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NSWC PHD Employees Shift Face Covering Production Into High Gear for the Greater Community
May 22, 2020 — What began as a few face shields and masks made by Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) personnel for friends and family has ballooned into hundreds of protective coverings donated to keep the local community and beyond safe during the COVID-19 global pandemic.For local health care workers, at-risk individuals and others... MORE

Fathomwerx Lab Designated Ventura Tech Bridge for Navy's NavalX Network
May 14, 2020 — Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition James “Hondo” Guerts designated Fathomwerx, a local innovation lab created through a partnership between Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD), the Port of Hueneme and other industry partners, as the Ventura Tech Bridge to the U.S. Navy’s nationwide... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s Office of Research and Technology Applications Manager Alan Jaeger, center, leads a group that includes visitors from the Department of Navy’s NavalX program on a tour of the Fathomwerx innovation lab at the Port of Hueneme, Jan. 27. Fathomwerx was created in partnership with the port, the Ventura County Economic Development Collaborative and Camarillo, Calif.-based Matter Labs. Fathomwerx is now one of the Navy’s new NavalX Tech Bridges.

Navy’s Only Directed Energy Lab on a Sea Test Range Breaks Ground at NBVC Point Mugu
May 6, 2020 — Demonstrating that Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) remains open for business despite the global pandemic, Navy leaders and private contractors broke ground Tuesday, May 5 at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC)’s Point Mugu for what will become the fleet’s only dedicated facility to test, fire and evaluate complete laser weapon systems in a maritime... MORE

NSWC PHD Technical Director Paul Mann, (far left); Cmdr. Andrew Olsen (back left) with NAVFAC/NBVC; Thomas Dowd, director, range department, NAWCWD/NAVAIR (front left); Jeff Harper (front center) of Harper Construction Co. Inc.; Marcos Gonzales (right back), NSWC PHD project lead for the Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory (DESIL); and NSWC PHD Commanding Officer Capt. Ray Acevedo (far right) at the DESIL groundbreaking, May 5.

Tomahawk Hardware Team Lauded for Design-to-Deployment Innovations
May 4, 2020 — In 2004, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) engineers Thomas Emmerich and Mark Monaco designed a workstation color printer prototype for the Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System (TTWCS) after the program office requested a more affordable printer than the $20,000 one proposed by a contractor.The pair’s design would... MORE

Members of the Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System hardware engineering group at NSWC PHD, circa 2018, including: Thomas Emmerich, Tomahawk product hardware lead (center in green jacket); and Mark Monaco, Tomahawk hardware design agent (left of Emmerich in light blue shirt).

Self Defense Test Ship Gets its First-Ever Hull Assessment to Clear the Way for Potential Dry Dock
April 15, 2020 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division's (NSWC PHD) Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS), which has a critical and unique role ensuring Navy ships are combat ready, recently returned from San Diego with a freshly-scrubbed hull and key information needed to prepare for a potential near-future dry dock.Retired USS Paul F. Foster, at 44 years... MORE

Seaward Marine Services’ proprietary Lamp Ray Remotely-Operated Vehicle crawling along the immersed hull of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division's Self Defense Test Ship in March in San Diego.

3D Printing Forges Transition From Traditional Casting To Additive Manufacturing
March 26, 2020 — Imagine being able to create a tool from scratch or replace an integral piece of machinery in a few hours while also reducing production cost and material waste.That’s possible now, thanks to NSWC PHD’s In-Service Engineering Agent of the Future (ISEAotF) team and Office of Technology (00T).ISEAotF community members learned how NSWC PHD Additive... MORE

NSWC PHD Command Additive Manufacturing (AM) Lead Engineer Armen Kvryan explains the advantages of AM over traditional manufacturing during an AM Deep Dive within an In-Service Engineering Agent of the Future training held onsite, March 3.

Educational Partnerships Extend NSWC PHD’s Reach for Future Workforce, Research, Testing
March 25, 2020 — NSWC PHD has long partnered with colleges and universities on student internships, grant-funded student projects and more. But it’s the Educational Partnership Agreements (EPA) that most support the command’s mission-focused capabilities and help build a future workforce.PHD leadership just inked its latest EPA with California Polytechnic State... MORE

NSWC PHD Division Manager Richard Watanabe (left), and Alan Jaeger (right), manager of NSWC PHD’s Office of Research and Technology Applications, chat with Trevor Harding, materials engineering department chair from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, during his visit to the command on March 6. NSWC PHD recently signed an Educational Partnership Agreement with Cal Poly with the hopes of providing opportunities for recruitment, research, internships and more.

NSWC Port Hueneme Division’s Collaboration with Navy Reservists Spreads Benefits Across Enterprise
March 20, 2020 — As Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (PHD) implements coronavirus prevention strategies, a collaboration between PHD engineers and Navy reservists is benefitting the command and beyond by bringing more training and greater use of ultra high-resolution 3D LIDAR scanning to Sailors, shipyards and across the Navy.The impacts are... MORE

LIDAR scanning the Self Defense Test Ship at Naval Surface Warfare Center

Mount Whitney Hike Transforms NSWC PHD Technical Director and Plants Backpacking Seed
November 26, 2019 — The grueling, daring, at times painful but personally satisfying climb up California’s Mount Whitney that Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) Technical Director Paul Mann did recently has left him empowered, encouraged, wiser and wanting more.Mann joined NSWC PHD’s Lt. Todd Coursey, In-Service Engineering Agent of the... MORE

View looking east across the Owens Valley towards the Inyo Mountains with Death Valley National Park just beyond them from around 11,000 feet altitude and about five miles up the trail toward Mount Whitney’s summit.

NSWC Security Researcher to Cybersecurity Event Attendees: ‘Bug Hunting’ is Critical
October 31, 2019 — Socrates Frangis knows quite a bit about bug hunting—the cyber kind, that is.Frangis, cybersecurity technical lead at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD), emphasized the critical importance of bug hunting in his keynote presentation at a free Cybersecurity Conference hosted by California State University, Channel Islands... MORE

(From right) Socrates Frangis, technical lead for cybersecurity at NSWC PHD, speaks to Ron Rieger, director of artificial intelligence with Semtech Corp. in Camarillo, Calif., and Paul Witman, Ph.D., director of graduate programs in information technology at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, Calif., about the growing need for cybersecurity systems and experts in both the private and public sectors.

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