Alaska Ship & Drydock Inc. (ASD )

Was formed in 1994 as a private cooperation whose mission was to perform Shipbuilding & Repair in support of fleets operating in the southeast Alaska Inside Passage, North Pacific and Bering Sea. (ASD ) operates the Ketchikan Shipyard through a 30 year agreement with the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), a State of Alaska Public Corporation, which owns the Ketchikan Shipyard. AIDEA is expanding and improving the facility in accordance with competitive best practices identified in he First Marine International Findings for the Global Shipbuilding Industrial Base Benchmarking Study . AIDEA will publish the 2009 Ketchikan Shipyard Concept and Preliminary Design guidance document describing the infrastructure, business processes, tooling & workforce Improvement methodology that will establish a sustainable, advanced manufacturing industrial base at the Ketchikan Shipyard.