Laboratory Information:
Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane Division
Code QXN
300 Hwy 361
Building 3395
Crane, IN 47522
Website: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/crane
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/crane/working/Pages/Technology%20Transfer.aspx
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Navy
Region: Midwest
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. John Dement
Phone: 812-854-4164
Fax: (812) 854-6395
Email: john.dement@navy.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The initial mission of Crane Division, Naval Surface
Warfare Center was to prepare, load, renovate, receive,
store, and issue all ammunition, including pyrotechnics and
illuminating projectiles, and to act as a principal source
of supply at a most critical time - the early days of World
War II. After the end of World War II, NSWC Crane
began to develop an expertise in engineering and
electronics that has carried the facility into a leadership
position in today's Navy.
Today,
as a warfare center within Naval Sea Systems Command, NSWC
Crane is a multi-mission, multi- service product center
with both fleet support and industrial base missions. Our
fleet support mission is performed in a joint,
cross-service, and cross-platform environment. NSWC Crane
serves a modern and sophisticated Navy as a recognized
leader in the areas of Strategic Missions, Electronic
Warfare and Special Missions. By stewarding the technical
capabilities required of the warfare center, NSWC Crane is
a service leader in microwave tube technology, printed
circuit boards, pyrotechnics, radiation-hardened devices
and power systems.
Partnerships with industry, academia and other government
activities leverage the strengths of each to meet the needs
of the Department of Defense. NSWC Crane and its partners
are known for world-class technical leadership to virtually
every Warfighter, ship, submarine, aircraft, and missile
system fielded by the Navy.
Mission of the Laboratory:
The mission of NSWC Crane Division is to provide
acquisition engineering, in-service engineering and
technical support for sensors, electronics, electronic
warfare and special warfare weapons. NSWC Crane also works
to apply component and system-level product and industrial
engineering to surface sensors, strategic systems, special
warfare devices and electronic warfare/information
operations systems, as well as to execute other
responsibilities as assigned by the Commander, Naval
Surface Warfare Center.
The focus of NSWC Crane is harnessing the power of
technology for the Warfighter. We specialize in the total
life-cycle support within three primary focus areas:
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Special Missions
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Strategic Missions
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Electronic Warfare/Information Operations
Facilities:
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Acoustic Test Facility (indoor/outdoor)
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Active Array Near Field Test Chamber
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Advanced Composite & Fabrication Repair
Facilities
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Anechoic Chamber Test Facilities (multiple)
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Anti-Tamper Technology Laboratory
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Ballistic Acoustic Targeting System
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Clean Rooms (multiple – 10k and 100k)
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Compact Millimeter Wave Chamber
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Comprehensive Antenna Analysis Facility
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Defense Securities Systems Complex
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Elastomer Laboratory
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Electromagnetic Environment Analysis and
Development
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Electro-Optics (EO) Training Range
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Electronic Warfare Techniques Development
Laboratory
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Environmental Testing Facilities
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EW Load Set Implementation Laboratory
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EW/IO Performance Laboratory
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EW Training Range
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Far-Field Radar Test Ranges (6288 ft.)
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Failure & Materials Analysis Laboratory
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Firing Range (multiple - indoor/outdoor)
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Test Facility
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High Energy Density Battery Test Facility
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High Fidelity Network Laboratory
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High Power Radar Test Facility (S & X Band)
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High Power Radio Frequency Test Equipment
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High Voltage Test Laboratory
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Information Operations Test Range
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Infrared Countermeasures (IRCM) Development &
Prototype Facilities
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Laser Test & Training Ranges
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Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Facility
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Material Analysis
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Microwave Components Systems Engineering Facility
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Microwave Tube Testing Lab
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Mobile EW Systems and Signal Simulators
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Modeling & Simulation Laboratory (heat, stress,
acoustics, electromagnetics)
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Munitions Training Range
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Nigh Vision Test Range
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Outdoor Antenna Field Testing
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Outdoor Laser Range
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Portable Temperature Chambers (trailer mounted)
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Power System Evaluation Facility
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Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing Facility
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Radar Systems Engineering Complex
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Radiation Laboratory
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Realistic Ground Antenna (RGA) Range
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Simulated Shipboard Local Area Network (LAN) for NIAPS
Development/Testing
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Solid-State Component Test & Evaluation
Facility
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Special Munitions Test Range
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Special Weapons Assessment Facility
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Tapered Test Ranges
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Underwater Demo Test Range
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Vacuum Electronics Laboratory
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Vacuum Electron Devices Specialized Laboratory
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Vacuum Process & Failure Analysis Lab
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Vehicle Automated Diagnostic System (VADS)
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Water Immersion Tanks
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Weapons & Ammunition Environmental Testing
Facilities
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Weapons Training Range
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Wind Tunnel – Ram Air Turbine
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X-Ray Facilities
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Collaborative Partnerships
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Dual-use Technologies
- Facility Sharing
- Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA)
- Memorandum of Understanding or Agreement (MOU or MOA)
- Patent Licensing Agreements
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Technical Assistance
- Testing Services
- Work For Private Party Agreements
- Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM)
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Acquisition Support
- Antennas
- Chemical/Biological Warfare Detection
- Conventional Ammunition
- Defense Security Systems
- Expeditionary Warfare Systems
- Failure Analysis
- Fleet Maintenance and Modernization
- Global Material Logistics
- Engineering
- Microwave Vacuum and Solid State Devices
- Night Vision & Electro-Optics
- Power Systems
- Pyrotechnics
- Radar
- Small Arms
- Strategic Systems
- Surface Electronic Warfare
- Surface Ship Systems
- Training
- Undersea Warfare Systems
- Weapons Systems
- Reverse Engineering
