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NSWC Dahlgren Division Innovation Expands Wargaming and Simulation Horizons
April 30, 2021 — Pronounce it “awesome,” but spell it “OSM.”Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineers have designed and patented a new modeling and simulation tool – a new framework allowing scientists, warfighters and college students to model ideas and develop wargaming scenarios seamlessly.“OSM” stands for Orchestrated Simulation through... MORE

IMAGE: U.S. Navy warships steam in formation while E/A-18G Growlers, FA-18E Super Hornets and an E-2D Hawkeye from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 fly over in support of Valiant Shield 2020. Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineers designed and patented a new modeling and simulation tool known as “OSM” for Orchestrated Simulation through Modeling that is impacting technical programs, wargames and military exercises such as Valiant Shield. OSM is a new framework allowing scientists, warfighters, and college students to model ideas and develop wargaming scenarios seamlessly. The Modeling and Simulation Toolbox (MAST) architecture – built on the OSM framework – offers a human-in-the-loop wargaming capability that positively impacted and adjudicated live events and military exercises – including Valiant Shield and Northern Edge. “The opportunities and possibilities for analysis using OSM and MAST are unlimited,” said Mike Maldonado, NSWCDD Modeling and Simulation Branch deputy program manager. “The framework is built for speed and provides anyone with the capability to model and test an idea quickly – in minutes – to see if it’s going in the right direction.” Pictured from left: USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2), USS Germantown (LSD 42), USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194), USS Antietam (CG 54), USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS America (LHA 6), USS Shiloh (CG 67), USS New Orleans (LPD 18), and USS Comstock (LSD 45).

NSWC Crane Engineers Awarded Agency Wins in the 2021 NSPE Federal Engineer of the Year Awards
April 29, 2021 — Three Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) engineers, – Eugene Kremer, Edwin Rodriguez, and James Wolfley, were recently named 2021 National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Federal Engineer of the Year Agency Winners. The Federal Engineer of the Year Award, sponsored by the Professional Engineers in Government,... MORE

Experience paying off for Louisville-Olympia project team
April 29, 2021 — The efforts of the experienced project team managing the simultaneous inactivation of Los Angeles-class submarines Ex-USS Olympia (SSN 717) and Ex-USS Louisville (SSN 724) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility have resulted in both projects currently running about four months ahead of schedule.According to Cmdr. Jack... MORE

Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines USS Louisville (SSN-724), foreground, and USS Olympia (SSN-717) began the inactivation process in Dry Dock 5 July 9, 2020 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (PSNS & IMF photo by Scott Hansen)

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s Corrosion Testing Rust-A-Thon Will Go National in its Second Phase
April 28, 2021 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD)’s inaugural Rust-A-Thon competition to find coating solutions for the Navy’s combat system corrosion issue will attack the challenge in its second round with new partners, judges, testing methods and products—and will go national as well.NSWC PHD Lead Materials Engineer Armen Kvryan... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division Lead Materials Engineer Armen Kvryan indicates testing is in progress during a recent and first corrosion-focused competition called Rust-A-Thon that sought to find coating solutions to the Navy’s combat system corrosion issues among materials submitted by outside competitors. The next Rust-A-Thon competition will begin May 1.

Navy’s advanced technology exercise showcases NSWC Carderock capabilities
April 28, 2021 — The 2021 Naval Integration in Contested Environments (NICE) Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) took place from April 7-14 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina — the same location of ANTX East that took place in the summer of 2019.“ANTX is one of my favorite innovation events,” Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division’s Technical... MORE

Carderock’s Autonomous Lab and Integration Center team demonstrating their unmanned surface vessel, Hammerhead Hanna, along the Intracoastal Waterway near Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Vice Chief of Naval Operations visits PSNS & IMF to discuss future
April 28, 2021 — Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Lescher, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, April 27, 2021, to tour PSNS & IMF facilities and discuss how the Public Shipyard Improvement Plan and the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program will enable PSNS & IMF to fully support the Navy the nation needs.Lescher... MORE

BREMERTON, Wash. – Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Lescher, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, April 27, 2021, to tour PSNS & IMF facilities and discuss how the Public Shipyard Improvement Planand the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program will enable PSNS & IMF to fully support the Navy the nation needs.(U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

How to build, maintain more ready fleet
April 28, 2021 — The Chief of Naval Operations NAVPLAN released in January calls on the Navy to build and maintain a more ready fleet by focusing on four priorities: readiness, capabilities, capacity and Sailors.To this end, “we will accelerate our momentum in improving on-time delivery of ships, submarines, and aircraft out of maintenance availabilities,” the CNO... MORE

Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Lescher visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, in Bremerton, Washington, April 27, 2021, to tour PSNS & IMF facilities and to discuss how the Public Shipyard Improvement Plan and the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program will empower PSNS & IMF to fully support the Navy the nation needs. (PSNS & IMF photo by Scott Hansen)

Small Business provides Navy with innovative energy monitoring capability
April 28, 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project now provides Navy leadership with a dashboard system that captures and displays fleet energy and power data.Live and available to authorized users fleet-wide, the Fleet Energy Conservation Dashboard (FECD) is the cloud-based component of the Global Energy Information System... MORE

An Fleet Energy Conservation Dashboard user reviews a development page that displays the relationship between energy usage and shipboard events.

NSWCPD Engineers Receive Kudos from IWO JIMA CHENG
April 27, 2021 — In January 2021, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) engineers Bob Bent, Craig Smith, Steve Pack, and Shane Docks were dispatched to Mayport, Fla. on a mission to prepare USS IWO JIMA for her impending 2021 deployment. After multiple trips and countless hours spent on troubleshooting and repair, the NSWCPD team’s skills... MORE

NSWCPD Hosts Virtual Quarterly Awards Ceremony
April 27, 2021 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) hosted its Quarterly Awards Virtual Ceremony on April 6, 2021. Among the nearly 250 awards presented were length of service to colleagues in recognition of their years of service in the United States government, Science and Engineer Development Program (SEDP) Graduates, and Letters of... MORE

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