Laboratory Information:
Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane Division
Code TEO
Highway 361
Building 3395
Crane, IN 47522-5001
Website: http://www.crane.navy.mil/
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.crane.navy.mil/newscommunity/TechTrans_default.asp
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Navy
Region: Midwest
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. John Dement
Phone: 812-854-4164
Fax: 812-854-4041
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 expertise in engineering and electronics that carried the facility into a leadership
position in today's Navy. Today NSWC Crane is a multi-mission, multi-service product center with both
a fleet
support and industrial base mission. Our fleet support mission is performed in a joint, cross-service,
and
cross-platform environment when possible. In fulfilling the industrial base mission, NSWC Crane acts
as a
steward of microwave tubes, printed wiring boards, pyrotechnics, radiation hardened devices and batteries.
NSWC Crane serves a modern and sophisticated Navy as a recognized leader in diverse and highly technical
product lines in the areas of ordnance, electronics and electronic warfare. The professionalism and
pride of
NSWC Crane's workforce significantly benefits the Navy and the taxpayer through better products at lower
cost.
NSWC Crane is an industrial leader in applying better processes and technologies to the development,
acquisition and support of modern naval combat weapons systems. NSWC Crane is unique in all of DoD with
the co-location of a range of diverse capabilities complemented by NSWC Crane's acquisition professionals,
material logistics expertise, and the product test ranges on a 100-square mile property. NSWC Crane
serves
the Navy well not only by recruiting and training the very best personnel - both civilian and military
- but also by
acquiring state of the art equipment and facilities. Modern management practices are used to meet today's
needs and to insure NSWC Crane's transition into the future. Partnerships with industry, academia and
other
government activities leverage the strengths of each to meet the needs of the Fleet. NSWC Crane's many
tenant activities, including the Crane Army Ammunition Activity, the Coast Guard and others, enable
us to realize
the synergies possible only through joint-service
cooperation. NSWC Crane is a world-class organization involved in virtually every ship, submarine, aircraft,
and
missile system fielded by the Navy. Every day, 24 hours a day, NSWC Crane is harnessing the power of
technology for the Warfighter.
Mission of the Laboratory:
NSWC Crane supports our Warfighters in
the areas of special missions, strategic missions, and electronic
warfare/information operations by: providing full spectrum acquisition, engineering, logistics, and
maintenance;
sustaining systems; procuring hardware; operations support inserting technology into critical components;
extensive failure analysis; reverse engineering &obsolescence analysis; enhancing fleet's maintenance
capability;
robust test capability.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Collaborative Partnerships
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Dual-use Technologies
- Facility Sharing
- Patents and Licensing
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Technical Assistance
- Testing Services
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Acquisition Support
- Airborne Electronic Warfare
- Chemical/Biological Warfare Detection
- Conventional Ammunition
- Defense Security Systems
- Expeditionary Warfare Systems
- Fleet Maintenance and Modernization
- Global Material Logistics
- Microwave Vacuum and Solid State Devices
- Night Vision & Electro-Optics
- Power Systems
- Pyrotechnics
- Radar
- Small Arms
- Strategic Systems
- Surface Electronic Warfare
- Surface Ship Systems
- Undersea Warfare Systems
