What We Do Maintaining the vital link between the Navy’s shore infrastructure and the operating fleet.
How We Do It Our commitment to safe and effective warfare systems.
Who We Are Civilians and active military working together in support of the fleet.
Where We Are Our home on the Southern California coast, with detachments across the country and personnel working around the world.
How We Began A proud history, a mission for the future.
USS Stethem (DDG 63) passes the Surface Warfare Engineering Facility, a unique asset at NSWC PHD, as she enters the Port of Hueneme
What We Do
We provide fleet support in the form of systems engineering, logistics, test and evaluation, software engineering, and acquisition.
Our job is to effectively design, develop, test, and certify the performance and safety of combat and weapon systems installed on Navy ships. Whether a system is involved in anti-air warfare, land attack/strike warfare, anti-surface warfare, littoral warfare, or theater ballistic missile defense warfare, it must provide the Sailor with key elements: the ability to work, and the ability to work safely.
We also have the responsibility to effectively train Sailors and support warfare systems with adequate spares and accurate technical documentation. The Sailor’s ability to effectively operate and maintain equipment and systems in an optimum state of readiness is a direct result of engineered reliability, training and support.
How We Do It
The command’s vision – to be the first choice for innovative engineering and logistics solutions – means a dedication to deliver to the fleet a product that works 24/7 and is backed by support when needed. A system is effective if it:
- is reliable
- works when it needs to work
- has been fully tested at sea under threat-like conditions
- and Sailors have been trained to employ and maintain the system.
The events of September 11, 2001, and our call into the War on Terrorism reaffirmed our commitment to the men and women of the U.S. Navy who prepare to sail in harm’s way. We are there- be it in the form of testing a missile, troubleshooting a shipboard problem via a video tele-maintenance, or providing distance support through the Sailor to Engineer web site- we are dedicated to making our Sailors battle-ready.
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Who We Are
With a business base in excess of $600 million per year, our 2,000 civilians and 100 military personnel dedicate themselves to the command’s mission to Integrate, Test, Evaluate and Provide Life Cycle Engineering and Logistics for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Surface Warfare Systems, Enabling the Warfighter to Defend Our Homeland, Fight Major Combat Operations and Win the Global War on Terror. The majority of the workforce is comprised of scientists and engineers. The command also employs logisticians, analysts, computer specialists, technicians and administrative personnel.
Where We Are
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division is located at Naval Base Ventura County in the city of Port Hueneme, California. Port Hueneme is on the Southern California coastline midway between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. The Division is a tenant organization at the naval base, with highly technical activities and distinctly different objectives than those of other tenant commands. The Division also has detachments located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and White Sands, New Mexico.
How We Began
The Navy established NSWC PHD in 1963 as the Naval Ship Missile Systems Engineering Station to provide overall technical support for the new guided missiles that were being introduced into the fleet. The command started with six military, 38 civilians, and 14 contractor personnel. Since then the command’s role has expanded dramatically. Today we provide in-service engineering, test and evaluation, and integrated logistics support for all combat and weapon systems of the U.S. Navy’s surface fleet.
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