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U.S. Navy Partners with U.S. Coast Guard for Service Life Extension Work
April 12, 2017
The Navy is partnering with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to execute a Service Life Extension Plan on up to five of the Yard Patrol (YP) 676 Class Training Craft.   The maintenance and modernization work will be performed at the USCG Yard in Baltimore, Maryland and will allow the midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) to continue training onboard these craft. YP 688 is the first craft to arrive for modernization.

Eight NSWC Crane Employees Receive Award for $1.2 Million in Cost Savings
April 12, 2017
Front Row (L-R): Barry Welch (GOV), Danny Jones (GOV), Joe Burkhart (GOV), Travis Sipes (GOV), Andrea Woodruff (GOV), Chris Goddard (GOV), Tricia Herndon (GOV), Penny Smiddie (CTR – SAIC)

Back Row (L-R): Mark Godfrey (Combat Development & integration), Andy Rodgers (MARCORSYSCOM Program Manager Light Tactical Vehicles), Levi Shields (GOV), Jessica Turner (MARCORSYSCOM ITV/UTV Team Lead), SSgt Bigelow (MARCORSYSCOM), Gene Morin (MARCORSYSCOM Product Manager Light Tactical Vehicles), Jared Evans (GOV - Division Manager C5ISR Integration Division), Jim Allen (CTR – SAIC), Tim Hendrix (CTR – SAIC)

NSWCDD Engineer Wins NAVSEA Women Moving Forward Award
April 10, 2017
DAHLGREN, Va. – Navy engineer Karen Wingeart is the 2016 Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Women Moving Forward Award winner. NAVSEA Commander Vice Adm. Thomas Moore announced Wingeart as the award winner in an April 2, 2017 communiqué to NAVSEA employees based at Navy warfare centers and shipyards across the country. The Women Moving Forward award recognizes the contributions of individuals who promote equal opportunity in the workforce and continually make significant positive impacts to the command's mission and readiness. As a government civilian, Wingeart serves as a systems engineer and technical program lead for Cooperative Engagement Capability integration on Ship Self Defense System platforms and DDG-1000. She recently retired after a 20-year career on the Navy’s military side – 11 years on active duty and nine years in the reserves – as a surface warfare officer and a meteorology and oceanography officer.

PSNS & IMF honors 34 employees, Sailors at ceremony
April 10, 2017
More than 200 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility nominees for Employee of the Year honors pose for a photo before the March 30 PSNS & IMF Employee of thpsnse Year ceremony at the Admiral Theater in Bremerton, Washington. PSNS & IMF on the Waterfront selected 34 of the nominees as winners in 28 categories. (PSNS & IMF photo by Thiep Van Nguyen II)

PSNS & IMF STEM outreach program wins Navy-wide award
April 10, 2017
PSNS & IMF Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Outreach Coordinator Corinne Beach shows students from Pinecrest Elementary School how to use a battery to demonstrate electrical circuitry during a Navy STEM event at the Puget Sound Navy Museum, March 17, 2017, in Bremerton, Washington. Volunteers from PSNS & IMF teamed up with Puget Sound Navy Museum staff to hold a two-day STEM outreach event for local students at the museum March 16-17. (U.S. Navy photo by Zachary Frank, PSNS & IMF photographer)

Future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) underway for builder's sea trials
April 8, 2017
Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) man the rails as the ship departs Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding for builder's sea trials off the U.S. East Coast. The first-of-class ship-the first new U.S. aircraft carrier design in 40 years-will spend several days conducting builder's sea trials, a comprehensive test of many of the ship's key systems and technologies.

NAVSEA Executive Director Champions the Importance of Small Business
April 7, 2017

Girls in Technology Learn About STEM Opportunities at Carderock
April 7, 2017
Caroline Scheck, a mechanical engineer with the Additive Manufacturing Project Office (Code 6103), tells middle- and high-school students with the Washington, D.C., Girls in Technology (GIT) program about the Manufacturing, Knowledge and Education (MAKE) Lab, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division™s 3-D printing space for workforce development and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) outreach in West Bethesda, Md., March 29. Carderock™s women engineers and other employees hosted the local GIT chapter to tell and show them about career opportunities in STEM with Carderock and the Department of the Navy. (U.S. Navy photo by Dustin Q. Diaz/Released)

NSWC Crane Builds Business Relationships at 2017 Buy Indiana Expo
April 6, 2017
170404-N-EJ140-003 - NSWC Crane Deputy For Small Business Matt Burkett kicks off his first #BuyIndiana in his new role.

SERMC celebrates the birthday of the Chief Petty Officer
April 4, 2017
Active and retired Chief Petty Officers (CPO) render morning colors at Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) March 31. Raising the colors is part of celebrating the birthday of the Chief, April 1st. The rank of CPO was established by President Benjamin Harrison when he signed General Order 409.