25 June 2025 Navy Successfully Demonstrates Swarm Mission Planning Tech The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) successfully demonstrated innovative mission planning software for swarms and other configurations of unmanned air, surface, and underwater systems at its headquarters...
03 April 2025 Marines, Air Force fight as a joint force for the first time in the Navy's Joint Simulation Environment NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, Patuxent River, Md. – For the first time, U.S. Marine Corps F-35 and Air Force F-22 pilots trained as a joint fighting force in the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division's (NAWCAD) Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) at Naval Air Station...
24 February 2025 The Navy’s carrier airwing flies further with Hercules’ new tanker approval PATUXENT RIVER, Md. -- The Navy Reserve’s KC-130T Hercules fleet, upgraded with the NP200 propeller system, is cleared to aerially refuel a significantly wider range of aircraft across the carrier airwing following envelope expansion testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division...
23 December 2024 Navy Uses First-of-Their-Kind Simulators to Train Carrier Air Wings at Sea Aviators across USS Abraham Lincoln’s (CVN 72) carrier air wing now train as a joint fighting force while deployed at sea in advanced simulators thanks to aviation pros across the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) enterprise. ...
18 December 2024 United States Naval Test Pilot School graduates Class 165 NASA astronauts delivered the keynote address during the graduation ceremony for the United States Naval Test Pilot School...
08 October 2024 Fleet Readiness Center Southeast engineer earns NAWCAD Fellow distinction Ian Hawkins, a Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) materials engineering supervisor, was recently accepted into the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Fellow Program coordinated by Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s (NAWCAD) during an award ceremony held at NAVAIR headquarters in...
22 August 2024 Navy’s Carrier Air Wings Will Train as a Joint Fighting Force in Simulators at Sea Aviators across USS Abraham Lincoln’s (CVN 72) carrier air wing now train as a joint fighting force using advanced simulators developed and installed by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)...
10 July 2024 Navy, Air Force Fighters to Train as a Joint Force in NAWCAD’s Joint Simulation Environment PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - Navy and Air Force fighter pilots will begin training as a joint force at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)’s Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) starting in 2024. NAWCAD installed a division of four Air Force F-22 Raptor cockpits...
02 April 2024 Navy and Air Force Fighters to Train as a Joint Force in NAWCAD’s Joint Simulation Environment Patuxent River, Md. – Navy and Air Force fighter pilots will begin training as a joint force at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD)’s Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) starting in 2024...
04 January 2024 NRL Researchers Receive Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award The Hydrogen Small Unit Power (H-SUP) prototype offers a low signature solution for electric power production, up to 1.2 kW of continuous power, in a ruggedized package...