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Established in 1919 on NAS North Island CA, Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) is the first aviation Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility established in the DoD making the command the birthplace of naval aviation maintenance. FRCSW provides world-class support to Navy and Marine Corps tactical, logistical and rotary wing aircraft and their components, by utilizing state-of-the-art management systems. To provide maintenance excellence where it’s most needed FRCSW maintains field sites at Naval Base Ventura County – Point Mugu, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, MCAS Miramar, NAS Fallon, NAS Lemoore, NAS China Lake in CA., MCAS Yuma, AZ., MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI., NAS Whidbey Island WA and AFB Cannon, NM. as well as in Okinawa and Iwakuni, Japan.

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Located 150 miles north of Los Angeles, the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, covers over a million acres of Southern California’s Mojave Desert. Founded in 1943, this vast, sparsely populated desert, with near-perfect flying weather year-round and practically unlimited visibility, proves an ideal location not only for test and evaluation (T&E) activities, but also for a complete research and development (R&D) establishment as well.

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Point Mugu and China Lake, CA are the primary locations of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. Point Mugu manages the Point Mugu Sea Range and serves as the Navy’s center of electronic warfare expertise. There are currently 620 active duty military, 4,166 civilian employees and 1,734 contractors employees that work onboard the installation.

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Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC), based in Port Hueneme, CA, is the Navy’s principle research, development, test, and evaluation center for shore and near-shore facilities, underwater facilities, and expeditionary equipment. EXWC employs more than 450 scientists, engineers, and architects in specific programs such as cyber security and defense, water security and sustainability, environmental restoration and conservation, energy security and technology integration, undersea and waterfront facilities sustainment, and facilities sustainment.

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The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) optimizes the operational readiness and health of our armed forces by conducting research, development, testing, and evaluation to inform Department of Defense (DoD) policy. NHRC was designated the DoD Deployment Health Research Center in 1999 and conducts science that spans the spectrum from physical readiness to joint medical planning, to wounded warrior recovery and behavioral health interventions, all focusing on the health, readiness, and well-being of our nation’s military members and their families. We conduct research that is operationally relevant and driven by fleet requirements. NHRC is one of eight laboratories affiliated with the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, within the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

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The Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Pacific is the U.S. Navy’s research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for command, control and communication systems and ocean surveillance. NIWC Pacific provides information resources to support the joint warfighter in mission execution and force protection. It is headquartered in San Diego, CA, with other sites at Pearl Harbor, HI; Barrigada, Guam; Yokosuka, Japan; and Philadelphia, PA. The Center employs 4,300 civilian and military personnel, the majority are engineers, scientists and technicians developing technology to meet the Navy’s information requirements of the future and providing Fleet support to keep current information systems running.

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The Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) provides medical care in a family-centered care environment to the operational forces, their families, and to those who served their country in the past. There are approximately 250,000 people in San Diego County eligible to receive care at NMCSD, with nearly 100,000 enrolled. This care is provided by more than 6,200 military and civilian staff. To augment that staff and to expand the scope of services available to its patient population, Naval Medical Center San Diego has taken the lead in introducing many innovative partnership and resource sharing programs with civilian providers. The center has five medical mobilization teams including the hospital ship USNS Mercy whose personnel are drawn from the hospital staff. These teams deploy to the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia at various times during the year. It is the center’s mission to insure Sailors and Marines onboard those ships have access to quality medical care, if needed.

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The United States Naval Postgraduate School graduates approximately 800 students per year. Its student body includes officers of all five U.S. services and approximately 25 allied services as well as DoD civilians. The school also provides defense-focused graduate education, including classified studies and interdisciplinary research, to advance the operational effectiveness, technological leadership and warfighting advantage of the Naval service.

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NSWC Corona Division has served as the Navy’s independent assessment agent since 1964. With experience in gauging the Navy’s warfighting capability, NSWC Corona is positioned as a leader in NAVSEA data analytics. Utilizing networked data environments, data analytics and visualization, and measurement technology to bridge the Navy’s disparate data, Corona enables informed decision-making for the warfighter.   The Naval Sea Systems Command field activity provides transparency for warfighting readiness through data analytics and assessment, engineers the fleet’s Live-Virtual-Constructive training environment, and assures the accuracy of measurements as the engineering advisor for the Navy and Marine Corps metrology and calibration programs.

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NSWC PHD employs more than 2500 engineers, scientists, technicians, logisticians, and support personnel who provide America’s Naval surface fleet with integration, test and evaluation life-cycle engineering, and product support for today’s and tomorrow’s warfare systems. The command consists of three sites – Port Hueneme, Virginia Beach, and White Sands – and focuses on the future of naval technologies, ensuring America’s fleet receives optimal support.

