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Sew Service-Minded: NSWCDD Systems Engineer Recognized for Community Service Contributions
May 24, 2021 — Bailey Heyman is the type of person to take action when she sees something is not as it should be. Where others may talk the talk, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) systems engineer is already walking the walk and making changes for the better.Equipped with a sense of obligation to use her skills to help others, Heyman... MORE

IMAGE: Bailey Heyman, systems engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division , attends the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers SoutheastCon 2019 in Huntsville. As a member of the student activities committee, Heyman created ethics and professional development competitions for college-age students.

Out of the Limelight: Office of Counsel Serves NSWC Dahlgren Division behind the Scenes
May 21, 2021 — With the start of summer just around the corner, fruits and vegetables are appearing en masse – at the farmer’s market, in your garden, at the grocery store. It may not be your first thought, but the way Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) operates can look just like a piece of fruit.Think of an orange: take off the peel and you... MORE

IMAGE: Jamie Hanson, a paralegal in Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Office of Counsel, answers questions for a government civilian employee over the phone. The Office is small but mighty, with ten attorneys and support staff serving the Command, technical departments and civilian employees.

Hooked on Fly-Fishing, Healing and Helping Others
May 21, 2021 — A tranquil landscape only found in nature. A peaceful mountain river rich with bass and trout. And the easy rhythm of a fly-fishing rod. The cadence - ten o’clock, two o’clock, ten o’clock - running through the heads of new fly-fishermen as they try to achieve the perfect cast. “It takes a lot of concentration, and clears your mind of everything... MORE

IMAGE: Steve Tegtmeyer shows off a fish caught while fly-fishing with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing (PHWFF). Tegtmeyer, a Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity employee, is a recipient of the NSWCDD Distinguished Community Service Award and volunteer with PHWFF.

Backpack Meals, a Food Truck and Life Skill Classes – How One NSWCDD Employee is Taking on Childhood Hunger
May 20, 2021 — On a warm evening in April in a small neighborhood park, a young boy and his family thanked Mr. Tim – the man behind the counter in the big red food truck – for dinner. Over the course of the evening, approximately 200 neighbors, wearing masks and practicing social distancing, enjoyed a delicious, well-balanced hot meal grilled up and served by Mr... MORE

IMAGE: Tim White, executive director of Stafford Food Security, shows off a grill used to feed hundreds of people at community barbeques.

From Start to Finish: Maritime Warfare Control Systems Division Handles Undersea Warfare Lifecycle Capabilities
May 18, 2021 — At Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), it’s common for employees to work on projects destined for the fleet – from fire control systems to lasers and individual technologies – the goal is simple: protect the warfighter and set each warfighter up for success. In the Maritime Warfare Control Systems Division, the goal is the... MORE

NSWC Dahlgren Division Scientists Rapidly Deliver High-Energy Laser to the Fleet Despite Pandemic
May 17, 2021 — As COVID-19 spread across the nation and world in March 2020, an elite group of federal employees developed and executed a strategy to continue development, integration, testing and installation of a laser weapon aboard Navy warships.Their plan guaranteed that progress on high-energy programs would not be impacted as they pressed forward to... MORE

IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (July 17, 2019) – U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Max Shuman mounts a thermocouple assembly that houses spring fit thermocouples to a target plate during his internship at the Navy’s Laser Lethality and Development Facility which features an above-ground tunnel used for evaluating high energy laser weapon systems. Shuman’s mentor, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division scientist Chris Heflin, observes as the Midshipman prepares for a test shot accomplished with a flat top beam to ensure uniform heating across the sample.

NSWCDD Engineers Lead Tri-Service Testing Program Aimed at Improving Munitions Strike Methodologies
May 14, 2021 — More than a year of meticulous planning and world-class test design led to the brief moment that a 500-pound bomb blew through the soil beneath a 2,500-square-foot concrete masonry unit (CMU) structure. A cloud of dust trailed fragments of airborne building materials as engineers looked on and gathered data that will ultimately inform strike... MORE

IMAGE: Enhanced Weaponeering and Collateral Damage Estimation engineers detonate a 500-pound bomb buried beneath a cement structure at a test facility in Aberdeen, Maryland. Test engineers successfully collected data that will ultimately be used to create or revise munitions strike methodologies.

NSWC Dahlgren Division Engineer Brings New Capabilities to High Power Microwave Technology through DoD Scholarship Program
May 13, 2021 — While Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) is well-known for its work in both lasers and pulsed power systems, incorporating lasers into pulsed power is a new area of research. As such, the basic requirements of the research effort must be built from scratch.Dr. Jon ‘Cameron’ Pouncey of the High Power Microwave (HPM) Technology... MORE

IMAGE: Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineer Dr. Jon ‘Cameron’ Pouncey stands next to a pulsed power system used for the development and testing of novel high power microwave devices. Pouncey – principal investigator of a new project called the Micro-Laser Triggered Switches for Deployable Pulsed Power – is also the NSWCDD technical lead on three other high power microwave projects.

NSWC Dahlgren Division Builds One Combat Simulator to Rule Them All
May 12, 2021 — This part is routine: a Navy radar operator watches as the movement of a small blip on his display indicates that a fishing vessel is sailing toward the open ocean.This part is not: a mass of blips appear on the scope as fast attack boats zip past the fisherman. Moments later, the blue sky gives way to a freak thunderstorm. This improbable change... MORE

IMAGE: From left to right, Lieutenant Alexander Snazin and Ensign Marcus Banez attend the Combat Systems Officer Baseline 9 course at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center (ATRC) in Dahlgren. The ATRC provides Sailors the tactical and technical skills required to operate, employ, and assess the readiness of the AEGIS combat systems at sea.

NSWC Dahlgren Division Principal Scientist Recognized for Role in Employee Development
May 11, 2021 — One of the scariest aspects of starting a new job is learning the ropes of how things work – whether on a technical level or how to log your hours. But for employees in the High Powered Microwave (HPM) Technology Development Branch, all they had to do was look into Victor ‘Vic’ Gehman Jr.’s office.“Back before the pandemic started and I had an... MORE

IMAGE: More than four decades after first taking a job at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), Victor ‘Vic’ Gehman, Jr. has been recognized for his role mentoring other employees. “I try to keep a welcoming atmosphere in my office because I was once new,” he said. Gehman, the principal scientist for the High Powered Microwave Technology Development Branch, was one of 90 individuals and 39 teams recognized in the 2019 NSWCDD Honorary Awards video program.

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