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Providing nuclear communications link now, future
The E-6B Mercury provides an important link in the nation’s strategic nuclear deterrence. It allows survivable communication between the president and the triad of nuclear weapon systems — bombers, missile fields, and ballistic missile submarines.
Sidorovich recognized with Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
Walt Sidorovich, Investments Manager and Range Instrumentation Division Chief Engineer at the Atlantic Test Ranges, part of the NAWCAD DAiTA Group, was recently presented the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award. The award is bestowed upon DoN civilian employees for meritorious…
Teamwork illuminates Spot 9, new landing site for F-35B
A first round of shipboard testing off the West Coast in January demonstrated that a team effort to increase warfighter capability by adding nighttime landing support for U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) F-35B flight operations on LHA(R) America-class Amphibious Assault ships…
JPALS lands 2021 NAWCAD team award
Teamwork characterized the many accomplishments that earned the Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office (PMA-213) Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) team the top choice for the 2021 NAWCAD Commander’s Award in the Team Category.
F-35 Joint Program Office completes initial deployment of new, improved logistics hardware
In January, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), in partnership with Lockheed Martin, achieved another milestone in the transition of the Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) to the modernized F-35 Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN) logistics information system by fielding…
CMV-22 Team wins 2021 NAWCAD Commander’s Award
The CMV-22B Required Navigation Performance (RNP) and Area Navigation (RNAV) Team, consisting of Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) civilians, contractors and military personnel, recently won a 2021 NAWCAD Commander’s Team Award. The team, led by Aircraft Prototype Systems…
Pax River religious programs collect coats for The Mission
Naval Air Station Patuxent River Religious Programs Office collected 271 coats for The Mission in Great Mills during a recent base-wide coat drive. In addition to winter clothing, volunteers collected and dropped off food and toiletries to people in need…
Pax Security takes part in gate runner, VBIED exercise during Citadel Shield
NAS Patuxent River Security personnel took part in gate runner and vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) exercise during the Citadel Shield portion of the Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain (CS-SC) 2022 antiterrorism exercise Feb. 2. Exercise CS-SC 2022 is conducted by Commander,…
New Marine Corps expeditionary matting passes the test
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — Expeditionary Airfield (EAF) Landing Systems teams from the Aircraft Launch and Recovery (ALRE) Program Office (PMA-251) are testing solutions that will make Marines’ expeditionary landings easier and faster.
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