28 April 2025 Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition Fosters Next-Gen Cybersecurity Talent NIWC Atlantic's Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition (PCDC) brought high school, college, and professional teams together for a three-day cybersecurity challenge. Teams defended simulated city infrastructure from "red team" attacks. The competition emphasized real-world scenarios and fostered...
28 April 2025 Southern Lightning: NIWC Atlantic, NSWC Crane Advance Navy’s Unmanned Mission NIWC Atlantic and NSWC Crane's "Southern Lightning" exercise off Sullivan's Island tested unmanned systems integration for the future hybrid fleet. USS Cole and unmanned vehicles evaluated communications technologies in a littoral environment. The exercise, linked to the DoD's "Silent Swarm,"...
31 March 2025 NIWC Atlantic Helps Train Sub Sailors While Saving Navy Money The Navy's CSRR MRTS offers a cost-effective, realistic submarine radio room simulation, yielding 68% savings over legacy systems. It provides hands-on training for various submarine platforms, enabling crews to practice in diverse scenarios, including simulated equipment failures. The system...
28 March 2025 Technically Speaking Podcast: Wartime Readiness This episode of Technically Speaking discusses wartime readiness, focusing on NIWC Atlantic's preparations for potential conflict with China by 2027. Jen Shauger explains the importance of readiness in the context of a changing global landscape, emphasizing workforce training, system preparedness,...
26 March 2025 NIWC Atlantic Conducts Wartime Readiness Experiment NIWC Atlantic's SoSNIE experiment evaluated 45+ systems for wartime readiness, focusing on joint force C4ISR interoperability across land, sea, and air platforms, including autonomous vehicles and biometric systems. The experiment aimed to improve warfighter capabilities in potential conflicts...
13 March 2025 Eye on the Grid: Navy Develops ‘MOSAICS’ to Cyber-Defend Critical Infrastructure MOSAICS, a cybersecurity framework developed by NIWC Atlantic, safeguards critical infrastructure control systems through real-time threat detection and response. This vendor-agnostic system, potentially becoming DoD building code, offers resilience against cyberattacks, extending its impact from...
04 March 2025 Technically Speaking Podcast: Cultivating a Cohesive Workforce in a Global Landscape This episode focuses on the importance of organizational culture at NIWC Atlantic. Captain O'Neal and Scott Dreyer discuss how NIWC Atlantic fosters a collaborative environment that prioritizes both mission success and employee well-being. They highlight the use of technology like Microsoft 365 to...
31 January 2025 Technically Speaking Podcast: Installing Navy programs on ships and submarines This is the first episode of “Technically Speaking” for the new year of 2025! Co-hosts Chelsie Holloway and Alex Jackson begin with sharing their personal goals for the next 12 months. Then they invite 2 experts on to speak about how NIWC Atlantic is involved with the installation and modernization...
07 January 2025 NIWC Atlantic Develops Dashboard to Aid CNO Decision-Making A team of data scientists from the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic was recently tasked with providing Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Lisa Franchetti with a tool to easily access naval metrics and information...
18 December 2024 NIWC Atlantic Drives Strategic Collaboration, Alignment at Eastern Defense Summit Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic served as a primary contributor during the 2024 Eastern Defense Summit on Dec. 11-12, as the command sought to help the defense industry better understand some of the Navy's biggest technical challenges...