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March - April 2022 Vol. 10 Issue 2

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March - April 2022 | Vol. 10 Issue 2

About the PublicationThe Coastal Compass is published bimonthly by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) and is an authorized medium for news of general interest about employees of NSWC PCD and their work.

All content is provided and prepared by the NSWC PCD Office of Public and Congressional Affairs (Code 1031).

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On the Cover16 Awards were presented during the 2021 Annual Awards

Editorial StaffProduction ManagersEdward Buczek Head, Corporate Communication Division, Code 103Katherine Mapp Public Affairs OfficerHead, Internal/External Communication and Community Relations Branch, Code 1031Bob LindeeHead, Visual Information Branch, Code 1032

Writing StaffCierra BurchPublic Affairs SpecialistAwards Writer & ContributorJeremy RomanPublic Affairs SpecialistShauna Love-vonKnoblauchPublic Affairs Specialist Historian & ContributorCapt. Allison BurnsProtocol Officer

Design StaffChristine WardGraphic DesignerCatherine LaytonGraphic DesignerJanice GrantPrint Specialist

PhotographyRonnie NewsomePhotographerAnthony PowersPhotographerEddie GreenPhotographer

Dr. Peter Adair, SESTechnical Director

Capt. David Back, USNCommanding Officer

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CONTENTS

07 19 2204 View from the Bridge

05 Welcome AboardCivilian Length of Service

06Patents

07Annual Awards

12NSWC PC Information Technology team excels in technology refresh

11NSWC PCD engineer receives Navy medal for excellence, mission impact

10Special Act Awards Quarterly Awards 23

Comptroller

24Division Spotlight

14Tide Riser innovation propels NAVSEA mission priorities

13NSWC PCD ushers in latest IT capability innovation

19Logistics Community of Practice Face to Face 2022

17Women of the Warfare Centers event celebrates contributions

18Commander, NAVSEA Visit 25

Awards NewsIT’s News You Can Use

21Threat Tracker presented at Sea Air Space ExpoBay County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Bay class

20Out & About Leadership Wrapped Up Spring 2022 Strategic Onsite

27Safety

26Personnel SecurityDAWIA

22STEM Outreach

15NSWC PCD, HII reach R&D agreement through unmanned threat detection and intervention system

16NSWC PCD propels supervisory professional development


Capt. David Back, USNCommanding Officer

Dr. Peter Adair, SESTechnical Director

Everything we do boils down to people – from supporting the warfighter on the front lines across the

globe, to developing tomorrow’s technologies.

As you begin to read this edition of the Coastal Compass, you will soon realize this edition’s focus is awards. Annual Awards, Quarterly Awards, and other recognitions of our people.

We were honored to host the first “in person” Annual Awards ceremony since 2019 on March 25th in a small ceremony to recognize our outstanding nomi-nees and awardees. Additionally, we announced the recipients of our com-mand’s first Quarterly Awards.

As anyone who reads the Commanding Officer’s Daily knows, we are advo-cates for employee recognition. To all winners, take the opportunity to applaud and celebrate. For each award recipi-ent and nominee, take a moment and give yourself a pat on the back for your accomplishments.

Reviewing and selecting the top awardees is not an easy feat. This year’s awardees represent the best of the best at our command over the course of this last year. Their technical rigor, innova-tion, and dedication has set the standard for other employees to emulate – and the bar continues to rise.

Winning an award does not mean your job is done – it is just beginning.

During the Annual Awards ceremony, we challenged all nominees and awardees to not only continue this pattern of excel-lence, but also to mentor or champion others. To receive a prestigious award is the first step in making a difference in humbly tackling the next challenge in support of the mission and our nation’s warfighters.

Everything we do boils down to people – from supporting the warfighter on the front lines across the globe, to devel-oping tomorrow’s technologies. Our people are the foundation on which we are built and the life force on which the organization thrives. For over 75 years, our people have been at the helm deliv-ering capabilities and world renowned services to the Navy and Marine Corps mission. Because of our dynamic and forward leaning team, we are poised to embark on a journey to support the next 75 years.

Again, congratulations to all awardees!

David Back, USNCommanding Officer

Dr. Peter Adair, SES NSWC PCD Technical Director

NSWC PCD Team,

DONE


15 ERIK LINDMANFRANCISCO MIRAMONTESMICHAEL ROWEMICHAEL SMALLKIMBERLY TENBROECKDEQUAN WAHEEDCHRISTOPHER WELLER

10 ANGELA JENKINSMONICA QUEENSHAYNA ZELEZNIK

30 MARY LANGFELDTLUIS RAMIREZLUGO

25 PETER ADAIRTONY HILLROBERT LUDWIG

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20 KERI KAZEBEERRYAN STEWART

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ofWELCOME ABOARD

Darren Saccone 00N

Rosalia Bellisima 1021 Melanie Floyd 102 Aisha Houser 1014 Alejandro Kato 1041 Andrea Petro 1013

Stephanie Anderson A14

James Bennett E52Mackenzie Blair E42 Jonathan Eggers E32 Blake Flohre E12Anthony Kitchen E11 Daniel Klemfuss E26Bryan Marales Justiniano E34 Melissa Paterson E51 Justin Sarayba E33Alex Teas E53 Andrew Watkins E33 Angela Williams E32

Nicholas Palermo X11

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Self-Surveying Navigation System for Underwater Navigation

Marine Biodegradeable Composition for 3D Printing

Pressure Deifferential Payload Release Mechanism Vehicle Ramp Restraint Apparatus

Not Pictured:

Modular & Scalable Mine RollerTelescopic-Width Mine Roller

Daniel Kucik, John Dudinsky Matthew Kincer

Joseph Jacquemin John Ducote, James Sovel

Bobbi Wood, Daniel Coats, Patrick Delay, Jeremy Croom

Bobbi Wood, Patrick Delay, Daniel Coats, Jeremy Croom

Patents

Tunable Contact Microphone

Frank Downs, Jr.

Magnetically Actuated Fluid Control Valve

Bryan Reynoso

Non-Invasive Method of Affixing Surface Components to Maritime Equipment

Robert Conner

Not pictured: Hal Rhea

Not pictured: Paul Moser, Philip Bernstein

Not pictured: Dustin Bride Not pictured: Dustin Bride

U.S. Navy photos by Eddie Green

Not pictured: Bryan Reynoso

Not pictured: Joshua Kogot, April Hirsch


AwardsA N N U A L

N S W C P A N A M A C I T Y D I V I S I O N

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PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Over 100 exceptional personnel were recognized at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Annual Awards Ceremony held at Gulf Coast State College (GCSC), March 25.

The ceremony marked the first in-person annual awards ceremony since the start of the pandemic. The award process has a six-week nomination period where any civilian or military personnel can nominate other civilian and military personnel for fiscal year contributions and accomplishments with chain of command approval. This year, 74 nominations for teams and individuals across 15 award categories were received.

