Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport wins NAVSEA technical awards

NEWPORT – More than 20 members of Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport recently received 2016 Naval Sea Systems Command Engineer, Scientist and Technical Authority of the Year Awards.

Twenty-two members were recognized, either as individuals or as members of a team, according to a press release from NUWC.

NAVSEA, in Washington, D.C., said winners were recognized for exceptional leadership, customer care and contributions to the Navy mission.

Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, commander of NAVSEA, congratulated the award winners, as well as those who were nominated.

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“I am very proud of everyone involved and the incredible work that you do. Thank you for all that you do for our Navy,” he said in a statement.

Award winners were selected from across NAVSEA, which includes approximately 80,000 employees. Forty-nine individuals were named as NAVSEA awardees, including those from Newport.

Denise Crimmins, of Middletown, was named Technical Authority of the Year for her work as deputy director, Undersea Warfare Systems Engineering, a position she held from July 2012 to August 2016. Crimmins, who currently serves as the Division Newport senior scientific technical manager for USW prototyping, directed a team of national-level technical experts to safeguard the Navy’s systems in her award-winning role.

In the Engineer Team Category, NUWC’s Advanced Weapons Enhanced by Submarine Unmanned Aerial System Against Mobile Targets UAS/Tactical Data Link Team was one of two teams named nationally by NAVSEA.

The AWESUM UAS/TDL Engineering Team recently completed the two-year Joint Capability Technology Demonstration effort to rapidly deliver the warfighter with the ability to discretely and rapidly identify and defeat time-sensitive mobile targets in an advanced Anti-Access Area Denial environment. Seventeen Division Newport members served on this team.

NUWC’s five-member DGO-1 Coating Test Team received NAVSEA’s Scientist Team Category award.

Three years ago, a Division Newport scientist team began an effort to find out how to make cables and connectors last longer in the fleet. The team investigated a coating material by Teledyne/D.G. O’Brien, conducting a short-term test to determine the coating was resistant to cathodic delamination and developing a method to conduct long-term corrosion testing in a shortened time period. The savings over the lifetime a single submarine-class accrued from switching to DGO-1 coating on one set of outboard cables for one set of sensors is estimated to be $150 million, the release said.

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