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Navy awards Block V Virginia-class submarine contract
December 2, 2019 — The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a nine-ship -- eight with Virginia Payload Module (VPM) -- Block V contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) Dec. 2. The contract includes an option for one additional submarine with VPM. The Block V contract is a $22.2-billion fixed-price incentive fee, multi-year procurement contract for fiscal years... MORE

Official U.S. Navy file photo of Virginia-class submarine the future USS Delaware (SSN 791).

Product delivery: A system-wide approach to supporting the fleet
November 27, 2019 — When a command is as large as Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, it is sometimes challenging to grasp how each person, shop and code contributes to the mission of maintaining, modernizing and retiring the Navy's fleet; however, every individual at the command has an important piece in meeting that mission.Command... MORE

USS Nimitz (CVN 68) arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility March 1, 2018.

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.

Microsoft Tactical Vehicle Takes Center Stage at NSWC Dahlgren Innovation Day
November 26, 2019 — KING GEORGE, Va. – U.S. Navy scientists and engineers gathered to watch MTV but rather than music videos, they saw quantum-based computing, virtual reality, and DeepCam image recognition among a host of technological solutions emanating from the cloud. The MTV they witnessed – an SUV jam-packed with new technological capabilities, sensors, onboard... MORE

IMAGE: CORAL SEA (July 11, 2019) The U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) leads a formation of 17 other ships from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) during Talisman Sabre 2019. Talisman Sabre 2019 illustrates the closeness of the Australian and U.S. alliance and the strength of the military-to-military relationship. This is the eighth iteration of this exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jason Tarleton/Released)

Shipyard and consulting group team up to improve processes
November 26, 2019 — When representatives from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility and from the Boston Consulting Group teamed up to improve processes and workflow in Shop 31 Work Center-402, Ball valves, they realized they would need to physically transform the ball valve workspace in conjunction with process improvement to reach their... MORE

Romel Ramos, a bench mechanic with Shop 31, Inside Machine Shop, updates the status board for employees with Work Center-402 inside Building 432.

Culpeper County Middle School Students Tour NSWC Dahlgren
November 25, 2019 — DAHLGREN, Va. – The seventh grade students visiting Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities saw a century of Dahlgren during a special tour.The Culpeper Middle School and Floyd T. Binnis Middle School students – who participate in the Academically Challenging... MORE

IMAGE: Seventh grade students from Culpeper Middle School and Floyd T. Binnis Middle School visited Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD). The students – who participate in the Academically Challenging Education or ACE program at their schools – toured Dahlgren and participated in a myriad of science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities during their visit. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

LCS Mission Module Program Office Completes At-Sea Demonstration of GARC/TALONS System
November 25, 2019 — PANAMA CITY, Fla. – The Navy completed a demonstration of the Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft (GARC) and Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS), the service announced Nov. 25.The GARC/TALONS prototype is being evaluated to provide enhanced communication ranges for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mine Countermeasure (MCM) Mission... MORE

The Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS) is a parafoil-based system shown kiting from the Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft. TALONS relays data between the MCM USV and the LCS via the government-developed multi-vehicle communication relays system.

NSWC Corona Addresses the Navy’s Need for Urgency
November 22, 2019 — Capt. Khary W. Hembree-Bey, commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, stressed the urgency of attacking the Navy’s issues – including the threat of adversaries – at his monthly town hall meeting with employees Nov. 20.“What is the great power competition? It’s analogous to the Cold War,” said Hembree-Bey. “We’re not going... MORE

Capt. Khary W. Hembree-Bey, commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Corona, addresses employees during his monthly town hall meeting.

Promising new tool protects Ships, Sailors
November 21, 2019 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) is developing another way to protect naval assets and Sailors at the pointy end of the spear.Maritime Vessel Stopping Occlusion Technologies, or MVSOT, is a promising non-lethal tool for the warfighter to significantly slow or stop an on-coming target vessel. The MVSOT team specifically... MORE

The Maritime Vessel Stopping Occlusion Technologies, or MVSOT, team at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division investigates natural hagfish slime as an inspiration for a non-lethal capability.

Naval Historians, Authors Highlight Battle of Midway Heroes at Dahlgren
November 21, 2019 — DAHLGREN, Va. – It was a day Laura Orr did not expect in 2011 – a returned phone call from legendary Battle of Midway dive-bomber pilot Norman Jack “Dusty” Kleiss.Orr, special events coordinator at Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, Va., at the time, had called him with a speaking invitation. Although he accepted, he was unable to speak due to... MORE

IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (Nov. 15, 2019) - Timothy Orr, an associate professor of military history at Old Dominion University, and co-author of “Never Call Me A Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway,” stresses the importance of never forgetting the Battle of Midway warfighters. He shares their stories as a part of the Naval Heritage Command Lecture Series sponsored by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Integrated Combat Systems Department Nov. 15 at the base theater. “No matter what they did, whether they came back or died out on the ocean, were wounded, or blew up in their plane – all of that is a story worth telling,” he said. “It explains how the U.S. eventually triumphed over the empire of Japan in the Pacific War. It really shapes the world as we know it today.”

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