Departments At-A-Glance
Readiness Assessment Department
The Readiness Assessment Department serves as the Navy’s combat, weapons, and warfare system’s performance and material readiness independent assessment agent. Combat Assessment designs, develops and implements the criteria, procedures, techniques, and analysis methodology for assessing, monitoring, and reporting the performance and readiness of combat systems. Additional responsibilities include analysis of comprehensive test and material maintenance data to provide leadership with indices of combat system readiness and identification of performance limiters and drivers.
Force Training Department
Force Training department analyzes Force-level training, providing information to Fleet decision makers. Functions include analyzing Fleet exercise performance, enabling training by providing range systems engineering and management to meet Fleet Readiness Training Program requirements, conducting range system operational assessments, and providing engineering solutions for military test and training range communication, data distribution, and weapon scoring instrumentation.
Performance Assessment Department
The Performance Assessment Department serves as the independent performance assessment agent for warfare and combat systems, Battle Force programs, Joint Warfare programs, and related Battle Force interoperability. Joint Forces designs, develops and implements the criteria, procedures, techniques, and analysis methodology for assessing and monitoring joint systems performance and interoperability.
Measurement Science Department
The Measurement Science Department at NSWC Corona serves as the United States Navy’s Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) Program’s primary technical authority. The engineers and technicians, working in metrology engineering, ensure that weapons systems and support equipment measurement accuracies are valid, uniform, and traceable to national measurement standards or natural physical constants.
Product Engineering Assessment Department
The Product Engineering Assessment Department assesses weapons and combat system test, functional interoperability, and reliability. Test Systems Assessment analyzes Test systems, either off-line or embedded, for effectiveness and suitability. Any test is only as valuable as the information it provides; test systems assessments maximizes this value. Interface assessment determines the functional interoperability (form, fit, function, safety, and interchangeability) between systems, systems and subsystems, and subsystems and components, throughout the life cycle. In addition, Interface Assessment provides calibration support for unique physical requirements. Weapons Assessment provides a total life-cycle view for surface missile hardware by integrating missile maintenance and management information into single coherent picture. This single coherent picture supports numerous engineering analyses, including Safety, Reliability, Warranty, Location, Contract, Test and condition code information; Weapon and Stockpile reliability prediction; and maintenance and retrofit decisions.
Quality Assessment Department
The Quality Assessment Department serves as the independent assessment agent to assure the quality of weapons, combat systems, and equipments. The department provides life-cycle quality and mission assurance support to Department of Defense (DoD) Agencies, Systems Commands, Program Executive Offices, and Program Managers. Quality and technical requirements and guidance for application to development, production, and maintenance of Defense systems are developed by the department. Once requirements are established the department conducts assessments of and reports on the performance of Defense contractors and field/Fleet activities quality and technical systems. Also, the department provides technical assistance to DoD offices, contractors, and field/Fleet activities in the interpretation and implementation of quality requirements and the resolution of quality issues. The department also manages and operates centralized systems for Fleet failures, defective products, and parts obsolescence programs.