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The Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL) provides research solutions to the most medically challenging platform in the Navy, the US Submarine. NSMRL serves the submarine fleet by taking the lead in undersea human factors, sensory sciences, and operational medicine, delivering timely evidenced-based healthcare solutions.

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The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) is responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history and heritage located at the historic Washington Navy Yard. The NHHC is composed of 42 facilities in 13 geographic locations including the Navy Department Library, 10 museums and 1 heritage center. The Navy oversees one of the largest collections of submerged cultural resources, which includes over 2,500 shipwrecks and 15,000 aircraft wrecks dispersed around the world. The UAB was established in 1993 to manage these sites and to advise the Department of the Navy on all matters related to the science of underwater archaeology and historic preservation as it pertains to military ship and aircraft wreck sites.

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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the Department of the Navy‘s corporate laboratory, and it reports to the Chief of Naval Research. As the corporate laboratory of the Navy, NRL is the principal in-house component in the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) effort to meet its science and technology responsibilities. Through NRL, the Navy has direct ties with sources of fundamental ideas in industry and the academic community throughout the world and provides an effective coupling point to the R&D chain for ONR. NRL headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., with major field sites on Tilghman Island, MD, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, MD, Stennis Space Center, MS, and Monterey, CA.

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The U.S. Naval Observatory determines the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, stars and other celestial objects, providing astronomical data; determining precise time; measuring the Earth’s rotation; and maintaining the Master Clock for the United States. Founded in 1830 as the Depot of Charts and Instruments, the Naval Observatory is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the country. USNO continues to be responsive to the fleet, DoD, and national needs through provision of applied astrometry and timing products and services.

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Established in 1940, the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) is one of eight Fleet Readiness Centers that performs comprehensive maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), operations and modification of assigned aircraft platforms, engines, weapons, systems, components and accessories. The current workload at FRCSE includes phased and planned maintenance and repairs, conversion, modernization, integrated maintenance and in-service repairs. The Division is principally located in a modern, 16,500 square-foot environmental laboratory that is equipped with sophisticated analytical equipment needed to solve aircraft related materials problems, develop process procedures and discover steps for improvement. Services range from basic materials identification to complex material determination and failure analysis.

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Formed in 1941 as the nation’s first military simulation systems developer, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) is the Navy’s source for a full range of innovative products and services that provide complete training solutions. This includes research and development in human performance, learning, advanced technologies through training system acquisition and life cycle support. NAWCTSD’s research mission is to plan and perform a full range of directed Research and Development (R&D) in support of naval training systems for all warfare areas and platforms, to maintain an expanding naval-critical technology base, and to transition
research results to the Fleet and other customers.

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NSWC PCD conducts research, development, test and evaluation, and in-service support in mine warfare, Naval special warfare, diving and life support, and amphibious and expeditionary maneuver warfare systems, as well as other missions in the Littoral Battlespace. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division, situated on 648 acres on the western shore of St. Andrew’s Bay in Panama City, FL, is a major research, development, test and evaluation laboratory with over 800 scientists and engineers.

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The Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) is the Navy and Marine Corps center of expertise for operational entomology. We develop and evaluate novel products and application technologies to better protect deployed forces from blood feeding insects and other arthropods that transmit human diseases. NECE provides force health protection through operational disease vector surveillance, control and training to enhance Navy and Marine Corps mission readiness.

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Established in 1908, the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF is the largest comprehensive fleet repair and maintenance facility located on 148 acres, over 36 miles of shoreline, and employs approximately 5,800 civilian employees and 500 active duty military personnel to support the maintenance and modernization of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. PHNSY & IMF’s strategic location is a vital waypoint and defensive outpost between the U.S. mainland and the rest of the Asia Pacific region, and thereby performs a vital role in national defense by executing maintenance on submarines and aircraft carriers in order to provide combat-ready ships to the fleet.

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NSWC Crane provides acquisition engineering, in-service engineering and technical support for sensors, electronics, electronic warfare and special warfare weapons. NSWC Crane also works to apply component and system-level product and industrial engineering to surface sensors, strategic systems, special warfare devices and electronic warfare systems, as well as to execute other responsibilities assigned by the Commander, Naval Surface Warfare Center. Over 2500 scientists, engineers, and technicians help support their broad customer base that includes the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, United States Special Operations Command, Coast Guard, NASA, and many other military, civilian, and foreign military organizations.

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s primary mission is the overhaul, repair and modernization of Los Angeles and Virginia-class submarines. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard provides the U.S. Navy’s nuclear powered submarine fleet with quality overhaul work in a safe, timely and affordable manner. This includes a full spectrum of in-house support, from engineering services and production shops, to unique capabilities and facilities, to off-site support–all of which serves the multifaceted assortment of fleet requirements.