As an advocate for employee recognition, NSWC PCD Commanding Officer, Capt. David Back, encourages personnel to continue to build on their momentum and success.

“These awardees represent the best of the best at our command over the course of this last year,” states Back. “It is humbling and inspiring to receive a more in-depth view of the work our command does each day to support our sailors and marines. I encourage this group to continue this pattern of excellence, and mentor or champion others.”

NSWC PCD added three new categories since last year’s ceremony, one being the Business Excellence Award. Katherine Mapp, NSWC PCD Public Affairs officer, was awarded the command’s first Business Excellence Award.

“I was honored to learn of my nomination and selection,” said Mapp. “Receiving this award is a reflection of my dynamic team we have built and the great things we do as a whole. Many great things are to come for the command and we are so excited!”

Though the workforce and families were unable to physically attend this year’s ceremony, Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD technical director stresses the importance of partnerships and collaboration, while standing in the building of one of NSWC PCD’s educational partners, GCSC.

“Though this awards ceremony recognizes the work accomplished locally, Capt. Back and I were able to see the collaboration efforts with other Warfare Centers, branches of the military, and with many universities across the nation,” states Adair. “It all boils down to people. People [our workforce and our partners] are the foundation of everything we do here at the Navy Lab.”

The ceremony was recorded and streamed via internal streaming platforms and social media.

By Cierra Burch, NSWC PCD Public Affairs U.S. Navy photos by Eddie Green


Business ExcellenceKatherine Mapp

Tinsley Ihaksi Stephen Weathers

Exemplary LeadershipBrian Brock

Technical ExcellenceStefanie Barron

Dr. David P. Skinner Outstanding Scientific

& Engineering

Neil Matson

Exemplary LeadershipDeAnna Pedersen

Career AchievementJohn Dudinsky

Exceptional Technical Support

Dr. Melissa MarchandOutstanding

Organization Support

Donald Stanfill

Hall of FameBarry Miller

Outstanding InnovationNew Employee Exceptional Achievement

Individual Awards

Not Pictured:

Outstanding Fleet Support

Ira Haraughty, Robert Abbott, James Wolf, John Brooks, Christopher Martin

Not pictured: Louis Barba, Len Barron, Chris Chapman, Steve Dunaway, Scott Feenstra, John Habina, Jay Herin, Brett Lee,

Michael MacDonald, Michael Madigan, Mitchell Martin, Curtis McNeal, Burt Moreau, Keith Rogers, Scott Sones,

Gerald Whitmore, Mark Williams, Jason Wilson

Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) Support Services

Excellence in Business Innovation

Phillip Fulks, Susan Clancy, Kate Pennington

Support Agreement Routing Tool (SART) Team

Outstanding Team Achievement

Zachary Goldsmith, Daniel Beech, Cynthia Davis, Joshua Jordan, Natasha Gabreleski, Dustin Pilcher, Michelle Henderson, Sharon Brakey, Brian Brock

Not pictured: Joshua Everett, Jay Atkins, Pedro Lopez, Chris Meunier, Jose Ortiz, Demarkis Pope

Precise Integrated Navigation System (PINS) In-Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) Team

Outstanding Program Success

From Left to right: Barbara Kuzan, Churchill Okello, Lindsey Dupriest, Scott Dorsch, Benjamin Mitchell, Diego Langoni, Zena Le, Joshua Strickland, John Patrick Negrido,

Anh-Vo Nguyen, Matthew Vowell, Clarissa Reeves, and Danielle Bingham

Not Pictured: Brant Bickhaus, Evan McCaw, Daniel Fopa, Michael Dawson, Ricardo Gibson, Torey Williams, Amanda McFarlin, William Porter, Ratha An,

John Brady, Tri Ngo, Jason Hyndman, Robert Conner, Muhibus Chaudhury, Michael Langford, George Thrasher, and Justice Wobser.

Multi-Vehicle Communication Systems (MVCS) Team

Outstanding Organizational Support

Front Row Left to Right: Justin Bibler, Gregory Brakey, Denise Lassiter, Wynne Bischoff, Heather Deich, Major Lisa Trawick, Michael Sumpter, Kelly Boyce

Back Row Left to Right: Byron Diltz, Jerry Sanlor, CMSgt Christopher Miller, TSgt Tatchy Kragbe, TSgt Tafari Plummer, Leon Faircloth

Not Pictured: Zena Sowell, Timothy Toms, Vincent Walker, Russel Dorr, Joseph Lownie Jr, Keely Westbrook, Greg Boone, Charles Faircloth

Code 1042Collaboration Excellence

Barracuda Team

Back Row Left to Right: Tyler Moak, Richard Hayward, Nathan Mauntler, Brian Pridgen, Alexander Spotswood, Jeremiah Mandello

Front Row Left to Right: James Carter, Mary Atchinson, Samantha Tritt, Maynor Pinell Jr.

Not pictured: Alfredo Granado, Tanner Reynolds, Katherine Maglio

Team Awards


Quarterly Awards

Team of the Quarter

From left to right: Jena Rhea, Omar Galban, Jessica Haig, Eric Pierce, Carlos Gonzalez, Jeffrey Kiser, Jonathan Nicklaus, Aaron Nicholas

Not pictured: Robert E. Cole, Haydlee Slutsky, Fiamma Fernandez, Micheal Macdonald, Timothy Nehring, Kevin Meaux

Ship to Shore Connector Ship Interface Test

Spearhead Award of the Quarter

Clyde BrownAccepted by supervisor, Bobbi Wood

on behalf of Fiamma Fernandez

New Employee of the Quarter

Fiamma Fernandez

Civilian of the QuarterCarla Stanton

Kristen Campbell

Rick Campbell

Lisa Sutton Scott LoweryDavid Kirkpatrick

Five individuals were awarded Special Act Awards for their efforts in the Note 5000 audit, preparation, and ensuring compliance February 20, 2022. The purpose of the Note 5000 is to establish policy, methodology, and processes for evaluation, quali-fication, and authorization of activities to perform work in compliance with Program requirements.

Special Act AwardsU.S. Navy photos by Eddie Green



Dr. Keith Aliberti, SSTM, NWSC PCD X De-partment head presents Lisa Arrieta NWSC PCD Acoustic Test Facility manager/Service Cost Center lead with a Department of the Navy Civilian Service Commendation medal

left to right: Rudy Arrieta, Dr. Joe Lopes, Lisa Arrieta, Dr. Jermaine Kennedy, Dr.

Keith Aliberti, Randy Lee, Amanda Bobe.

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Electronics Engineer Lisa Arrieta’s impact can be seen throughout the Naval Surface Activity installation (here/NSWC PCD). So much so, her efforts were recently awarded a Department of the Navy Civilian Service Commendation medal.

Arrieta serves as the Acoustic Test Facility manager/Service Cost Center lead. Since 2009, her efforts have been significant in obtaining $74M Capital Improvement Projects and Military Construction funding dollars for NSWC PCD projects.

