Provides comprehensive scientific and engineering knowledge, skills and facilities for conducting programs in advanced electronics and energy systems.  Conducts full spectrum program of applied research, design, development, acquisition, test and evaluation, and life cycle management to provide safe, trusted, reliable and effective advanced electronic products.  Advanced electronics include active and passive electronic devices, circuit cards, interconnect technologies, electronic controls, solid state transmit/receive modules, microwave tubes and other radio frequency devices.  Maintains subject matter expertise in failure analysis, counterfeit technologies, radiation hardening, design, and test and evaluation of advanced electronics.  In addition, maintains Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA's) technical authority in anti-tamper technology to include vulnerability assessments, technology and program protection planning, and supply chain risk management, as well as subject matter expertise to maintain the Navy's DoD executive agent responsibilities in microwave tubes and printed circuit board technology.   For energy systems, provides comprehensive life cycle management for safe, reliable and effective devices. This includes requirements definition, design, development, prototyping & limited production, acquisition & acquisition engineering, product improvement, technology evaluation and insertion, standardization, test & evaluation, safety certification (including high energy battery systems technologies such as lithium), production engineering, in-service engineering, obsolescence management, maintenance, Fleet training, and system retirement. Energy systems includes batteries, advanced high energy density storage devices, energy transfer devices, and alternative and renewable energy devices.

Key Areas:

  • Anti-Tamper Technologies
  • Program Protection Planning
  • Counterfeit Parts Detection & Prevention
  • Solid-State Radio Frequency Devices
  • Microwave Tubes
  • Digital and Analog Circuit Cards
  • Power and RF Devices
  • Full Spectrum Power & Energy Solutions
  • Performance Test
  • Obsolescence Management
  • Acquisition & Source Selection
  • Submarines & Submersible Systems
  • Shipboard & Underwater Systems
  • Aircraft & Avionics Systems
  • Tactical & Strategic Missiles
  • Satellite & Space-based Systems
  • Special Warfare Equipment
  • Land & Sea Mines, Torpedoes
  • Electric/Hybrid Vehicles
  • Smart Munitions
  • Navigational Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • Life Support & Survival Systems
  • Surveillance & Intelligence Systems
  • Ground Support Equipment
  • Power Generation Systems
  • Printed Wiring Board Design and Manufacture
  • Automated Test & Fault Isolation
  • Micro-Miniature Repair (2M)
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Radiation Testing
  • Safety & Abuse Test
  • Radiation Hardened Designs
  • Failure Analysis
  • Reliability Analysis
  • Requirements Definition
  • Technology Transition
  • Applied Research
  • Defining Requirements
  • Standardization
  • Transitioning Designs into Production
  • Acquisition & Source Selection/Evaluation
  • Technology Evaluation & Insertion
  • Testing
    • Definition
    • Safety & Abuse
    • Evaluation
  • Safety Certification
  • Failure Analysis
  • Engineering
    • Production
    • In-Service
  • Integrated Logistics Support
  • Repair & Maintenance
  • Prototyping & Limited Production
  • Demilitarization
  • Shipboard Phased Array Radars
  • Shipboard Detection & Fire Control Radars
  • Shipboard Navigation Radars
  • Land Based Communication Radars
  • Marine Corps Detection Radar System
  • Airborne Fire Control Systems
  • Air Force Airborne Jammer Systems

Designations:

  • Naval Sea Systems Command Technical Authority in Anti-Tamper Technology
  • DoD Anti-Tamper Science & Technology Lead
  • Product Support Integrator for Solid-State Maritime RD Devices
  • DoD Executive Agent for Microwave Tubes
  • DoD Executive Agent for Interconnect Technologies
  • Missile Defense Agency Anti-Tamper Coordinator
  • In-Service Engineering, Acquisition, Technical Direction and Certification Agent for 2M Electronic Repair Program
  • Acquisition and In-Service Engineering Agent for Submarine and Submersible Main Storage Batteries
  • Technical Direction Agent for STANDARD Missile & Special Warfare Batteries
  • In-Service Engineering Agent for SEAL Submersible Vehicle Batteries
  • In-Service Engineering Agent for AEGIS & Naval Search Radar Microwave Tubes
  • Tri-Service Cathode Life Test Facility
  • In-Service Engineering Agent for Seal Delivery Vehicle, Swimmer Delivery Vehicle & Advanced Seal Delivery System Batteries 

  • Acquisition & In-Service Engineering Agent for submarine and submersible Main Storage Batteries
  • Technical Direction Agent for STANDARD Missile and Special Warfare Batteries
  • DoD Executive Agent for Microwave Tubes
  • Designated Overhaul Point by NAVICP
  • In-Service Engineering Activity for AEGIS Microwave Tubes