Naval Sea Systems Command

A new challenge to automate one of the most tedious jobs in government

A lot of the data that government produces needs to be rated; safe to distribute, controlled but unclassified, or maybe secret and classified. That’s simplifying…

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Navy making headway on longstanding maintenance backlog

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Modern ship radar digital screen above blue abstract background

NAVSEA shifting modernization focus from technology to mission outcomes

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Fast-track hiring authorities taking hold in DoD’s maintenance depots

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Navy creating new senior civilian position to manage long-term sustainment

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U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard gets new icebreaker, still needs more to compete in Arctic

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Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD) Energetics Manufacturing Department's Chemical Engineer Amy Luebbering demonstrates the five-gallon Resonant Acoustic Mixer (RAM-5) to Technical Director Ashley Johnson during the RAM-5 facility's ribbon cutting ceremony, Apr. 30.

Navy building the future of energetics in Indian Head

Navy’s own ‘red wheelbarrow glazed with rain’

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Navy can’t build fast enough to reach 355 in time. So how will it get there?

Navy, Air Force want Congress to abolish 180-day waiting period to hire military retirees

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Amid funding challenges, 2017 marks year of change for Defense

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Sarkis Tatigian, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Associate Director for Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs, celebrates 75 years of federal service on Sept. 26, 2017 at the Washington Navy Yard. During Tatigian’s tenure, the Navy has awarded more than an estimated $100 billion to small businesses from fiscal years 1951-2017, based on inflation and wartime efforts. (U.S. Navy Photo by Juan P. Liriano/Released)

DoD’s longest-serving employee marks 75 years in government

Sarkis Tatigian, 94, just marked his 75th anniversary as a Navy employee, but says he has no immediate plans to retire.

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Investigation: Navy shipyard wasted $21 million building off-the-books police force

An investigation by Naval Sea Systems Command found employees at the nation’s largest Navy shipyard spent 12 years amassing weapons, vehicles and boats,…

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Robert Gold, DoD’s director of engineering enterprise

DoD wants to build cybersecurity into programs with new policy

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The Defense Department will release new guidance on systems security engineering, a more detailed way of explaining how and where to engineer security features into programs, in the near future.