This funding will provide facilities to further technology and advance the devel-opment of systems to ultimately benefit the warfighter.

Dr. Jermaine Kennedy, NSWC PCD Littoral Acoustics and Target Physics branch head, sees Arrieta’s crucial impact on equipment and facilities improvement first hand.

“Lisa has both a salient and estab-lished pattern of excellence in the realm of Capital Investment Program projects for the U.S. Navy over her career,” states Kennedy. “She has consistently demon-strated initiative and aptitude in securing world-class new or improved equipment and facilities to support technical programs spanning the entire technical gamut of science and technology, acquisition, and in-Fleet systems.”

Arrieta was honored to receive this award and shared her excitement for the NSWC PCD facilities to come.

“This award is a recognition of the dedication and commitment over many years to achieve world-class facilities that are used for projects across NSWC PCD, other Warfare Centers, academia, and sponsors,” states Arrieta. “Receiving this award was unexpected and I was very humbled. It has been a team effort with X department, Facilities, and NAVFAC Public Works, and it will be very exciting to see this new modern building being constructed over the next few years.”

Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD technical director, expressed the importance of Arrieta’s contributions and how it will leave a legacy for today’s and tomorrow’s fighting force.

“With technology ever-changing, is it crucial we have facilities to meet our needs and future needs,” states Adair. “Arrieta’s contributions significantly impact the capabilities for our command to continually provide solutions to the warfighter.”

NSWC PCD ENGINEER RECEIVES

NAVY MEDALFOR

EXCELLENCE, MISSION IMPACT

By Cierra Burch, NSWC PCD Public Affairs



PANAMA CITY, Fla.–The Information Management and Customer Support Branch (Code 1042) from Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) is a 46-person team that resiliently provides full-range information technology (IT) support. This team demonstrated flexibility, teamwork, and proficiency as they collabo-rated to complete the monumental task of providing a technology refresh to more than 2,300 seats. They were recognized during a presentation receiving a corporate opera-tions business excellence service star award and a special challenge coin on February 9.

“We had gone about four years without having new machines but the [tech refresh] customer service feedback we’ve received has been tremendous. It goes to show how their ability throughout the development process helped put our customers at ease during the stress and worry that comes from switching from one computer to another,” said David Hawes, acting Division Head and Command Information Officer. “Savings and customer service was delivered. We are grateful for their proficiency and expertise, because it allowed us to be successful and we wanted to let them know we feel their hard work.”

Prior to this technology refresh, produc-tivity loss was at a minimum loss of 2,000 personnel hours per day. This left NSWC

PCD with two options—pay $342 per seat to perform an exchange, or have Code 1042 perform the transition in house. Code 1042 accepted the challenge and not only completed this project one year before the former would have begun—saving more than $500k—but also provided a successful blue print for other tech refreshes.

“We are extremely proud of our team and the efficacy of their entire process,” said NSWC PCD Technical Director Dr. Peter Adair. “As other warfare centers across the enterprise have struggled with tech refreshes, I shared Code 1042’s results with warfare center command leadership. They echoed my sentiment that these are impres-sive results and will look to share the best practices across the One Team enterprise.”

In addition, the team continued their dependable daily command support, which included resolving 11,000 Alloy tickets ranging from different IT issues, such as account creation, software installation, network integration, telecom support, and scheduled network maintenance in 2021.

“Covering the variety of departments, personnel and their specific IT needs at NSWC PCD, provides plenty of potential challenges to overcome, while also consid-ering they really are on the frontline of support as they physically interact to help their customers. But they did it,” said

Jaimie Brock, Corporate Operations deputy department head. “Even in the few times we received constructive feedback, the team quickly folded that into the process and everything our IT professionals did went above and beyond expectations. I’ve never seen a team do this well and have so much positive feedback and excitement around what they were doing.”

The Information Management and Customer Support team’s talent, critical thinking proficiency, problem solving ability, and commitment to service directly impacted NSWC PCD resulting in an estimated savings of more than $800k and 2,500 personnel hours through the tech refresh and daily support activities.

“It feels great to be recognized especially when I didn’t realize the scope of the work and support the team was providing at first,” said Anthony Johnson Sr., Naval Support Activity Research Development Testing and Evaluation network administrator. “I believe, especially since many of us are prior service military members and led by Air Force Maj. Lisa Trawick, NSWC PCD IT project manager, that duty and quality were placed in high regard. I immensely appreciate the people I worked with, and couldn’t have asked for a better team.”

NSWC PANAMA CITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TEAM EXCELS IN TECHNOLOGY REFRESH By Cierra Burch and Jeremy Roman,

NSWC PCD Public Affairs

Code 1042: Wynne BischoffSteven Hunt, Greg Brakey, Heather Deich, Marcus Maddison, Denise Lassiter, Shelby Lium, Maj. Lisa Trawick,Philippe Whitted, Jeremy Coleman, John Lurry

CLIN 54 : Steven Elliott, Justin Horn

Code 1041 : Anthony Johnson, Jordan Moody

Facilities (102): Chris Owens

Courtesy Photo


Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) is at the forefront of information technology (IT) innovation as the Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Network has recently became the first Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Center (WC) to implement a local Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection to support telework for the Command’s RDT&E Network.

With the previous Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) becoming obsolete and lacking the advance next-gen and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) functionality needed for the latest cyber threats, the NSWC PCD team of Robert Ludwig, network enterprise architect, Nicole Hendrickson, system engineer, and Daniel Martir-Negron, network engineer, came together to bring about the WC newest IT capability. They will be using the Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), which is the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused NGFW.

“[This NGFW] delivers comprehensive, unified policy management of firewall functions, application control, threat prevention, and advanced malware protec-tion from the network to the endpoint,” said Ludwig, who designed, configured and implemented this project. “Not only does the local VPN capability help meet the demand of expanding teleworking conditions for the RDT&E customer and operational base, but also was more cost effective solution to stay with Cisco versus retooling with another brand/product.”

This capability allows RDT&E projects and programs to continue their vital work from anywhere by establishing a secure remote network connection.

“Providing these types of technologies to [our] engineers and scientist, allows them to continue working in the current

hybrid work environment,” said Ludwig. “They have and still are able to rapidly deliver solutions for the warfighter on-site or from an approved telework location.

NSWC PCD will be the first WC to use this technology for VPN access to the RDT&E network.

“[We are now able to] benchmark and chart a new course with other WCs, because we have already navigated through the integration/configuration pains of this new technology, said Ludwig. “We have already began collaborating with other WCs on our integration steps as they begin or consider migrating to the Cisco Secure Firewall solution.”

The mission of NSWC PCD is to conduct research, development, test and evalua-tion, in-service support of mine warfare systems, mines, naval special warfare systems, diving and life support systems, amphibious/expeditionary maneuver warfare systems, other missions that occur primarily in coastal (littoral) regions and works to Ensure Warfighting Dominance in the Littoral Battlespace.

