Cmdr. Alan Phillips
Executive Officer

Dr. Robert Gates
Technical Director

IHDIV, NSWC

Total Employees 1371
Civilians 1273
Military 4
Contractors 94

Allen P. Gehris, Jr.
Naval Surface Warfare Center
National Workload Manager – Aviation Systems (Acting)

Mr. Gehris was appointed as the Acting National Workload Manager for Aviation Systems in August 2009. He has national strategicoversight responsibility for NAVSEA programs that are funded by PEO CV, PEO U&W, PEO T, PEO A, JSF, Army and Air Force. His role includes oversight of the health of the technical capabilities and investments of the executing divisions and to ensure readiness and availability to the Warfighter demands. This involves national strategic responsibility for Warfare Center workload pertaining to Anti-Submarine Warfare Systems, Aircraft, Aircraft Carriers, Air Weapon Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems, Cruise Missiles, Strike Weapons, Ordnance and Energetics, and Air and Undersea Warfare (USW) Ranges andEquipment.

DoD Energetics Center

As a Department of Defense (DoD) Energetics Center, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division (NSWC, IHDIV) is a critical component of the Warfare Center (WC) Enterprise. It is our mission to provide research, development, test and evaluation and in-service support of energetics and energetic materials for warheads, propulsion systems, ordnance and pyrotechnic devices and fuzing for Navy, Joint Forces, and the nation, to include research, test, and engineering of chemicals, propellants, explosives, related electronic devices, associated ordnance equipment and special weapons support.

What are Energetics?

Energetics are explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, reactive materials, related chemicals and fuels and their application in propulsion systems and ordnance.

As the largest DoD full spectrum energetics facility and leader in the Navy’s energetic enterprise, NSWC, IHDIV employs a workforce of over 1,350, of which more than 970 are scientists, engineers and technicians dedicated to every aspect of developing and sustaining explosives,propellants, pyrotechnics, high energy chemicals and their application into warfighting systems. In addition, NSWC, IHDIV has the largestconcentration of PhDs (50) working in energetics in the Warfare Centers including the highest number of ‘‘rocket scientists” e.g., synthesis chemists, detonation physicists, and formulation scientists dedicated to the energetics national competency.

The Division’s unique synergy and balanced capabilities address all aspects of the energetics technicaldiscipline including basic research, applied technology, technology demonstration, prototyping,engineering development, acquisition, low rate production, in-service engineering⁄mishaps and failure investigations, surveillance and demilitarization.

If the military experience problems with current weapon systems, or encounter new threats on the battlefield, NSWC, IHDIV collaborates and provides the appropriate solution to answer the call. As the Navy’s lead technical authority in the U.S., NSWC, IHDIV performs over 60% of all Navy energetics workload, and has an unmatched record of 16 Navy-qualified explosives transitioned into 50 Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine Corps weapons. Since 1985, 70% of all explosives deployed in US weapons were developed by IHDIV.

IHDIV’s unique cradle-to-grave energetics capabilities support rapid response solutions for our warfighters.Examples include:

- IHDIV’s CAD⁄PAD Joint Program Office, which provides unified life-cycle management of cartridge actuated and propellant actuated devices for the joint services. They employ ‘‘Best Practices” to improve resource management, contracting, facilities, training, and streamline science and technology.

- IHDIV is the nation’s only designand development agent for under water warheads and explosives.

- IHDIV is designated as the Navy’s Manufacturing Technology Center for Energetics.

- IHDIV is the free-world’s sole provider of OTTO Fuel II for both domestic and foreign torpedoes.

- IHDIV’s explosive modelingexperts have jointly developed high fidelity underwater hydrocodes (DYSMAS) with German researchers, providing the Navy a capability to accurately predict underwater explosive performance and affects for a wide variety of lethality and vulnerability applications. Extensions of DYSMAS are now used to help improve future ship hull designs.

Recent technological advancements in energetic materials have yielded development of a novel method to explosively generate plasmas with applications against a variety of hardened target breaching. The Division is also pioneering nano-energetic material R&D efforts leading to a complete change in the future directions of energetic materials, components, and systems, providing the capability to support the development of smaller yet higher performing, greater precision, combat safe insensitive, ‘‘dial-a-yield” weapons in the not too distant future.

IHDIV executes this world-class energetic system engineering in unique facilities including unmatched chemical scale-up labs, the country’s only energetic-certified MEMSdevelopment lab, next generation twin-screw extrusion processingsystems and the largest set ofdetonation science ‘‘bomb-proofs” in the free-world.

The IHDIV’s full-spectrumexpertise, facilities, and systemengineering know-how allows for energetics to be sustained as a National Competency. This exceptional capability to synergize across the organization - from basic research and engineering, to test, evaluation and full-scale manufacturing - provides the Navy and nation a one-of-a-kind core capability unmatchedanywhere in the U.S. addressingcurrent and future warfighting needs.

The success and achievements of IHDIV are attributable to a combination of state-of-the-art facilities,sustained investment in science and technology by the DoD, and most importantly the employee population-an exceptional assembly of tremendously talented, dedicated and innovative people.

As a successful and vibrant technical institution, we come to work each day giving our very best so that ourservice men and women can do their jobs, defend our American freedoms, and come home safely to theirfamilies.

For more information check our website: www.ih.navy.mil