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NASA Official Inspires NSWC Dahlgren Audience to ‘Find Your Voice’ at Hispanic Heritage Month Observance
September 17, 2019
IMAGE: KING GEORGE, Va. (Sept. 13, 2019) – Sandra Alba Cauffman – acting division director of the Earth Science Division at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate – holds a plaque she received from Eunice Mercado, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) Hispanic Employment Program manager, in appreciation of her keynote speech at the NSWCDD-sponsored Hispanic Heritage Month Observance. “Follow your dreams and do something you’re really passionate about,” said Cauffman, a native of Costa Rica, who was inspired to work for NASA while watching the Apollo 11 moon landing as a seven year old. Standing left to right are Luis Rodriguez, NSWCDD Hispanic Employment Program champion, Mercado, Cauffman, and Capt. Casey Plew, NSWCDD commanding officer.
U.S. Navy Sailors Test New Advanced Navigation Team Shipboard Simulation System
September 16, 2019
IMAGE: Glenn White (center), Office of Naval Research, discusses Mentor Station “real time” data analytics to John Fiore, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division technical director. The briefing occurred during an Advanced Navigation Team Shipboard Simulation Phase 1 system demonstration in the command’s Naval Simulation Center.
NSWCDD 2019 Hispanic Heritage Month Profile – Moises Iglesias, Electromagnetic Railgun Lead Systems Engineer
September 16, 2019
IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (Sept. 5, 2019) - Moises Iglesias – lead systems engineer for the electromagnetic railgun weapon system at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) – discusses railgun design considerations with his colleague, Pierre Avila, NSWCDD computer scientist. “A leader helps the organization, the team, and its members become famous - providing the tools, training, development, recognition and opportunities to deliver products that will help the organization and its members grow professionally and personally while establishing the organization’s National Subject Matter Expertise and Recognition,” said Iglesias, an avid runner and native of Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Dahlgren Holds 9/11 Observance Ceremony
September 12, 2019
IMAGE: DAHLGREN. Va. (Sept. 11, 2019) – Navy chief select Michael Hanley shares a story of heroism in response to the terrorist attacks and ensuing tragedies on 9/11. Hanley was one of seven chief select ‘heroism readers’ based at commands located on Naval Surface Facility Dahlgren who recounted acts of heroism on that tragic day in our nation’s history. Hanley – reading to military, first responders, government and contractor personnel gathered to honor the victims of 9/11 – recounted that: “Welles Crowther was an equities trader on the 104th floor of the South Tower. The man was a volunteer firefighter in his teens, he made his way down to the 78th floor sky lobby and became a hero to the strangers who were trapped there. He helped injured and disoriented office workers to safety, risking his own life. Crowther directed survivors to the stairway and encouraged them to help others while he carried an injured woman on his back. After bringing her 15 floors down to safety, he made his way back up to help others. He never came back...”
NSWCDD M&S Community of Interest Hosts VV&A Seminar
September 10, 2019
IMAGE: KING GEORGE, Va. (Aug. 20, 2019) - Dr. James Elele – a leading expert in the field of Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) – is flanked by Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineers Bonita Davia and Sam Koski at a two-day seminar sponsored by the NSWCDD Modeling and Simulation Community of Interest. Elele briefed about 115 scientists and engineers attending the VV&A seminar from NSWCDD, NSWCDD Dam Neck Activity, NSWC Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, Marine Corps Systems Command, and Naval Air Station Patuxent River at the University of Mary Washington Dahlgren campus. The course brought together a huge diversity of modeling and simulation disciplines to collaborate and learn approaches to verification, validation, and accreditation.
NSWC Dahlgren Division Commanding Officer Promoted to Captain at Ceremony
September 3, 2019
IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (Aug. 30, 2019) – Rear Adm. Eric Ver Hage, Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers commander, left, promotes Cmdr. Casey Plew to the rank of captain before family, friends, and colleagues at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD). It was Plew’s second ceremony marking a career milestone in four months. The new Navy captain took command of NSWCDD – the Naval Sea System Command’s largest Naval Warfare Center – at a ceremony held on the Potomac River Test Range in April.
Navy, Marine Corps Leaders Witness New Expeditionary Warfare USV in Action at ANTX Demonstration
August 26, 2019
An Expeditionary Warfare Unmanned Surface Vessel autonomously navigates a predetermined course through the water during Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2019 at Camp Lejeune, N.C. July 12, 2019. ANTX East 2019 is an event designed to test new technology with acedemic, industry and Navy participants. (Marine Corps photo by LCpl. Nicholas Guevara)
NSWC Warfare Centers Host Sixth Annual Unmanned Systems Integration Workshop and Technical Exchange Meeting
August 19, 2019
IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (Aug. 8, 2019) - Steering Committee members of the Navy's sixth annual Unmanned Systems Integration Workshop and Technical Exchange Meeting are pictured at this year's event. Military and civilian unmanned, weapon, and energetic systems experts throughout the Naval Research and Development Establishment, Office of Secretary of Defense, and other services presented briefs and engaged in discussions on technologies and policies related to the strategies and challenges for test and evaluation of weaponized unmanned systems. Speakers and attendees networked while discussing partnerships, technology efforts, policy and demonstrated programs at the two-day event co-hosted by Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division, NSWC Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (IHEODTD), and the Unmanned Vehicle and Autonomous Systems Group at Naval Sea Systems Command. The workshop and technical exchange was sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (Tactical Warfare Systems Office and the Land Warfare and Munitions Office), the Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise and the NSWC Warfare Centers. The event’s Steering Committee members left to right: Reid McAllister, Integrated Unmanned Maritime Mobility Systems director at NSWC Carderock Division; Carrie Gonzalez, NSWCDD project manager; Penny Moran, NSWCDD Autonomy Lead; Amy O'Donnell, NSWC IHEODTD deputy technical director; Daniel Pines, NSWC IHEODTD chief innovation officer; Dr. John Wilkinson, NSWC IHEODTD customer advocate for Science and Technology Business Development; and Tony Harris, NSWCDD Unmanned and Autonomous Systems Branch head.
NSWC Dahlgren Division Institutionalizes ‘Technical Excellence Framework’ to Ensure Warfighter Success
August 13, 2019
IMAGE: PACIFIC OCEAN (June 23, 2010) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) successfully launches its second Tomahawk missile during weapons testing. Sterett is underway off the coast of Southern California conducting Tomahawk missile testing in preparation for an upcoming deployment.
STEM Educators Engage with Navy Scientists at ‘STEM Workshop for Educators’
August 9, 2019
IMAGE: KING GEORGE, Va. (July 30, 2019) – Navy engineer Page Wessel, left, briefs a local school teacher on the use of coding blocks to write a program for the Mindstorm EV3 robot at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) STEM Workshop for Educators at the University of Mary Washington Dahlgren campus. Wessel was among the NSWCDD scientists and engineers who joined university professors at the workshop to share best practices and ideas for project based learning in STEM with elementary, middle, and high school educators. The forum featured briefings and demonstrations while the educators participated in hands-on activities that they could pass on to other teachers and students at their respective schools. The activities included, “Straw Rockets and Mini-Railgun”, “Ozobots and Littlebits Engineering”, and “EV3 LEGO Robotics”.