“Whether the capability is needed on-site or via teleworking, providing reliable RDT&E network access bodes well in supporting efforts across various labs, because not every lab or research project works/runs eight to five operations. Many of the efforts incorporate locations and customers across the globe in various time zones,” Ludwig said. “The IT Division aims to bring more technological innovation and functionality to the RDT&E network to better serve our customers. Currently, we are researching several new technolo-gies that will allow us to the support the workforce to meet current and future warfighter missions.”

NSWC PCD USHERS IN LATEST IT CAPABILITY INNOVATIONBy Jeremy Roman NSWC PCD Public Affairs


TIDE RISER INNOVATION PROPELS NAVSEA MISSION PRIORITIES

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—The strength of NAVSEA Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Center’s three mission prior it ies—Deliver Combat Power, Transform Digital Capability and Build a Team to Compete and Win—depends on the condition and stability of its individual parts, and how they must align and work seamlessly together. A recent accomplish-ment and innovation here at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) personifies that very idea of how overall mission success is fortified in the details.

The Information Management and Customer Support Branch (Code 1042) from NSWC PCD recently completed a Navy/Marine Corps Intranet Tech Refresh where more than 2,400 users were upgraded to newer computers allowing its personnel to continue to deliver combat power, while also saving the Department of the Navy over $800k and 2,500 personnel-hours.

The overall mission was accomplished, but some noticed how the temperatures of these computers felt unusually warm. In order to preserve and steward the

sustained technical capabilities of these computers, something additional was needed to maximize the time, money, and effort put forth in the tech refresh. Enter the team collaboration of NSWC PCD’s Codes E15 Hydrospace Laboratory and E42 Additive Manufacturing Lab (AML) and their innovation called the Laptop Lifter (aka the Tide Riser).

“Initial prototyping took place in late November, shortly after we received our Tech Refresh and observed the excessive heat produced with prolonged use. In an attempt to combat overheating by the new HP Laptops, we recognized that ventilation on the bottom-side was limited and boosting the rear of the laptop would increase airflow, accelerating cooling of the device,” said Hydrospace Laboratory Manager Dr. Christopher Musto. “Heat is typically detrimental to ab electronic’s lifetime. Reducing the heat retained in the rear of the system should extend lifetimes, thereby eliminating the need for early replacement of these laptops.”

The idea to design a prototype to lift the computer and maximize its internal cooling system was assigned to Jake Moody V, a mechanical engineer at the Hydrospace Laboratory. The design consists of two external pieces to provide maximum stability while minimizing size.

“There were a total of four iterations with each version evolving with slight

modifications to ultimately create the best solution,” said Moody. “Whether it was modifying the shape, adding ventilation holes or even adding a customized groove to lock them into place, each iteration made installing the lifters easier while keeping the same level of heat dissipation.”

The initial prototyping was accomplished using stereolithography 3-D printing at the Hydrospace Lab. Final identified prototype production was a collaboration between Chuck Self, NSWC PCD AML head, and the Hydrospace Laboratory team to reduce cost and production times.

“Ultimately, the final product is estimated to cost $2 per unit which offers a significant savings versus $6 - $8 per unit if produced externally,” said Self. “I can produce up to 240 units per day utilizing 10 or more Fused Deposition Modeling 3-D Printers.”

This team assembled to address a specific challenge to bring the best solution forward—Build a Team to Compete and Win, Transformed Digital Capability by using data to change how we innovate, ultimately improving NSWC PCD’s impact to Deliver Combat Power. This little detail will help accomplish NAVSEA mission priorities.

“The data we obtained using Forward-Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) technology measured a 15-20% reduction in tempera-ture from the hottest regions of the laptops,” said Musto. “Extending the life of essential computer systems is critical for the continued support of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers’ innovation ecosystem and that is something we are proud to have contributed to.”

left to right: Dr. Christopher Musto, Jake Moody, Chuck Self

By Jeremy Roman , NSWC PCD Public Affairs

U.S. Navy photos by Eddie Green and Jeremy Roman


NSWC PCD, HII REACH R&D AGREEMENT THROUGH UNMANNED THREAT DETECTION AND INTERVENTION SYSTEM

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—For the first time ever, Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) entitled Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV)-Based Threat Detection and Intervention System on February 20, 2022.

A CRADA, which is one of the tools that fall under Technology Transfer (T2), occurs between one or more federal laboratories and one or more non-federal parties where the federal lab can commit resources such as personnel, facilities, equipment, intel-lectual property, or other resources—but not funds—to the non-federal party. It allows the federal government to license technologies to private industry, academia, and state and local government, while also allowing the CRADA partner to provide funds to the federal lab.

“Allowing private industry to license federal technologies is good stewardship of taxpayer money and increases development of commercial technologies, which supports the national defense and economy,” said NSWC PCD Technology Transfer Manager Paige George. “The benefit to the partner is access to federal resources, which could lead to future partnerships/projects/first-come-first-serve access to the technology portfolio, relationships, etc. The benefit to the government is agility, because the time and cost it takes for the government to take a program from start to finish in most cases is much more expensive and time consuming than having a company come in and license a technology and manufacture on a large scale.”

The U.S. Navy technology in this cooper-ative agreement is called “Threat Tracker,” which is an autonomous threat detection system developed by a small team of engineers and scientists within NSWC PCD’s

Coastal and Maritime Security branch. Threat Tracker is an autonomous, multi-platform threat detection system that uses radar and sensor technologies coupled with video analytics and machine learning algorithms to detect, track, and classify potential threats. This system will be integrated with HII’s advanced unmanned surface vehicle to provide a fully autonomous USV escort capable of detecting and stopping a wide variety of threats.

“What I enjoy most about the CRADA, is being able to use assets that my R&D [research and development] budget would otherwise never have access to,” said Jeremy Johnson, Threat Tracker project manager. “The CRADA allows Threat Tracker to not only leverage the latest and greatest autonomous platforms, but also provide the opportunity to rapidly integrate our system onto the USV, which will help us to demonstrate how Threat Tracker will be utilized in the future of the fleet. This combining of resources enhances the R&D efforts and capabilities of our system for a faster transition to the warfighter.”

HII echoes similar sentiment.“One of the reasons HII has invested in

USV autonomous and artificial intelligence technology is to support the Navy’s distrib-uted maritime operations,” said Senior Director of Technology at HII’s Unmanned Systems Business Group, Brian McKeon. “We’re excited to collaborate with NSWC PCD to further enhance Threat Tracker by merging the capabilities of both organizations.”

“At NSWC PCD, we are committed to ensure every effort here results in warfighting dominance in the littoral battlespace, as well as to responsibly steward every resource we have been trusted with,” said Daniel Kucik, NSWC PCD Littoral and Mine Warfare Unmanned Systems director. “Maximizing the partner-ships and collaborating together in these

types of agreements allow us to achieve both of these goals.”

