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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.

NSWC Dahlgren Honors American Indian Heritage, Culture, and Traditions
November 26, 2019 — DAHLGREN, Va. – The day nationally celebrated as the first Thanksgiving marks the historic occasion when the English colonists and the Wampanoag North American Indians joined for a harvest feast in 1621.The Wampanoag were a confederacy of tribes of the Northeast Woodland Native American cultural group who spoke in Algonquian.Minnie Lightner of the... MORE

IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (Nov. 21, 2019) - Capt. Casey Plew, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) commanding officer, presents the Dahlgren history book, "The Sound of Freedom," to Twila Bradley and Minnie Lightner, guest speakers at the NSWCDD sponsored National American Indian Heritage Month Observance at the base theater. Bradley and Lightner – members of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia – spoke about the culture, history, and contributions of the Patawomeck Tribe in terms of the heritage month’s 2019 theme: “Honoring Our Nations: Building Strength Through Understanding”. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

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)

NAVSEA Inclusion and Engagement Council moving along after a year
November 26, 2019 — Just over a year has passed since Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) established the Inclusion and Engagement Council.“This council will help eliminate barriers to building and maintaining a workforce that accepts people from all walks of life so we can focus on our mission,” said Jim Smerchansky, NAVSEA executive director, in an October 2018 email... MORE

The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Inclusion and Engagement (IE) Council

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 Greenough Advanced Rescue 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 Package that... MORE

The Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS) is a parafoil-based system shown kiting from the Greenough Advanced Rescue 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.

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