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Established in 1993, Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWCADPAX) hosts unique R&D aircraft systems laboratories and test facilities, serving the needs of the U.S. Navy, as well as other services, federal agencies, foreign customers, and commercial entities. The complex at Patuxent River, MD (NAVAIRWARCENACDIV) includes research and engineering disciplines of systems engineering, air vehicles, propulsion, avionics, crew systems, and test and evaluation. Patuxent River employs 9,800 civilian employees, 5,700 contractors and 2,400 active duty military personnel. The Key West, FL detachment provides testing of developmental anti-submarine warfare hardware in the open ocean environment.

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The Naval Medical Research Center supports over 12 naval research laboratories throughout the U.S. and around the world in their efforts to develop and share valuable innovations. Since 1999, the center’s portfolio has expanded to over 150 patents and applications that cover a wide range of technologies. Fields of research from the biomedical, environmental, dental, aerospace, and biological warfare defense industries focus on finding solutions to both conventional and battlefield medical problems.

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The Carderock Division consists of approximately 2,000 scientists, engineers and support personnel working in more than 40 disciplines ranging from fundamental science to applied/in-service engineering in maritime technology. Headquartered in West Bethesda, MD, the division provides cradle-to-grave support for its technical products over a wide range of scientific areas related to surface and undersea platforms. This includes all technical aspects of improving the performance of ships, submarines, military watercraft, and unmanned vehicles, as well as research for military logistics systems.

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Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) is the Department of Defense’s (DOD) largest full-spectrum energetics facility and the Navy’s energetic enterprise leader. NSWC IHD employs a primarily Maryland-based workforce of nearly 2,700 and has two official detachments and six off-site locations, including sites in Picatinny, New Jersey; McAlester, Oklahoma; Rock Island, Illinois; and Ogden, Utah; in addition to employees stationed throughout the world. The command’s capabilities address all aspects of the energetics technical discipline including: basic research, applied technology, technology demonstration and prototyping, engineering development, acquisition, low-rate production, in-service engineering/mishaps, failure investigations, surveillance, EOD technology/information and demilitarization.

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MARFORCYBER’s primary objective is to plan, coordinate, integrate, synchronize and conduct activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to the adversary.

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The Naval Academy was founded in 1845 in Annapolis, MD. The academy gives young men and women the up-to-date academic and professional training needed to be effective naval and marine officers in their assignments after graduation. The Naval Academy prepares midshipmen to become naval and marine corps officers in a four year academic and professional program with a technical core curriculum. The 175 technical Ph.D. faculty strive to develop as teachers and scholars through research in their fields.

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The Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility (NCTRF), located in Natick, MA, provides the US Navy Sailor with advanced technological solutions to their clothing and equipment needs. NCTRF’s team of textile technologists, clothing designers, scientists and engineers design and develop dress uniforms, working uniforms, and protective clothing worn by Navy personnel. The team conducts research, development, test and evaluation, and engineering support of materials and clothing systems to provide the Sailor with advanced ensembles that protect against threats such as fire and steam, heat and cold stress, ballistic impact, water immersion, and chemical agents.

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The Commander, Naval Meteorological and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) defines and applies the physical environment, from the bottom of the ocean to the stars, to ensure that the U.S. Navy has the freedom of action to deter aggression, maintain freedom of the seas and win wars. With a staff of 1500 personnel, CNMOC is the Department of Defense’s authoritative source for characterization, and applying data, of the physical battlespace into winning decisions.

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Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCADLKE) Lakehurst specializes in Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment (ALRE) and Naval Aviation Support Equipment (SE). It is part of the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) and is located on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) in central New Jersey. As the Navy’s lead engineering support activity for ALRE and SE, NAWCAD Lakehurst conducts programs of acquisition management, technology development, systems integration, engineering, rapid prototyping / manufacturing, developmental evaluation and verification, fleet engineering support and integrated logistics support management. NAWCAD Lakehurst is responsible for maintaining fleet support and infusing modern technology across the entire spectrum of equipment needed to launch, land and maintain aircraft from ships at sea and austere expeditionary airfields.

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Since 1943, Fleet Readiness Center East located in Cherry Point, North Carolina, provides maintenance, engineering and logistics support for Navy and Marine Corps aviation, as well as other armed services, federal agencies and foreign governments They maintain and operate facilities for and perform a complete range of depot level rework operations on designated weapon systems, accessories, and equipment; manufacture parts and assemblies as required; provide engineering services in the development of changes of hardware design; furnish technical services on aircraft maintenance and logistic problems; and perform, upon specific request or assignment, other levels of aircraft maintenance. The command also has detachments at MCAS New River, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina; Hurlburt Field, Florida; and at the Global TransPark in Kinston, North Carolina.

