USS Delbert D. Black finished trials on March 12 allowing the U.S. Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey to review the ship’s crew performing a series of demonstrations prior to its planned commissioning.
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The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), is seeking proposals for demonstrations of innovative environmental and installation energy technologies as candidates for funding beginning in fiscal year 2021. Pre-proposals are due March 5, 2020 by 2 p.m. ET. DoD organizations (service and defense agencies) may submit pre-proposals for demonstrations of innovative technologies in the
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The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is seeking to fund environmental research and development in the Munitions Response program area. SERDP invests across the broad spectrum of basic and applied research, as well as advanced technology development. The development and application of innovative environmental technologies will reduce the costs, environmental risks and time required to resolve environmental problems
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Stay tuned for the full story, coming online this June at Sea Technology. Viviana Castillo is a research scientist and engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. In August, she boarded a 300-ft. vessel to participate in an at-sea test of a U.S. Department of Defense maritime project. How did she land on that ship? That
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The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is seeking to fund environmental research and development in the munitions response program area. The munitions response program area supports the development and demonstration of innovative technologies that can characterize, remediate and scientifically manage sites that are affected by military munitions underwater. SERDP is requesting proposals that respond
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The Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service was awarded to Steven Kim, a mechanical engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division, at an award presentation held on base June 7. It is the second highest award granted to career civilian employees by the secretary of defense. Kim, recognized nationally and
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