The Threat Tracker system has been assigned a U.S. Navy case number meaning it is on the road to earning a patent, but no patent license agreement has been developed as of yet.

“One of the goals for a CRADA is to license a federal technology to the non-fed-eral partner, but that doesn’t happen in all cases. Sometimes we just share equipment, personnel or other resources with a partner,” George said. “Ensuring every T2 agreement is within lawful bounds while maximizing efforts, these partnerships are an excellent way to collaborate with the private sector, as well as provide opportu-nities to license Navy technology!”

By Jeremy Roman , NSWC PCD Public Affairs

Threat Tracker is an autonomous threat detection system developed by a small team of engineers and scientists within NSWC PCD’s Coastal and Maritime Security branch. This autonomous, multi-platform threat detection system uses radar and sensor technologies cou-pled with video analytics and machine learning algorithms to detect, track, and classify potential threats. The system will be integrated with HII’s advanced unmanned surface vehicle to provide a fully autonomous USV escort capable of detecting and stopping a wide variety of threats. (U.S. Navy graphic)

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Proteus unmanned surface vessel (USV) used for testing and development of autonomy capabilities debuts on May 2021. The 27-foot Proteus USV was outfitted with Sea Machines Robotics’ SM300 autonomy system and completed a successful demon-stration on Friday, May 14 off the coast of Panama City, Fla. (courtesy photo)


NSWC PCD PROPELS SUPERVISORY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTBy Cierra Burch, NSWC PCD Public Affairs

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - It has been five years since Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) hosted the first in-person Propel Launch course in 2017. Now, NSWC PCD recently concluded virtually hosting newly appointed supervisors for five days of leadership development, culminating in graduation on the final day.

The Propel Launch course is a manda-tory training event where supervisors gain useful tools to help them in their new roles, while sharpening the existing tools in their tool kits to better lead their teams. NSWC PCD hosted 26 supervisors across nine Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) activities, including Warfare Center divisions, February 28 to March 4.

NAVSEA created the 40-hour course to ensure supervisors have a path to success. Through subject matter experts, this course teaches an approach that focuses on understanding supervisory responsi-bilities, practicing interpersonal skills, and knowing appropriate paths for situationally specific human resources support. It also accomplishes one of NAVSEA’s priorities — to Build a Team to Compete and Win

— which emphasizes how critical leader-ship development is to strengthening a collaborative culture.

One of the many topics presented is equal employment opportunity (EEO). Monica Queen, NSWC PCD’s EEO diversity and inclusion (ED&I) deputy director, said the topic plays a significant role in super-visory training.

“The goal of the ED&I presentation is to provide adequate and sufficient knowledge of EEO and Diversity and Inclusion programs and processes to new supervisors,” says Queen. “The ED&I office wants to ensure supervisors have all the resources available to allow the supervisor to manage fairly, equally, and be inclusive. This enables the supervisor to foster a positive working environment for all.”

Roland Deale, one of six participants from NSWC PCD and the workforce development director, states this training is invaluable.

“This course goes into great detail explain- ing the role of the supervisor and how to perform some of the many respon-sibilities required from a supervisor,” Deale says. “This course is invaluable and even

provides a student guide for reference after the course is over.”

“Much of Propel Launch is about shifting mindsets from a focus on the individual to focus on the team,” Propel Leadership Continuum Program Manager Joseph Michalak points out. “In discussions about setting culture, we highlight that supervi-sors should strive for an ideal culture by checking their own behavior and becoming more intentional.”

NSWC PCD Commanding Officer, Capt. David Back, added that courses, such as Propel provide critical leadership training to rising members of the NSWC PCD team, equipping them for their next challenges.

“The impact of this course goes outside of our supervisors,” states Back. “Providing this opportunity for supervisors enables increased involvement and implementation of quality communication and management practices that boost personnel engagement and create a safe, enjoyable, and inclusive work environment that our personnel want to invest their careers in.”

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WOMEN OF THE WARFARE CENTERS EVENT CELEBRATES CONTRIBUTIONS

By Jeremy Roman, NSWC PCD Public Affairs

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) hosted the Joint Warfare Center’s Women’s History Month Observance event, March 24.

Entitled ‘Women of the Warfare Centers’, this highlight featured the significant contri-butions made by women in various roles such as scientists, engineers, training special-ists, administrative specialists, and human resources throughout the organization.

Lauren Sikes, NSWC PCD Equal Employ-ment Opportunity and Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) specialist explains what went into this event’s success.

“We wanted to commemorate and encourage the observance and celebration of the essential roles of women within the ten Warfare Centers by showing how they contribute to the Naval Sea System Command’s (NAVSEA) Warfare Center Strategic Plan [which consists of five strategic goals and five foundational values],” said Sikes. “Each Warfare Center was assigned either a strategic goal or foundational value, nominated one woman who embodied that respective goal or value, and were encour-aged to select their nominee from any level within their organization.”

During the virtual event, Dr. Brett Seidle, SES, executive director of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers, discussed the importance women have within the Warfare Centers.

“Events like these are important, because it allows us to recognize the women throughout all the Warfare Centers, along with the contributions they have made,” said Sikes. “I hope people walked away from our event with a sense of pride and appreciation. We are One Team and we are all in charge of how we empower and inspire each other, whether it is knowingly or unknowingly. Bringing awareness and education to the command about Women’s History Month and how the women impact our very own Warfare Centers made this a successful event.”

Monica Queen, Deputy Director of ED&I at NSWC PCD, said the united Women of the Warfare Centers event enabled each Division to demonstrate and recognize those who exemplify and embrace the NAVSEA Warfare Centers Strategic Plan in everything we do in support of our nation’s warfighter.

“What better way to demonstrate the strategic plan in action than by recognizing ten women from across the ten NAVSEA Warfare Centers who emulate one strategic goal and one foundational value per Division,” said Queen. “Bringing together women from a variety of geographic locations, backgrounds, careers, and years of service not only show diversity of our workforce, but shows the inclusion of the One Team Warfare Center.”

Capt. David Back, NSWC PCD command-ing officer, said Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture, and society.

“We honor our women from all levels in our community – both military and civilian – for their significant contributions towards protecting the United States and embodying the Department of Defense’s values that unite us all as One Team,” said Back.

Every year, each Warfare Center is assigned to a certain month and charged with hosting an observance as a Joint Warfare Center event in collaboration with the other Warfare Centers. Sikes explained why it was an honor for NSWC PCD to host Women’s History Month.

“Women’s History Month seeks to give credit where credit is due and this event specifically recognizes the women who have impacted our warfighters by embodying the qualities of our strategic plan in so many different ways,” she said. “This event is important to me personally, because the Women of the Warfare Centers are also wives, mothers, sisters, friends and so much more. We get to lift up these amazing women and let them know their contribu-tions to the workforce and their Command are not going unnoticed. We celebrate every One Team woman.”