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The Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-Dayton) mission is to protect and enhance the readiness, performance, and survivability of naval and joint warfighters by conducting operationally relevant environmental health effects, toxicology, and aerospace medical research. Located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, it is one of the eight laboratories within the Department of Defense’s Navy Medicine Research & Development Enterprise. As a subordinate command to Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), NAMRU-Dayton is home of the Environmental Health Effects Laboratory (EHEL) and the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL).

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Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division provides the Navy’s primary technical expertise and facilities for both naval machinery research and development and naval machinery lifecycle engineering. NSWCPD is responsible for the machinery systems core equity of the Ship and Ship Systems Product Area for the United States Navy and serves as a central point for academia and industry to join forces with Navy technical experts to develop solutions to needs in naval machinery. Consistent with its core equity responsibility, NSWCPD fulfills key functions including research, design, development, shipboard and land-based test and evaluation, acquisition support, in-service engineering, Fleet engineering, integrated logistics support and concepts and overall life cycle engineering.

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NUWC Division Newport provides the technical foundation that enables the research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace. NUWC Division Newport is responsible, cradle to grave, for all aspects of systems under its charter, and is engaged in efforts ranging from participation in fundamental research to the support of evolving operational capabilities in the U.S. Navy fleet. With headquarters in Rhode Island, NUWC Division Newport operates detachments at West Palm Beach, FL, and Andros Island in the Bahamas. Remote test facilities are located at Seneca Lake and Fisher’s Island in New York, and Dodge Pond, CT.

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The Naval War College was established in 1884 as an advanced course of professional study for naval officers, and continues to educate and develop leaders at specific stages in their careers from all services, U.S. government agencies and departments, and international navies.

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Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic provides systems engineering and acquisition to deliver information warfare capabilities to the naval, joint and national warfighter through the acquisition, development, integration, production, test, deployment and sustainment of interoperable command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, cyber and information technology capabilities.

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Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio (NAMRU-SA) is located on the San Antonio Military Medical Center campus, Joint Base Fort Sam Houston, Texas and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland. NAMRU-SA’s mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of Department of Defense personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations.

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Deputy Commandant for Information develops and supervises plans, policies, and strategy for operating in the Information Environment and identifies requirements in doctrine, manpower, training, education, and equipment in order to support Marine Air Ground Task Force operations in the Information Environment. In support of the Commandant of the Marine Corps and his Title 10 responsibilities as a service chief, the Deputy Commandant for Information serves as the principal advisor on all Information Environment matters and serves as the principal spokesperson on Marine Corps Information Environment programs, requirements, and strategy throughout the Department of the Navy and the Department of Defense.

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Marine Corps Systems Command is the acquisition command of the Marine Corps responsible for exercising contracting and technical authority for all Marine Corps ground weapon and information technology programs. The diverse team of Marines, Sailors, civilians and contractor support personnel are united by a common purpose: to equip and sustain Marine forces with the most capable and cost-effective systems for current and future expeditionary and crisis-response operations.

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The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory generates and examines threat-informed, operating concepts and capabilities and provides analytically-supported recommendations to inform subsequent force design and development activities.

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Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth is the Navy’s first and oldest continuously operating hospital with 4,300 staff members and more than 420,000 active duty members, family members and retirees in their care. NMCP is a top-tier, full-spectrum, tertiary-care medical center recognized nationally for superior clinical processes and quality patient-care outcomes with highly trained professionals, recognized as leaders in their field, and define the standards of care, training, and readiness for our nation.

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The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) is a shore command of the U.S. Navy under the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), and performs cutting-edge research and development and is the leader in warfare systems design and integration, ensuring warfare systems superiority for the warfighter. The division is headquartered at Dahlgren, VA, and provides Fleet support at the NSWC Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity, in Virginia Beach, VA, overlooking the Virginia Capes Fleet Operations Area.

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Navy Warfare Development Command develops and integrates innovative solutions to complex naval warfare challenges to enhance current and future warfighting capabilities. NWDC works to innovate, improve capabilities, develop courses of action, train the fleet, enhance tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), analyze operations, and foster cross-domain integration.

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Norfolk Naval Shipyard repairs, modernizes and inactivates Navy’s warships and training platforms.

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The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport, WA, provides technical leadership, engineering expertise, and unique facility complexes that serve to ensure sustainment of undersea warfare (USW) superiority for the United States. As one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport’s mission is focused on developing and applying advanced technical capabilities to test, evaluate, field, and maintain undersea warfare systems and related defense assets. Keyport has detachments in San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor and Ford Island, Hawaii; Hawthorne, Nevada; Nanoose, British Columbia, Canada; Guam and Japan.

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Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) provides the Navy with high quality, on-time maintenance, modernization, recycling and support. PSNS & IMF has permanent sites in Bremerton, Bangor, and Everett, Washington; San Diego, California; and Yokosuka, Japan.