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The Integrated Warfare Capability Toolkit Team from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, receives Innovation Award

The Integrated Warfare Capability Toolkit Team from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, poses for a photo with the warfare center’s leadership in Norco, California, Sept. 28, 2022. The team was presented with a Warfare Centers Innovation Award for providing an interactive online tool that promotes transparency, standardization, and advanced analytic visualization of system metrics and mission areas in support of the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems Directorates. From left, Technical Director Dianne Costlow, Engineer Cody Wallace, Engineer Blake Bayardo, Engineer Tsering Norbu, Engineer Brenda Lieu, Engineer Nicholas Santamaria, and Commanding Officer U.S. Navy Capt. Mike Aiena. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

Manuel Vazquez, Force Lab lead technician, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, calibrates a 100,000 pounds-force proving ring.

Manuel Vazquez, Force Lab lead technician, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, calibrates a 100,000 pounds-force proving ring from the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest Navy Calibration Laboratory at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, using a 102k Dead Weight Force Machine in the Measurement Science & Technology Laboratory at Norco, California, Aug. 2, 2022. The ring is a lab standard that can be used by the air station to test and calibrate equipment such as dynamometers, load cells, and force gauges. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

Range Support Craft 1 lays inert training mine-shapes for an exercise

Spencer Sharpe, a deckhand assigned to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, prepares to release inert training mine-shapes from aboard the Range Support Craft 1 (RSC 1) in San Diego, California, July 21, 2022. The RSC 1 was set to lay inert training mine-shapes for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

Ku band antenna installation at PACDRAGON 2022

Corona engineers install a Ku Band satellite communications system antenna aboard USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 27, 2022.

Senior Telecommunications Engineer Chuong Cat, left, and Telecommunications Technician Christopher Villalba, both from the Performance Assessment Department of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, install an antenna of a Ku Band satellite communications system aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, June 27, 2022. The system was developed by the warfare center to allow for real-time streaming of missile telemetry data and was installed on the Fitzgerald in preparation for the Pacific Dragon exercise. Five nations are participating in PACDRAGON 2022 in and around the Hawaiian Islands in August. This international maritime exercise provides a unique training opportunity to detect, track, and defend against ballistic missiles while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring safety and security on the world’s oceans. PACDRAGON 2022 is the third exercise in the series that began in 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini) (This photo has been altered for security purposes by blurring out identification tags.)

A cohort of interns pose with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division staff, after an orientation meeting in Norco, California, June 13, 2022.

A cohort of interns pose with staff of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, after an orientation meeting in Norco, California, June 13, 2022. The warfare center’s summer internship program gives high school and college students in the local community opportunities to work in jobs across all STEM disciplines. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

WEST 2022 Conference in San Diego, Calif. 2/16/22

Capt. Mike Aiena and a guest at the WEST 2022 Conference in San Diego, Calif.

U.S. Navy Capt. Mike Aiena, right, commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, engages with an attendee at the 32nd annual WEST conference in San Diego, California, Feb. 16, 2022. Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval institute, WEST brings together makers of platforms and the designers of technologies in a networking event to discuss and demonstrate their solutions in a single locale. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

Sunrise over a building of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, at Norco, California

Sunrise over a building of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, at Norco, California, Nov. 1, 2021. The warfare center provides transparency to warfighting readiness through data analytics and assessment, engineering the Fleet’s Live-Virtual-Constructive training environment, and assuring the accuracy of measurements. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

A setup of interferometer components in the the Measurement Science & Technology Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division

A setup of interferometer components during a tour of the Measurement Science & Technology Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division (NSWC Corona), given by Richard Schumacher, left, department head of the Measurement Science and Engineering department, NSWC Corona, to Michael Haycock, center, deputy commander of Navy Regional Maintenance Center, and executive director for Surface Ship Maintenance and Modernization, at Norco, California, Oct. 21, 2021. Haycock visited the center to tour its operations and attend the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Summit on-site. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona, Expeditionary Systems Engineering Division, Fallbrook, Calif.

From left to right, Debbie Davis, a supervisory scientist, section head, Greg Anderson, an engineer; Ryan Olsen, a section head; Sanket Patel, chief engineer; Michael Stefani, division director; Stefan Englert, branch manager; Kevin O’Heran, branch manager; Roland Cleveland, branch manager; and Chau Dang, branch manager, all of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona, Expeditionary Systems Engineering Division, Fallbrook, pose for division leadership photo, Camp Pendleton, California, April 7, 2022.

NSWC Corona Division Chief Technology Officer Taylor Cole

NSWC Corona Division Chief Technology Officer Taylor Cole livestreams from the WEST 22 Conference in San Diego, Calif.

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NAVSEA Warfare Centers unite for today’s Navy, tomorrow’s Navy, and the Navy after next

(right) Rear Adm. Kevin P. Byrne, Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Center commander, stands with NAVSEA commanding officers, technical directors and warfare centers headquarters staff leadership from around the country during the NAVSEA Warfare Centers Leadership Team meeting in Panama City, Fla., Feb. 22 - 23. Front row (from left): Larry Tarasek, Jeff Koe, Capt. Mike Aiena, Michael Slater, Capt. Brandon Larson, Andrea Perles, Ana Gulian, Ron Vien, Dale Sisson, Brad Jordan, Dr. Peter Adair, Dr. Angie Lewis, Rear Adm. Byrne, Second row (from left): Nigel Thijs, Capt. Tony Holmes, Andy Buckon, Capt. A.P. Breksa, Gene Hackney, Dianne Costlow, Commander Christina Carino, Capt. Richard Ardolino, Capt. Duncan McKay, Dr. David Sanders, Capt. Dana Simon, Jon Legge, Beth Warner, Capt. Chad Hennings, Adam Nave, Capt. Sylvester Brown, Capt. Eric Correll, Third row (from left): Capt. David Back, Capt. Phillip Mlynarski, Capt. Todd Hutchison, Dr. Vic Ricci, Capt. Gordon Hunt, David Grande, Ken Dotson, Capt. Damian Clem, Ashley Johnson, and Mark Oesterreich.

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NSWC Corona Engineer Named NAVSEA Mentor of the Year

Michael Tesch, an electronics engineer in the Performance Assessment Department of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, engages in an interview in Norco, California, July 14, 2022. Tesch was recognized by Naval Sea Systems Command as the 2021 Mentor of the Year. (U.S. Navy photo by Neil Mabini)

Oct. 5, 2022 - Electronics Engineer Michael Tesch of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division was recently named a Naval Sea Systems Command excellence award winner for the 2021 Mentor of the Year category.Tesch, a 47-year Team Corona...

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