text: All references to "hawaii time" should not assume the issue is productivity of the workforce.  Productivity of the workforce and facility capability are management controllables and the senior managers are Naval officers for Pearl and the other Shipyards. The most similar size yard to Pearl is Portsmouth.  Portsmouth does not do IMF (short term emergent) or Surface ship work, and just one product line of long term overhauls.  So any measure of back logs with out some sort of weighted formula is not an apples to apples comparison.