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Growing up in war-torn Vietnam, leads NSWCDD chief engineer in lifelong pursuit of stability
May 3, 2023 — At the tender age of six, Kathleen “Katie” Young endured the instability of a country torn apart by civil war. Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese on April 30, 1975, ending the Vietnam War and forever changing the trajectory of her family’s life.Young’s family enjoyed an upper-class life, including a lovely house with a service staff. Her father... MORE

IMAGE: Kathleen “Katie” Young is a chief engineer in Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Strategic and Computing Systems Department. Young’s early life was thrown into chaos as her family suffered turmoil and sadness in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

NSWC Dahlgren Division and JPRIMES Electromagnetic Vulnerability Test Team Wins Award
June 23, 2022 — The Air Force Materiel Command’s Joint Preflight Integration Munitions Environmental Simulator and Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Electromagnetic Vulnerability Test team received the 2021 Q3 Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Legacy Air Dominance External Team of the Quarter Award for their outstanding performance, dedication... MORE

IMAGE: The Air Force Materiel Command’s Joint Preflight Integration Munitions Environmental Simulator and Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Electromagnetic Vulnerability Test team received the 2021 Q3 Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Legacy Air Dominance External Team of the Quarter Award for completing a series of free flight electromagnetic vulnerability tests on a missile during the summer of 2021.

NSWC Dahlgren Division PEVS Pilot Program Provided Essential Test Analytics for Next Generation System
January 26, 2022 — What would you do to protect your home from threats? Determining external threat vulnerabilities and effective and affordable security measures come to mind, with the objective being to prevent or neutralize the threat while minimizing harm or damage.Along the same lines, personnel tasked with protecting government areas and military bases deploy... MORE

IMAGE: – Pre-emplaced Electric Vehicle Stopper (PEVS) Primary Engineer Kevin Arrington, PEVS Engineer Joshua Rawles, PEVS Project Lead David Dvorak, Booz Allen Hamilton Contract Engineer Kevin Komiensky and PEVS Technical Lead Dr. Yeong-Jer Chen stand in front of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers sign at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.

Junior Navy Technologists Create Autonomous Swarm Capability for Warfighters
August 31, 2018 — DAHLGREN, Va. – What happens when STEM college graduates are tested reality TV style with a situation akin to Survivor, House, The Apprentice, and Shark Tank on a sprawling Naval base on the banks of the Potomac?The Navy waited patiently for the answer as the stars – within two years of earning their STEM (science, technology, engineering and... MORE

IMAGE: DAHLGREN (Aug. 7, 2018) – Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) Commanding Officer Capt. Godfrey ‘Gus’ Weekes holds the USS Arlington (LPD-24) coin that was presented to NSWCDD Sly Fox Mission 23 team members while they were deployed aboard the Arlington for a week via the Scientists, Engineers and Logisticians to Sea program sponsored by NSWCDD Dam Neck Activity and NSWCDD. While at sea, the seven-member Mission 23 team presented the NSWCDD coin to Arlington’s commanding officer, who in turn, presented his warship’s coin to the Dahlgren junior scientists and engineers. Pictured left to right at the demonstration of Autonomous Remote Tactical Engagement Multi-Domain Intelligence Swarm capabilities: Conrad Brown, Ryan Munz, Kim Wendt, Capt. Weekes, Philip Costello, Devon McKiver, Luis Valcourt-Colon, and Melissa Markle.

Retired Admiral Annie Andrews Inspires Audience at Navy Women's History Month Celebration
April 11, 2018 — DAHLGREN, Va. – Annie Andrews – the third woman to achieve the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy – once encountered a novelty sticker that declared: “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” The sticker is “quite accurate,” she told an audience of military, government civilians, defense contractors and visitors celebrating National Women's... MORE

Navy Railgun Lines Named for Two Electromagnetic Railgun Visionaries at Ceremony
February 27, 2018 — DAHLGREN, Va. – The Navy dedicated and named its electromagnetic railgun lines in honor of two public servants who envisioned, nurtured, and laid the foundation for the U.S. Navy’s Electromagnetic Railgun Program at a ceremony held in their honor, Feb. 22. Posters and plaques commemorating the naming of the railgun lines for Adm. James Hogg (ret.)... MORE

IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (Feb. 22, 2018) – Capt. Godfrey 'Gus' Weekes, right, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division commanding officer, and Donald McCormack, left, executive director of the Naval Surface and Undersea Warfare Centers, present commemorative plaques to retired Adm. James Hogg, second from left, and Dr. Hans Mark, during an electromagnetic railgun line naming ceremony. As public servants, Hogg and Mark laid the foundation for the U.S. Navy Railgun Program and led the effort to explore and illustrate to senior leadership the warfighting advantages of this game-changing technology and were pivotal in gaining the initial funding necessary to demonstrate its feasibility. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)

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