U.S. Navy graphic by Cathy Layton


PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Vice Adm. Bill Galinis met with Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Sailors and civilians to see firsthand how the Navy laboratory achieves its mission during his visit, March 30.

NSWC PCD researches, develops, tests and evaluates capabilities in core mission areas of mine warfare, diving and life support, subsea and seabed warfare, naval special warfare and amphibious and expeditionary warfare in order to ensure Warfighting Dominance in the Littoral Battlespace.

“In an era of great power competition, we need to deliver real combat capability to the Fleet and that’s exactly what the NSWC Panama City Division is doing on a number of different fronts,” said Galinis. “The service and capabilities this division provides to our Sailors and Marines is materially expanding the advantage that our Navy has against our adversaries.”

During the visit, Galinis visited the Ship to Shore Connector, the Navy’s next gener-ation hovercraft, and learned more about

the System Integration Lab whose focus is software development, test, and delivery to the Fleet.

Galinis, whose sea duty assignments include Engineer Officer on board USS Roark (FF 1053) and Damage Control Assistant on board USS Vreeland (FF 1068), also experi-enced Panama City’s reputation as the home of military diving through presenta-tions of diving systems NSWC PCD develops and supports for Naval Special Warfare, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Specialized Research Diving Detachment, Special Operations Command, and Navy Diving. In addition, presenters demonstrated NSWC PCD’s technical capabilities in life support systems such as damage control personnel protective equipment, special warfare support, such as the SEAL Delivery Vehicle, and MK-18 unmanned underwater vehicle.

“It is always an honor and a privilege to show off the outstanding work of our great Navy lab, demonstrating our technical expertise in the littoral battlespace in support of the warfighters of today and tomorrow,” said Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD technical director.

His final stop was the NSWC PCD Dive Locker, where he met with their ten-person dive team, including the Sailor of the year Navy Diver First Class (ND1) Cody Levins and Junior Sailor of the year Hospital Corpsman Second Class (HM2) Luis Martinez. Senior Enlisted Leader and Master Diver Master Chief (NDCM) Jay Cox briefed Galinis on the type of diving conducted at the lab before Galinis spoke to the Sailors and reinforced NAVSEA’s mission and NSWC PCD’s role in military diving.

NSWC PCD Commanding Officer Capt. David Back said, “I was very happy to be able to host VADM Galinis and show some of our amazing people working to deliver and support platforms and systems for the fleet sailors and marines that will need them. I have high hopes that he will be able to return and see more.”

This was Vice Admiral Galinis’ first official visit to the Navy lab since he assumed command as the 45th Commander of NAVSEA, June 2020.

NSWC PANAMA

CITY DIVISION

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COMMANDER

Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD Technical Director (left), and Capt. David Back,

NSWC PCD Commanding Officer (right) welcome Commander of Naval Sea

Systems Command (NAVSEA), Vice Adm. Bill Galinis.

Galinis experienced Panama City’s reputation as the home of military

diving through presentations of diving systems NSWC PCD develops and

supports for Naval Special Warfare, Explosive Ordnance Disposal,

Specialized Research Diving Detachment, Special Operations

Command, and Navy Diving.

Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Vice Adm. Bill Galinis (left) greets NSWC PCD’s 2021 Sailor of the Year Navy Diver First Class (ND1) Cody Levins (right) during his NSWC PCD visit, March 30. Capt. David Back, NSWC PCD com-manding officer, said Levins’ efforts directly support mission critical NAVSEA projects, including the Q-20C towed minehunting sonar, Seal Delivery Vehicle operations, and MK18 MOD 2 Kingfish target identification.

By Capt. Allison Burns NSWC PCD Public Affairs



The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Centers’ charge is to deliver readiness, capability and capacity by Innovating for the Fleet after Next, Building an Affordable Fleet for Tomorrow, and Sustaining the Fleet of Today.

The warfare center’s 10 Division – One Team mindset is focused on the mission success of the fleet and the warfighter. One of the ways this is accomplished is by providing effective Logistics – i.e, support for Fleet systems that are operated and maintained by the warfighter.

The Warfare Center Logistics Community of Practice (WFC Log CoP) recently came together as Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) hosted the in-person meeting, April 5-7.

Each warfare center previously rotated to host this event, but due to the health climate, this was the first in-person WFC Log CoP in two and a half years (September 2019).

Peter Halvorson, Lifecycle Logistics Competency Lead & E50 Deputy Division Head for NSWC PCD, explained why the Florida panhandle became the restarting line.

“Panama City last hosted this event in February 2016 and since [2019’s face-to-face] we’ve had a lot of turnover in each activity’s membership. As one of the group’s elder statesmen, if you will, it just seemed to make sense to help kick it off again by hosting this face-to-face event,” Halvorson said. “Although the Logistics CoP meets monthly via Microsoft Teams, there’s just so much more to learn and share when you’re gathered together as a team and able to have real-time conversations and

interact without the (oftentimes) inhibiting stiltedness of technology.”

The goal of this event was to bring together the Logistics leadership from each warfare center to share best practices, lessons learned, and to collaborate on ways to improve the Logistics competency as a whole across the One Team enterprise, Halvorson added.

Among many key topics, the group discussed Integrated Product Support Reviews, Battle Damage Assessments, Tabletop Exercises (TTxs), and the current state of the industrial supply base. Also, each participating activity contributed a “Getting to Know You” brief so that fellow attendees could learn about each other’s Logistics organizations, their respective capabilities, and any unique logistics-related initiatives that might have value or benefit to the other warfare centers.

“In addition to the formal presentations, there is a lot to be learned from each other via the side bar conversations during breaks, the group lunches, social events, and other casual interactions where you get a chance to learn so much about your peers at the other warfare centers,” said Halvorson. “This particular face-to-face was also geared towards providing a chance for everyone to network and learn who the new faces are within the community. Most of us have only seen each other virtually, or listened via conference calls, but haven’t met or personally interacted with each other.”

The visit also included a tour of several NSWC PCD activities to include the Landing Craft Air Cushion facility, SEAL Delivery

Vehicle/MK 18 lab, Mine Countermeasures /Littoral Combat Ship MCM lab, and the Hydrospace lab.

“The tour was informationally packed…led by their technical subject matter experts (SME) and it resulted in our group learning a lot about NSWC Panama City,” said Capt. Charles Tellis NAVSEA Warfare Center Headquarters Chief Logistician. “The technical SMEs were appreciated, as it facili-tated some very good discussion. The group appreciated the tour and discussions with the Panama City team.”

Halvorson echoed Tellis’ sentiment and said the collaborative environment established and strengthened a sense of community.

“I wanted our attendees to walk away with a sense of community within the competency, and an overall willingness to work together and help each other grow and further Life Cycle Logistics as a functional area. One Team!” said Halvorson. “Now that we’ve re-started the face-to-face meetings with this one in Panama City, they should resume on an every six month schedule. Our next one is tentatively scheduled for later this fall.”

