Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

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The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific), formerly the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific or SSC Pacific), the Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC) RDT&E Division, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego, and the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC), provides the U.S. Navy with research, development, delivery and support of integrated command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR), cyber and space systems and capabilities across all warfighting domains. The only Naval technical center headquartered in a major fleet concentration area, NIWC Pacific manages strategic locations both in the Pacific theater and around the world.

NIWC Pacific is advancing the Navy's employment of next generation unmanned systems and autonomous vehicles, large data management, antenna design, clean and renewable energy sources, and both offensive and defensive cyber programs. As the primary research arm of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), NIWC Pacific supports basic research and prototype development, basic and applied science, extensive testing and evaluation services, systems engineering and integration, installation and full spectrum life-cycle support of fielded systems with worldwide connectivity and numerous partnerships with private industry and academia, NIWC Pacific addresses warfighting requirements for Navy, Joint, National and Coalition war fighters.

The laboratory operates as a Naval Working Capital Fund organization and relies on funding from both Navy and non-Navy sponsors rather than direct Congressional appropriations. The vast majority of its workforce is located in San Diego, CA, with detachments located in Hawaii, Guam, and Japan.^[1]