The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Centers are composed of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). They operate in a seamless integrated manner, collaborate with customers and each other, use a common work assignment process to get the right work to the right site, improve business processes to become more efficient, and have shifted from local to national technical leadership. NSWC includes ten principle sites (Carderock, Corona, Crane, Dahlgren, Dam Neck, Indian Head, Panama City, Philadelphia, Port Hueneme and the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division) and NUWC includes two divisions (Keyport and Newport).
The Warfare Centers' value proposition for the Navy Enterprises and other customers and stakeholders is:
Ensuring the technical community understands the warfighter's needs
- Developing, integrating and maintaining systems for warfighting
- Providing technical solutions for warfighting problems when impractical for industry
- Evaluating solutions to enable smart buyer decisions
- Verifying that ships and weapons systems are safe and effective
- Providing life cycle technical support for ships, submarines and related warfare systems
- Maintaining vital technical capabilities and facilities not commercially feasible
- Providing the technical linkage for interdependence with the joint force, the Coast Guard, homeland security and other agencies.
Principal lines of business range from ship design, to developing and deploying new capabilities, to supporting warfighters in theater, to helping our nation with national needs. Warfare Centers technical expertise spans numerous technical capabilities and covers a full spectrum of systems and products identified within different core equities available to support warfighters and homeland defenders.
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