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Putting finishing touches on new software updates

The Littoral Combat Systems (LCS) engineering team puts finishing touches on new software updates for a test and training system at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD). The team ensures deckplate sailors aboard LCS ships are trained and ready with the latest modernizations of the weapons systems.

MK 160 Gun Control Laboratory performs a control inspection

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD), electronics engineer in the MK 160 Gun Control Laboratory, performs a control inspection on a training system before a course starts. NSWC PHD is a center of excellence for engineering, testing, training and evaluation for new US Navy capabilities.

USS Dewey (DDG 105)

USS Dewey (DDG 105) arrives at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division for ship assessments, additional maintenance, and underway replenishment training, Feb. 27. (U.S. Navy photo by Brittany Arias/Released)

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Capt. David Back, Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division commanding officer, and members of his leadership team welcome Mr. Jeffrey Koe, Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division technical director, for his technical director swap, April 29. This one-week rotation helped Koe better understand how NSWC PCD supports the warfighter. (U.S. Navy photo by Eddie Green)

NSWCs PCD and PHD use technical director rotation to build a learning organization

By Jeremy Roman, NSWC PCD Public Affairs | July 5, 2024

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) continued its pursuit to construct a world class team built on exceptional technical proficiency and leadership competence during a recent NAVSEA Warfare Centers’ Technical Director (TD)...

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s Steven Cosgrove (left), workforce development training specialist, and Wendy Dasgupta (right), branch manager for metrics and analytics, display the 2024 Disability Matters Champion Awards they won at the Disability Matters North America Conference, which took place April 4-5 in Milwaukee. They are pictured with Dasgupta’s supervisor, Corporate Business Office Division Manager Janie Kumar. (Courtesy photo)

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division Personnel Win Awards for Disability Awareness, Inclusion Efforts

By Thomas McMahon | April 16, 2024

Two employees who advocate for those with disabilities at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) in California have earned national honors for promoting disability awareness and inclusion.Steven...

Brian Langley (left), baseline manager with Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) 80, speaks to attendees at the Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) Waterfront Symposium at Naval Base San Diego on Nov. 8. PEO IWS 80 funded Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division to plan the event, which trained sailors on keeping their ships’ SSDS ready for combat. (U.S. Navy photo by Vincent Catarroja/Released)

Ship Self-Defense System Symposium Boosts Sailor Engagement, Ownership

By Thomas McMahon | Jan. 15, 2024

Keeping the Navy’s Ship Self-Defense Systems (SSDS) combat ready and effective was the focus of a recent fleet engagement event that Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) spearheaded in San...

A sounding rocket soars skyward at Launch Complex 36 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Oct. 14 to capture data on the annular solar eclipse. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment launched three rockets in short succession — one 35 minutes before the peak of the eclipse, one during the peak and another 35 minutes later. (U.S. Army photo by Judy Hawkins/Released)

After Boosting Launch Capacity, White Sands Naval Detachment Blasts Off 3 Rockets to Study Solar Eclipse

By Tom McMahon | Dec. 13, 2023

As the widely watched annular solar eclipse passed over New Mexico on Oct. 14, the naval detachment at White Sands Missile Range pulled off its own spectacle — launching three rockets into space in just over an hour to...

A Terrier-Oriole-Oriole sounding rocket points skyward on a launch rail in Biscarrosse, France, in June. The three-stage rocket was the third launch vehicle that Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment provided for the French military in a project that began in 2020. (Photo courtesy of the France General Directorate of Armaments/Released)

Naval Warfare Center Detachment’s Rocket Launch Propels First Flight of French Hypersonic Glider

By Thomas McMahon | Dec. 12, 2023

Boosting hypersonic research capabilities was at the heart of a White Sands, New Mexico-based naval detachment’s latest sounding rocket launch with the French military.The high-profile June 26 mission in Biscarrosse, France,...

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment headquarters sits at the foot of the Organ Mountains at White Sand Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The roots of the “Desert Navy,” as the sign calls it, reach back to when the Navy stood up a presence at White Sands in 1946, shortly after the Army established the range. (U.S. Navy photo by Eric Parsons/Released)

Part 3 of 3: In Land of Enchantment, White Sands Team Boosts Local Ties to Keep Missiles, Rockets Flying

By Thomas McMahon | Sept. 26, 2023

Third in a three-part seriesWhite Sands Detachment’s roots run deep in southern New Mexico, but the detachment has begun planting seeds in the surrounding communities to keep its fleet support mission thriving in the high...

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