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9 DAHLGREN, Va. , – While Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) is well-known for its work in both lasers and pulsed power systems, incorporating lasers into pulsed power is a new area of research. As such, the basic requirements of the research effort must be built from scratch.
Dr. Jon ‘Cameron’ Pouncey of the High Power Microwave (HPM) Technology Development Branch, E13, of the Gun and Electric Weapon Systems Department (E Department) at NSWCDD is the principal investigator of a new project, funded through a grant initiated by the Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship program.
Women are leading in various capacities at Dahlgren, senior leadership positions include three of seven technical department heads, Chief Technology Officer Jennifer Clift, Senior Scientific Technical Manager (SSTM) for Warfare Systems Software S&T and Development Candaice Deloach, and Chief of Staff Terri Gray. Hornbaker is the Gun and Electric Weapon Systems Department head; Lacy is the Integrated Combat Systems Department head; and Shellie Clift is the Strategic and Computing Systems Department head. In early March, DeLoach joined Jennifer Clift, Hornbaker, Lacy and Shellie Clift as an SSTM.
The overall percentage of the technical department workforce is 73.74% male and 26.6% female as of January 31, 2021, with a 1% increase for females since Jan. 31, 2016, according to data provided by the NSWCDD Equal Employment Opportunity Office.
By NSWCDD Corporate Communications
Think of your first mentor. It’s possible this individual still influences you.
“The web defines a mentorship as a relationship between two people where the individual with more experience, knowledge, and connections is able to pass along what they have learned to a more junior individual within a certain field. The more senior individual is the mentor, and the more junior individual is the mentee,” NSWCDD Technical Director John Fiore stated. “I agree with that definition, and I would add mentoring focuses on teaching. Mentoring is a careful consideration of another’s goals compared to their capability gaps and strategically working to find ways to close those gaps through experience, training and education. Mentoring requires we know something about each other.”