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NSWCDD interns compete in Modeling and Simulation Toolbox Summer Hackathon
August 25, 2023 — With a large number of interns and recent hires at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) this year, Hackathon creators Gary Pepper and Joshua Shiben of the Warfare Analysis and Digital Modeling Department were busy coming up with events to engage the new faces.Pepper and Shiben hosted four Modeling and Simulation Toolbox (MAST)... MORE

IMAGE: Prem Gandhi, an intern in the Weapons Control and Integration Department at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), concentrates during the Modeling and Simulation Toolbox Summer Hackathon July 19 in NSWCDD’s iLab.

Exposure and Experience – NSWC Dahlgren Division Employees Participate in AI/ML Hackathon
November 10, 2022 — Hacking is not normally a skill you would highlight on a resume. According to a popular security company, there are around 2,200 cyberattacks a day that could equate to more than 800,000 people being hacked per year. At Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), hackathons hosted at Dahlgren’s Innovation Lab (iLab) provide the... MORE

IMAGE: Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) hosted their fourth Hackathon of the year, from Oct. 25-27, at the Innovation Lab. The Hackathon collaborated with NVIDIA to provide NSWCDD employees the tools to train in the specific topics of data augmentations, model evaluations and optimizations, automatic speech recognition and NSWCDD’s industry partner, NVIDIA’s train, adapt and optimize toolkit.

NSWC Dahlgren Division Hosts New Employee MAST Hackathon
September 27, 2022 — Imagine all that stands between you and surviving the next few minutes in a vessel in the middle of the ocean is a small calculation. You keep looking over your work and you assure your superior it is correct. With a swift press of a button, relief is brought to the ship as you safely eliminate the impending threat.While this may seem like an... MORE

IMAGE: On Sept. 16, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division hosted a Modeling and Simulation Toolbox Hackathon for new employees. The participants were split into teams based on their department with members across different branches.

NSWC Dahlgren Division Summer Interns Battle for Supremacy of the Seas During Hackathon
August 5, 2022 — It’s World War II and U.S. Navy convoys are sailing dangerous waters on a mission to deliver troops and equipment to the battlefronts across the Atlantic. U-boats lurk like great white sharks just below the choppy surface. Suddenly, the terrifying wake of a torpedo speeds towards the convoy. A supply ship is struck portside as the convoy’s... MORE

IMAGE: Readiness and Training Systems Department interns (from left to right) Johnathan Gilliam, Alexander Brown, CJ Paterno and Will Anderson collaborate on designing the destroyers that will protect the team’s digital convoy against marauding enemy U-boats during the Wargaming Hackathon at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Innovation Lab on July 12. For some of the summer interns, the competition was the first time they engaged in computer programming and digital modeling activities.

Innovation Lab Hosts Modeling and Simulation Toolbox Hackathon
February 10, 2022 — At the start of a cold Thursday in January, a group of more than 20 scientists and engineers from Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) filed into the Innovation Lab, or iLab, for a day of learning and executing new skills. The NSWCDD innovators participated in the iLab’s second Modeling and Simulation Toolbox (MAST) Hackathon... MORE

IMAGE: On Jan. 27, 21 scientists and engineers from Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s seven technical departments participated in a modeling and simulation toolbox (MAST) hackathon at the iLab. The model is accessible to all NSWCDD programs and projects and does not require advanced programming experience.

NSWCDD Technical Departments Compete at iLab’s JCORE Wargaming Hackathon
August 19, 2021 — On Aug. 10-12, more than 20 engineers and scientists from Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s (NSWCDD) technical departments gathered at its Innovation Lab (iLab) for a wargaming hackathon.“A lot of people think of a hackathon as an event where one might break into a computer or network,” explained iLab Deputy Director Tamara Stuart... MORE

IMAGE: (Left to right) NSWCDD Integrated Combat Systems employees Justin Foulks, Katelyn Barbre and Brandon Marine troubleshoot their solution at the NSWCDD Innovation Lab’s wargaming hackathon on Aug. 11. Teams used their artificial intelligence and machine learning backgrounds to compete against other departments at the event Aug.11-13.

NSWCDD iLab Hosts Wargaming Hackathon with Summer Interns
August 13, 2021 — The task? Design a destroyer to escort a WWII-era Allied convoy to U.S. waters while avoiding Axis submarine attacks. The tasked? Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) summer interns.On July 27, NSWCDD interns representing every technical department across the warfare center engaged in a wargaming hackathon at NSWCDD’s Innovation... MORE

IMAGE: Ellianna Bailey, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Test Engineer and participant, observes wargaming challenges during the Wargaming Hackathon event at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, July 27. The bootcamp portion included tutorials on modeling and simulation concepts. The afternoon session included surface warfare scenarios followed by increasingly more difficult scenarios where participants used their acquired M&S skills to defeat the enemy. This event provided an overview of Naval capabilities across all departments.

NSWCDD Focuses on Quantum Computing with its First-Ever Hackathon
June 10, 2021 — The Innovation Lab at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) hosted its first-ever hackathon in partnership with Microsoft June 2-4.While the term hackathon may conjure up familiar depictions in media of a raucous semi-sporting event where audiences look on as hackers write line by line of code to break into a borderline... MORE

IMAGE: The teams finished up the event with presentations, followed by the hosts awarding the three top teams. Along the back (from left to right) B Department DevOps Lead Corwin Daigle, E36 Department Scientist William Carter, E17 Department Scientist Spencer Beloin, Deputy Chief Technology Officer Karen Smith, Chief Technology Officer Jennifer Clift, Microsoft Technical Strategist Monica DeZulueta, iLab Director Dr. John Rigsby, Deputy iLab Director Tamara Stuart, iLab System Engineer Eric Hayes, V12 Department Software Engineer Devin Drake, H24 Department Software Engineer Israel Johnson, H Department Scientist Ethan Hada and M Department Coder Michael Hurbert. Along the front (from left to right) Analyst for the A department Robert Pullin, B Department Scientist Stefano Coronado, E Department Test Engineer Scott Heyman, V Department Cost Analyst Katelyn Barbre and B35 Department Scientist Ryan Olk.

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