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Community Inquiries: Members of the community can contact Base Public Affairs with all questions or concerns
including base operations, recreation, security, and noise at 1-540-653-8153.
As a Department of Defense (DoD) Energetics Center, the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (IHDIV, NSWC) is a leader in the Navy’s Energetics Enterprise—it is our job to research and provide energetics and energetic systems for our fighting forces around the globe.
“Energetic systems” refers to explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics and their immediately related components. Complementing our energetic materials formulation work, we research, develop, test and engineer the range of technologies necessary to deliver ordnance to the military.
In short, the U.S. Navy and other DoD agencies and allied nations come to IHDIV/NSWC for energetic systems solutions—we support the warfighter of today, anticipate their future needs, and make discoveries for the next generation.
