Naval Support Facility (NSF) Dahlgren

Located in King George County, Virginia, along the southern shore of the Potomac River, NSF Dahlgren is part of the gateway to the Northern Neck region of Virginia. Approximately 23 miles east of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Dahlgren is 53 miles south of Washington, D.C., and 65 miles northeast of Richmond, Virginia.

The physical characteristics of Dahlgren include 4,319 acres divided into two land areas separated by Machodoc Creek. These land areas are the northern Main Site and the southern Explosive Experimental Area, also known as Pumpkin Neck. The Main Site is used for operational and support activities, as well as military housing. The Pumpkin Neck area includes two large testing ranges, as well as some scattered buildings.

Tenants on Dahlgren include:

Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD)
NSWCDD's mission is to strengthen readiness and operational superiority by providing superior technical capabilities, systems engineering rigor, integrity and leadership. As the premiere naval scientific and engineering institution, Dahlgren technology makes a difference in our military's ability to fight, win and come home safely. Dahlgren can boast that it has “sited“ and certified every gun barrel on every surface craft ever used by the U.S. Navy. With its 18-mile range along the shores of the Potomac River and Machodoc Creek, the Dahlgren test range looks to the future with its booming guns pushing the envelope of ordnance and weaponry for tomorrow's Navy.

Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC)
JWAC provides effects-based precision targeting options for selected networks and nodes to the joint Staff and Unified Commands. JWAC is a premier science and engineering institution that contributes to our nation's security by recommending strategic technical solutions. JWAC uses social and physical science techniques and engineering expertise to assist our nation's warfighters. These recommendations are based on analytical techniques that were first conceived, developed, and operationally introduced by the personnel of a program office at NSWCDD that responded to the Office of the Secretary of Defense's call for support during the Iranian hostage rescue efforts.

Center for Surface Combat Systems⁄Aegis Training and Readiness Center (CSCS⁄ATRC)
The mission of CSCS⁄ATRC provides Aegis Combat System training to the fleet. CSCS, and each of its 19 sites and detachments, is broadly responsible for the Navy's surface combat systems and operations training for officers and enlisted personnel who operate and maintain the weapons, navigation and operations systems found on U. S. Navy surface vessels.

Naval Support Facility (NSF) Indian Head

NSF Indian Head began in 1890 as a naval gun testing facility and evolved into a critical resource serving the armed forces with specialized ordnance devices and components. Indian Head occupies a 3,500-acre peninsula, bounded by the Potomac River and Mattawoman Creek, and is located in the town of Indian Head in Charles County, Md., 30 miles south of Washington, D.C.

Tenants on Indian Head include:

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division (NSWC IHDIV)
NSWC IHDIV is a Navy energetics enterprise leader. It researches and provides energetic systems, comprised of explosives, propellants and pyrotechnic materials for global warfighters. It also researches, develops, tests and engineers a range of energetic technologies for the military.

Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NAVEODTECDIV)
This tenant explores technology and intelligence to develop and deliver EOD-related information, tools, equipment and life-cycle support to meet the needs of joint service EOD operating forces and other customers.

Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity (NOSSA)
NOSSA manages all aspects of the Navy's explosives safety program. NOSSA is responsible for providing technical policies, procedures and design criteria associated with weapons systems safety for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). Its mission also includes software safety across the warfare disciplines. NOSSA also manages all programmatic policy requirements for five major explosives safety program component programs: ordnance safety and security; weapons and combat system safety; ordnance environmental support office; insensitive munitions office; and weapons and ordnance quality evaluation.

Naval Sea Logistics Center, Detachment Atlantic (SEALOG)
SEALOG is charged with providing superior, cost-effective and innovative logistics, engineering, information technology and quality assurance solutions that meet the life-cycle requirements of the current and future Navy.

Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)
JITC is one of the key organizational elements of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and serves as DISA's developmental and operational test organization. JITC is also the authority that certifies that DOD information technology and national security systems meet interoperability requirements.

USMC Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF)
CBIRF is one of America's national assets in the war on terror. It fulfills the mission of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence management in addressing the growing chemical⁄biological terrorist threat.

Naval Support Facility Andrews

NSF Andrews, located on Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Md., is a Naval Air Reserve training facility operating under Commander, Naval Reserve Force.

NSF Andrews primary mission is to optimize total force readiness by providing:

The history of NSF Andrews can be traced to NSF Anacostia, where in 1918 the Navy began testing its new seaplanes. Forty years later, the functions of the air station were moved to nearby Andrews AFB. After four years of transition, a dedication ceremony in January 1962 marked the official birth of Naval Air Facility Andrews.

NSF Andrews has become known as the “Crossroads of the Navy,“ due to its high volume of air traffic bound for bases throughout the free world. A World War II era F6-F Hellcat fighter sits on a pedestal next to the NAF operations⁄administration building as a tribute to the naval aviators of the Washington, D.C., area.