Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

**About NIWC Pacific** **Formerly SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific)** **Our Work** **Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific provides the U.S. Navy and military with essential capabilities in the areas of:** - Full lifecycle engineering for information warfare - Robust research, development, and technology transition - Applied electromagnetics, photonics, and atmospheric propagation - Development of offensive and defensive cyber capabilities - Positioning, navigation, and timing laboratory and test facilities - Rapid prototyping and delivery - Cloud-based digital development environment, cloud-enabled digital twins (aka "Digital Abe", "Digital TR"), DevSecOps, Agile - Machine learning, artificial Intelligence, data science, decision optimization - Development and support of unmanned systems (UUV, USV, UAV) **The Workforce** - NWIC Pacific employs a highly educated, diverse, multidisciplinary workforce of more than 5,200 computer scientists, electrical engineers, cyber engineers, AI/ML scientists, technical specialists, contract managers and more, who hold more than 200 Ph.D./J.D. degrees, and approximately 1,500 master's degrees. - The lab, located in San Diego, California, is ranked as a top generator of patents and license agreements. With 81 issued patents in FY20, the Center's active IP portfolio (invention disclosures, filed patent applications and issue patents) grew to over 1,100. - FY20 also saw 59 active Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) signifying research and development partnerships with industry and academia. These CRADAs allow parties to share resources, personnel, equipment and costs. - NIWC Pacific's workforce also includes the largest number of active-duty military personnel stationed at any naval laboratory or warfare center. Approximately 32% of the workforce is made up of active duty, reservists and veterans. This unique arrangement combines the fleet and operational expertise of the warfighter with the skills of the Center's research staff to tackle real-world problems facing the U.S. today and in the future.