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SurgeMain Sailors Cover COVID Gap, Demobilization Starts Apr. 1
March 24, 2021 — WASHINGTON -- Beginning on April 1, 850 Navy Reserve Sailors mobilized by the Surge Maintenance (SurgeMain) program and deployed to the four naval shipyards will begin demobilization. The SurgeMain Sailors provide the shipyards with additional capacity to conduct ship maintenance and modernization during the COVID-19 pandemic.Over the course of the... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division White Sands Detachment Team Receives PEO IWS Excellence Award for Rolling Airframe Missile Project
March 23, 2021 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) White Sands Detachment Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B team received the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Excellence Award for meeting project deadlines and goals related to the RAM Block 2B Project on Aug. 22, 2020.The team worked alongside the U.S... MORE

Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B team from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division White Sands Detachment and Army Test and Evaluation Command involved with RAM Block testing project at White Sands Missile Range with RAM Launcher. Select individuals from the team pictured above received the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems Excellence Award for meeting project deadlines and goals related to the RAM Block 2B Project on Aug. 22, 2020.

NSWCPD Renews STEM Charter, Continues Focus on Future Workforce
March 23, 2021 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) recently released the Command’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) outreach charter and strategic plan, which share an increased focus on the future workforce, for 2021-2025.The new STEM Outreach Charter lays out six goals to strengthen the STEM education in the... MORE

Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) Fall Engagement students observe as their colleagues make their presentations during a Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD)-led virtual event. The NREIP is a college internship program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that places students in Department of Navy (DoN) laboratories during the summer to conduct research (U.S. Navy photo by Brentan Debysingh/released).

NAVSEA’s HACKtheMACHINE Prize Challenge seeks cyber innovation, partners
March 23, 2021 — WASHINGTON -- Teams from across the country gathered virtually today to solve high-tech Navy challenges in a Prize Challenge hosted by Naval Sea Systems Command.The competition offers three separate challenges in Maritime Cyber, Data Science, and 3D printing over the next four days with teams competing for $95,000 in prize money.“HACKtheMACHINE is... MORE

U.S. Navy Recovers MH-60S Helicopter from Record Depth
March 22, 2021 — NORTH PACIFIC - NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) recovered a downed Navy MH-60S helicopter from a depth of 19,075 feet off the coast of Okinawa, Japan Thursday.The helicopter, a twin engine Sikorsky Seahawk, crashed into the Pacific Ocean last year while operating from the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19). The air... MORE

An MH-60S on deck of contracted salvage vessel off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan on March 18, 2021, having just been pulled from the depth of 19,075 ft by NAVSEA Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, (SUPSALV) at the request of the Navy Safety Center to facilitate accident investigation.

NSWCPD Commences National Engineers Week with Virtual Kickoff Event
March 22, 2021 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) celebrated National Engineers Week (NEW) (February 21-27) starting with a Virtual Kick-Off Event featuring Dr. Tom Drake, head of Ocean Battlespace and Expeditionary Access Department at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) on Feb. 23, 2021.Drake leads the department responsible for Navy... MORE

Dr. Tom Drake gives a presentation during NSWCPD’s National Engineers Week celebration. Drake, head of the Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department at Office of Naval Research (ONR), spoke about his background, inspiration, and current work focus during the hour-long virtual event.

NSWC Corona Scientists, Engineers Snag ‘Hack the Machine’ Win
March 22, 2021 — Eleven Navy scientists and engineers from Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Corona Division spent a week hacking government cybersecurity systems and planning future crisis response.If you think you read that incorrectly, you didn’t. The scientists and engineers were participants in the Hack the Machine prize challenge, which kicked off March 23... MORE

Annie Voigt of Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Corona Division’s Acquisition and Readiness Department discusses potential solutions with her data science teammates during the Navy’s Hack the Machine prize challenge March 22 in Norco, California.

Ronald Reagan project team celebrates 50 percent complete milestone
March 18, 2021 — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center team working on the selected restricted availability for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) marked the 50 percent complete milestone in Yokosuka, Japan, March 10.Ronald Reagan arrived back in Japan Nov. 14, 2020, following a six-month... MORE

The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center team working on the selected restricted availability for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) marked the 50 percent complete milestone in Yokosuka, Japan, March 10, 2010.Pictured here, Regan returns to Yokosuka, Japan, Nov. 14, 2020, following a six-month deployment.

Innovation aids carrier maintenance efforts: Automating heat exchanger cleaning process improves critical path work
March 18, 2021 — A team of innovators at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility spearheaded an effort to automate the process of cleaning heat exchanger tubes during aircraft carrier availabilities that proved so successful, the process is being exported to other carrier maintenance locations.Prior to the process change, mechanics would... MORE

A remote-operated, three-axis hydro-lance indexer is mounted in the tubes of a mock heat exchanger during recent vendor provided training inside Building 107 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (PSNS & IMF photo)

NSWC Crane Scientists Teach STEM Students about Infrared Light
March 18, 2021 — CRANE, Ind. – Scientists from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) worked with the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Program to develop a video teaching K-12 students about infrared lights, its uses in daily life, and how it applies to NSWC Crane.In early 2020, the STEM program pivoted and worked with... MORE

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