Provides full spectrum life cycle scientific, engineering and management functions to design, develop, test, evaluate, and acquire safe, reliable, secure and effective hardware for Strategic Systems.  Ensures the required Navy expertise is available to develop, acquire, field, and maintain a credible and reliable strategic deterrent in the areas of high reliability hardware (including radiation hardened electronics and small ordnance), security solutions for safeguarding personnel, property and material aboard ships and at shore installations (excluding expeditionary coastal and riverine facilities), and acoustic sensors and underwater cables (for assigned systems).  Includes hardware for the Navy’s Strategic Weapon System (e.g. flight, launch, guidance, fire control, and navigation systems).  Also includes security systems, sensor systems, and the logistics associated with operation of shipboard and ground-based strategic and deterrent facilities and systems.   

Key Areas:

  • Guidance Systems
  • Flight Systems
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Radar Apertures
  • Navigation Systems
  • GPS Systems
  • Radiation Tolerant Electronics
  • Power Systems
  • Satellite Ground Systems
  • Facility & Personnel Security
  • High Reliability Hardware
  • System Integration
  • Handling Systems
  • Mission Assurance Systems
  • Small Ordnance
  • Acoustic Sensors & Cables
  • Portable Armories/Magazines
  • Shipboard Security Systems
  • Design Modeling & Simulation
  • Design of Radiation Tolerant Microelectronics
  • Design of High-Reliability Microelectronics
  • Application & Integration of Commercial Off-the-Shelf Technology
  • Systems Engineering & Integration
  • Inertial Sensor Expertise
  • Electronics Radiation Testing
  • Failure & Material Analysis 
  • High-Security Locking Devices
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Electronic Bollards/Barriers/Gates
  • Access Control Systems
  • Component Reliability & Quality Analysis
  • Component Destructive Physical Analysis
  • Active and Passive Surveillance and Defensive Systems
  • Acoustic Countermeasures & Countermeasure Launchers
  • Force Protection Solution Engineering
  • Repair & Maintenance of AA&E High-Security Locking Devices

Designations:

  • Leader in Radiation Tolerant Electronics
  • Leader in Commercial Off-the-Shelf Technologies
  • Leader in Stockpile Reliability Strategic Systems
  • Leader in Weapon System Handling, Security, Verification & Validation
  • "911" Engineering Activity for Strategic Systems Program Office
  • Acquisition & In-Service Engineering Agent for Shipboard Wireless Communications