The WFC Log CoP provides a forum for senior logisticians, representing each of the warfare centers, to promote and support lifecycle logistics strategic plan, support on-time delivery of ships and submarines, enable a culture of affordability and strengthen the warfare center team by providing the backbone to build and shape a next-generation product support and logistics workforce.

U.S. Navy photo by Eddie Green

ONE TEAM WARFARE CENTER LOGISTICS COMMUNITY MEETING EMPHASIZES CONNECTION

left to right: Joshua Erlien (NSWC Crane), Michael Carothers (Naval Sea Logistics Center), Brian Banks (NSWC Crane), Tiffany German (NSWC Crane), Robert Fried (NSWC IHD, Picatinny Det), Michele Burk (NUWC Keyport), Bill Carlson (NUWC Keyport, DTD), Regina Dansbee (NUWC Keyport), Caeleigh Villarreal (NUWC Keyport), Capt. Charles Tellis (NSWC HQ), Tim Carpenter (NSWC Port Hueneme), Cal Bostick (NSWC IHD, Picatinny Det), Amber Haugh (NSWC Port Hueneme), Jean Nelson (NSWC IHD), Robert Thomas (NSWC IHD, Picatinny Det), Peter Halvorson (NSWC PCD, E50)

By Jeremy Roman NSWC PCD Public Affairs


OUT & ABOUTU.S. Navy photo

Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD Technical Director, served in an acting role as Acting Executive Director of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Centers for the month of April 2022.

Adair had the honor of joining Commander, NAVSEA Warfare Centers, Rear Adm. Kevin Byrne and Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division leadership to cut the ribbon for the command’s newly acquired Olney Support Center in Gaithersburg, Md., on April 19.

LEADERSHIP WRAPS UP SPRING 2022 STRATEGIC ONSITE

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) leadership team met February 24-25 to hold a Strategy Onsite. The purpose this meeting is to under-stand the Technical Director’s vision for NSWC PCD’s technical workload, and begin discussing business planning elements required to achieve the Technical Director’s vision. Additionally, the team continued the focus on people with a brief on the EEO, Diversity, and Inclusion State of the Agency.



U.S. Navy photo by Mike DeLuise

Tyler Hoover and Zach Garcia present Threat Tracker to Dr. Brett Seidle, NAVSEA Warfare Centers Executive Director, at the 2022 Sea Air Space Expo.

We were PCD proud to have the Bay County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Bay class visit us, April 6!

Leadership Bay prepares Bay County residents to assume the demands of leadership in their community. The Leadership Bay Class is made up of people from all parts of our community. One of the strengths of the program is that partici-pants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas with other emerging leaders.

During their visit, the leaders were able to visit tenants on base, including NSWC Panama City Division, to learn about our mission areas, our support functions and the ways in which we serve the Navy, the Nation & the community.

BAY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LEADERSHIP BAY CLASS


THREAT TRACKER

AT SEA AIR SPACE EXPO


March 2, several Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) professionals shared their time and talents judging the Bay District Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Fair at Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Fla. Students from 6th grade through 12th grade presented their inventions to a group of judges, tacking real world problems and developing solutions. Some students even had prototypes to demonstrate their capabilities. Capt. David Back, NSWC PCD commanding officer, served as a guest judge for the event. Additionally, a big thank you to other guest judges from the command: Neil Matson, Andrew Matson, Gretchen Riviera, Sunny Barton, and Dennis Gallagher. Your time and talents are making a difference in our community and on our future workforce!

INVENTION CONVENTION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FAIR

INVENTION CONVENTION

Nineteen business and technical professionals Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) were PCD proud to support the University Academy Talent Showcase April 11. 75 students learned about careers in fields such as: Machine Learning, Electro-Optics, Mission Analysis, Automation, Cybersecurity, Public Affairs, Visual Information, Information Technology, Security, Human Resources & Accounting.

The showcase demonstrates the diversity of career paths available in our own backyard at the Navy Lab in Panama City.

STEM OUTREACHU.S. Navy photos by Ronnie Newsome


COMPTROLLERDormant Account Review (DAR) Lead

Adrione Canada WORKS WITH STAKEHOLDERS TO: DAR Lead; Code 01 liaison • Ensure accurate and timely review of the Office of Budget (FMB)

DAR-Q samples. • Reduce overall population of dormant balances, thereby

decreasing the FMB quarterly samples. • Create “Golden Packages” for DAR-Q samples that require key

supporting documents (KSDs).• Identify root causes of dormant balances and recommend process

changes to proactively track and mitigate future dormant balances. • Coordinate and manage the transition NSWC PCD stakeholders

to the DAR ADVANA Tool. • Identify DAR training needs, then develope and conduct

training, as required. • Schedule and conduct DAR meetings as required.

Beginning Q1 FY20, the Triannual Re-view was replaced by the Dormant Ac-count Review Quarterly (DAR-Q), which improves the Department of Defense (DoD) ability to execute all available appropriations before expiration, en-sures remaining open obligations are valid, and supports accurate financial and budgetary reporting.

PURPOSE

OBJECTIVE

STAKEHOLDERS

REV

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PE

RIO

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Track the dormancy and/or validity of the DoD Components obligations and unfilled customer orders (UFCO), ensuring proper actions are being taken to correct and/or expedite the timely execution and full utilization of appropriated funds.

Increase each Component’s ability to use available appropri-ations before they expire and ensure remaining open obliga-tions are valid and liquidated before the cancellation of the appropriation, which will enable increased mission readiness and buying power for the DoD.

Includes, but not limited to:Funds Holders (Resource Managers), ERP Extended Business Office (EBO) personnel, Property Management personnel, Accountants (Financial Mangers), Budget Analysts, Program Managers, Acquisition/Logistics representatives, Contracting Officers, and DCAA/DCMA.

Quarter Dormancy Period DAR-Q Review Period1 October 1 through December 31 January through March2 January 1 through March 31 April through June3 April 1 through June 30 July through September4 July 1 through September 30 October through December

The driving force behind the DAR Lead position is the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (USD(C)) commitment to effective stewardship of taxpayer dollars through improved execution of budgetary resources, con-tinuous improvement efforts, matura-tion of internal controls, and enabling senior leadership to provide oversight and defend future budgets.


Roland DealeWorkforce Development Director

Division 101Human Resources

Code 1016Workforce Development

What does your branch do?

Why did you decide to work at NSWC PCD?

What do you do in your job? What is the impact?

What does your division do in support of NSWC PCD and the Navy?

How long have youworked at NSWC PCD?

