20 January 2020 Pilots See Promising Results from Use of Cold Spray Technology FRC East recently hosted the first-ever U.S. trials for a new cold spray technology application and saw promising results. If approved, the new cold spray technology would help reduce turnaround times and decrease costs for repairs that have not been possible using existing, approved systems...
20 January 2020 Navy's Only Local Chapter of National Academy of Inventors Kicks Off New Year, New Decade of Innovation Many of the Navy's brightest inventors and innovators gathered for the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors' (NAI) first meeting of the year, Jan. 13 in San Diego...
18 January 2020 Recruit Training Command Grads Eligible for Nine College Credits Curriculum changes at Recruit Training Command (RTC) will provide boot camp graduates with more college credits and potentially save the Navy millions in tuition costs...
17 January 2020 Department of the Navy leaders Sign Guam Explosive Safety Submission Culminating over three years of negotiation, Department of the Navy leaders today signed an agreement to establish a disciplined process for the Commander, Joint Region Marianas (CJRM) to have the authority to implement prudent explosive safety principles on Guam. The agreement will...
16 January 2020 IWTC San Diego Sailor Develops Advancement Exam Preparation Pipeline In August 2019, Sailors from Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) San Diego launched an informal training pipeline designed to prepare its Sailors in the information systems technician (IT) rating for Navy-wide enlisted advancement examinations (NWAE) called IT University.
16 January 2020 Supporting the Mission by Supporting Your Career: Navy Counselor Assists Sailors Navigate Their Career Options Mission Diego Garcia: How One Navy Counselor is assisting Sailors navigate the ins and outs of their naval careers...
16 January 2020 Small Business Runway Extension Act Takes Effect - Good News for Small Business, NSWC Dahlgren Division NSWCDD officials anticipate positive impacts on the command in the wake of a Small Businesses Administration final rule to implement a 2018 act increasing the period of measuring small businesses' annual revenue from three to five years in the contract evaluation process...
15 January 2020 Weather Forecasting Team Tracks, Predicts 'Fire-Cloud' Phenomenon Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory advanced their ongoing work to understand and predict formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds in 2019, collected the most detailed sampling of the clouds in history...
15 January 2020 NRL Researching Rivers in the Sky Meteorologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory plan to take a harder look in 2020 at a prime, yet difficult to model, component of the global water cycle known as atmospheric rivers...
15 January 2020 NAWCAD Lakehurst Improving Readiness, Sustainment Through Expanded Additive Manufacturing Facility Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst is aiming to improve naval aviation readiness and sustainment through the growth of its advanced manufacturing capabilities, with the recent expansion of its Additive Manufacturing (AM) facility...