workforce mix: government employees in GOGO, established legacy contractors, and new low-to-no-barrier contractors renting space in GOCO and state module campuses.
- 50-state workforce expansion: labor is recruited from states and regions that have not historically been tapped for USN shipbuilding.
- Deliberate labor-pool recovery: many new yards and training centers are intentionally placed in stagnant former industrial corridors, brownfield waterfronts, and closed or reduced military-support areas where skilled job pools have been underused for years.
- Training-center infrastructure: dozens of training centers, trade schools, and technical-school partners increase skill depth, onboarding speed, and practical experience.
Program flow link: this workforce baseline supports simultaneous four-yard-type ramp and fixed build assumptions (FFG 24m, DDG 48m, CAG 60m).
National Accreditation Framework
- Single national curriculum baseline with fleet-common technical standards and standardized build/repair methods.
- Credential tiers: Entry, Journeyman, Senior Maintainer, Yard Lead.
- Re-certification windows align to 5-year refit cadence and flight/block updates.
- Accreditation alignment: state-recognized technical institutions plus federal workforce standards.
- Credential portability required across all TriSeadon-participating states and yard ownership models.
- Portable credentials are the core rule: a welder, electrician, shipfitter, systems technician, planner, or yard lead qualified in one TriSeadon yard model must be recognizable across GOGO, GOCO, COCO, and 50-state module campuses.
- Any participating yard may partner with unions, community colleges, ROP programs, veterans groups, technical schools, and other approved organizations to fund and operate local training pipelines.
- The default two-yard module campus should share one training annex, safety classroom set, and emergency-response instruction space rather than duplicating those facilities yard by yard.
Workforce Deployment Rules
Yard-side workforce requirements (GOGO and GOCO)
- Permanent full-capability training centers are mandatory at every GOGO and GOCO yard.
- Temporary housing for students and instructors is required in each yard activation package.
- Centers must support build, refit, module integration, and quality assurance tracks.
- Cross-yard exchange billets are required to maintain workforce portability.
- Veterans, union apprenticeship pipelines, community colleges, ROP programs, and technical-credit programs are all intended to feed the same workforce base rather than run as isolated channels.
- Any yard may co-fund or host these programs with local partner organizations so training can be stood up where the labor pool already exists.
- Activation logic should prefer places where industrial capacity and military-support employment have decayed, so training dollars reactivate existing communities instead of only bidding against hot labor markets.
- Yards should actively pursue hazmat-worker grants, cleanup training funds, veteran-transition support, and union apprenticeship incentives as part of the activation package.
COCO participation rules linked to 3% federal loans
- Any COCO/private yard receiving TriSeadon 3% federal loan participation must stand up an approved training center.
- Loan terms include a Year-1 no-payment startup period so training and lane setup can complete before repayment starts.
- Loan compliance includes staffing minimums, simulator/lab availability, and credential throughput targets.
- Mandatory workforce allocation remains in force: training center and housing funding minimums are contract-enforced.
- Failure to maintain training performance can trigger workshare penalties and loan covenant enforcement.
Shared Knowledge and Build Standards
- Ships, systems, technical products, and build standards are U.S. government property under one controlled data-rights baseline.
- Work instructions and repair methods are shared across yards so improvements are reused nationally, not trapped in one contractor silo.
- Open-knowledge execution is enforced through audited standards and contractor scoring, not closed proprietary workflows.
- DLA, module campuses, and test yards use the same baseline language for inventory, certification, and interface controls.
- All centers maintain veteran-transition pipelines and trade-school, community-college, union, and ROP partnerships.
Contract Standards, Points, and Growth Path
- Contracts are held to measurable standards: schedule, budget, quality, and cross-training contribution.
- Trainer assignment: +3 points for sending a qualified trainer to another yard or contractor lane.
- Student completion: +2 points for accepting and graduating a cross-yard student.
- One-year retention: +1 point for each participating trainer or qualified student retained for 12 months.
- Annual inactivity: -3 if no trainer is sent and -2 if no cross-yard student is accepted or graduated during a rolling 12-month period.
- Non-retention: -1 for each program-trained employee not retained for 12 months, subject to documented exceptions outside the contractor's control.
- Growth and enforcement: +50 creates priority standing; -50 starts corrective action, -75 starts a Performance Improvement and Enforcement proceeding, -100 withdraws and reassigns work, and -125 removes and replaces a contractor operating in GOCO space.
- As TriSeadon reaches stable production, additional COCO lanes can open for allied export builds, increasing U.S. workforce scale and global shipbuilding competitiveness.
Open Contractor Points Matrix | Open Yard Expansion and Ramp