We manage and host the initial Onboarding training class for all new hires. We provide a first look for all newcomers of the command and an overview of how things work here and what is expected of the new employees. We advertise and recruit employees for various training opportunities. We provide tuition assistance for employees that are enrolled in selective programs, as well as independent learn-ers that are taking college or technical courses related to their work. We also manage the on-site training courses for our employees that are determined by the Competency leads as essential to close any knowledge gaps in our workforce. We are the Program manager for DAWIA and also track all employee’s Continuous Learning Points as required by NAVSEA. We are responsible for tracking Mandatory training completions for all Divisions throughout the Fiscal Year in order to ensure we are in compliance with NAVSEA requirements.

I have been at NSWC PCD for a little over two years. I previously was employed for over a decade at the Center for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Diving as a Instructional Systems Designer.

I provide oversight on all of the many Workforce Development programs from Onboarding to Level 5 Leadership programs, such as NextGen and JLL. These programs provide invaluable training for our employees that directly translates to a more efficient, adaptive, and proficient workforce. In the end, these programs contribute to the success of the mission and widening the gap between our adversaries and our armed services.

The Human Resources (HR) Division (101) performs all Human Resource duties to include HR Policy, Planning & Analysis, Staffing, Recruiting, Labor and Employee Relations, and Workforce Development. The HR Division provides input to the Navy and NAVSEA for numerous data calls that affect not only programs at our command, but programs Navy wide.

It offered a chance for personal growth and upward mobility in the workforce.

DIVISION SPOTLIGHTCODE 10


Dates provided are due dates for completed package(s) to be received.Contact Cierra Burch at [email protected]

for nomination requirements, forms and questions.Upcoming awards are regularly updated on: https://wiki.navsea.navy.mil/display/PCD103/Awards

*Non-government agency award submissions now require approved public release documentation.

Award Winners For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) LEGO Volunteer of the Year

Mary Mouro

Upcoming Awards5/13

5/16

5/18

5/205/31

DoD Voluntary Protection Programs Achievement AwardsNaval Submarine League Distinguished Civilian AwardPhillip Heiler Award for Human Resources ExcellenceMarine Technology Society AwardNational Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Bronze MedalBlacks in Government (BIG) National Prestige AwardNational Medal of Science Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC)

Department of Defense Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education and Outreach Advocate of the QuarterDoN Agility Awards (Formerly SECNAV Innovation Awards)

Quarterly- Nov/Feb/May/Aug

Continuous

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6/076/15

International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) Professional AwardsUSN USMC Electromagnetic Spectrum Workforce Excellence AwardsNational BIG Military ServiceYounger Federal Lawyer AwardsSystem Safety Society AwardsFrank B. Rowlett Awards

MICROSOFT TEAMS in FLANKSPEED

Users can create or be part of mul-tiple Teams. This is a great way to work collaboratively with several built in tools. It is recommended there be a couple owners of each team to ensure continuity.

March - April 2022IT’s NEWS YOU CAN USE

Multiple channels (subsets of a team) can be created to help organize information. The entire team, or only a portion of one, can be given permissions for each channel.

FILES

PLANNER

IDEAS

OTHER TOOLS

WORD, EXCEL, OR POWER PT DOCUMENTS

Each team has 100 GB of file storage, which will allow project or organizational data to be shared with everyone on the team and not be stored in a single person’s OneDrive.

This tool allows for tasks to be created, assigned, and can be show in multiple views.

Space for team collaboration when brainstorming.

Calendar Wiki Page Chat

Can be added to the top menu to allow for easy access, viewing, or editing of the document for everyone on the team.


Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act

NSWC PCD

DAWIA

Mike Monroe, DAWIA Program Manager

850-230-7913

NSWC PCD PERSONNEL SECURITY

January - February 2022

The Personnel Security Adjudicative process is a determination that an individual is an acceptable security risk for access to classified information. The 13 Adjudicative Guidelines, A – M, of Security Executive Agent Directive 4 (SEAD 4) - National Security Adjudicative Guidelines, provide the concerns and conditions that are evaluated.

• Illegal use of a drug or use of a legal drug in a manner that deviates from approved medical direction

• Testing positive for illegal drug use and/or illegal drug possession, including cultivation, processing, manufacture, purchase, sale, distribution, or posses-sion of drug paraphernalia

• Diagnosis by a duly qualified medical professional (e.g., physician, clinical psychologist, or psychiatrist) of drug abuse or drug dependence

• Evaluation of drug abuse or drug dependence by a licensed clinical social worker who is a staff member of a recognized drug treatment program

• Failure to successfully complete a drug treatment program prescribed by a duly qualified medical professional

• Any illegal drug use after being granted a security clearance• Expressed intent to continue illegal drug use, or failure to clearly and con-

vincingly commit to discontinue drug use

Use of an illegal drug or misuse of a prescription drug can raise questions about an individual’s reliability, trustworthiness, and ability or willingness to comply with laws, rules, and regulations.

ADJUDICATIVE GUIDELINES

Examples of Conditions to be Evaluated:

Concern:

(PERSEC) BULLETIN

For more information, email [email protected]

All DAWIA legacy certification timelines (prior to 1 February 2022) have been reset to the 1 February 2022 date and respective grace periods.

ALL ACQUISITION WORKFORCE (AWF) MEMBERSWill remain certified and will be grandfathered over as required.To check if a completed course will be a predecessor course, go to: https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/courses.aspx

Continuous Learning Points Cycles will remain the same with the 80 CL point requirement in a 24 month cycle period. Dates do not reset.

The certification roadmap contains new course requirements and extended grace periods for our Functional Areas (Career Fields). Functional Area certification requirements can be found at: https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx

UPDATEAdditional FAQs can be found at https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/faq_catalog.aspx

https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/courses.aspx

https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx

https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/faq_catalog.aspx


SAFETYPrepared by: Patrick Beacom, NSWC PCD Safety Specialist

OFFICE SPACE MISHAPSMost of our Navy and Marine Corps safety effort focuses on operational safety or during our off-duty activities; we need to consider the hazards that surround us in the office as well. In the past year alone, over 100 office mishaps led to 460 lost work days and nearly 900 days of light duty. The lost work days equate to two and a half Sailor deployments or nearly 47 civilian pay periods.

CHAIR FAILS

TOP 3 MISHAPS

HITTING HEADS

LEADING FACTOR:HUMAN ERROR

IN JUDGMENT & INATTENTION

as equipment failures account for only 12% of total mishaps.

KEY TAKEAWAYSFOLLOW ALL APPLICABLE SAFETY STANDARDS

Safety culture is built upon communication, mutual trust, and shared perceptions of the importance of safety. Lead by example from any-where in your organization by remaining vigilant and safety-minded at all times.

We can become complacent about safety hazards. The respective Navy and Marine Corps Safety and Occupational Health Program manuals contain specific require-ments for formal safety inspections and annual self-assessments.

MAINTAIN A CULTURE OF SAFETY.

DO SAFETY INSPECTIONS & ASSESSMENTS.

• Chairs are not ladders• Lift with your legs• Keep aisles and exits clear• Unplug electrical power before

working on any office hardware.

LIFTING/MOVINGOBJECTS


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