SCRA-Managed National Warheads and Energetics Consoritum Holds Annual Meeting
July 9, 2012
Ordnance Technology Research, Development and Deployment Discussed
CHARLESTON, SC – July 9, 2012 – The National Warheads and EnergeticsConsortium (NWEC), managed by SCRA Applied R&D, recently held itsannual General Membership Meeting and Government Collaboration Day. Themeeting, held in early June, offered government, industry and academiaan opportunity to meet and exchange information relating to theresearch, development and deployment of ordnance technology.
NWEC is the industrial and academic component of the Department ofDefense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC). The two consortiums wereestablished to facilitate collaborative ordnance technology developmentand prototyping. The NWEC/DOTC Enterprise is unique in its ability toleverage the capabilities and investments of its participants, bothpublic and private, to rapidly deliver ordnance technology to thewarfighter.
Approximately 230 representatives from Government, Industry and Academicorganizations participated in the event, which focused on collaborationamong and between the participants. The event also provided an updateon the activities carried out by the NWEC over the past year. 112 of the205 NWEC member organizations from 28 states participated in the firstday session where the Government presented its challenges as they relateto Ordnance Technology. In addition, a series of one-on-one sessionswith the government representatives offered industry and academicattendees an opportunity to quickly engage with a number of governmentattendees on items of particular interest to their respectiveorganizations.
NWEC is one of many consortia – national and international programs andcollaborations between the federal government, private corporations andacademia – which SCRA Applied R&D manages. In addition to theordnance program, which is designed to maintain our technologicalsuperiority on the battlefield, other consortia areas of expertiseinclude: shipbuilding and maritime technologies, composites and advancedmaterials, manufacturing, software applications, agencyinteroperability and homeland security.
“The annual NWEC meeting was an ideal forum for information exchange andcollaboration,” said SCRA Applied R&D President Chris Van Metre. “Ilook forward to continued work on ordnance technologies to support theDepartment of Defense in ensuring our men and women in uniform have thehighest-caliber technologies to protect our country.”
About SCRA
http://www.scra.org/
SCRA is an applied research corporation with over 29 years of experiencedelivering technology solutions with high returns on investment tofederal and corporate clients. To fulfill our mission, SCRA has threesectors: Our Technology Ventures sector helps early-stage companies tocommercialize innovations and create jobs, our Applied R&D sectormanages over 100 national and international programs worth over $1.5billion in contract value and our R&D Facilities sector builds andmanages research facilities that include wet labs, secure rooms forsensitive work and advanced high-tech manufacturing shops. Multipleeconomic impact studies show SCRA’s cumulative impact on SouthCarolina’s economy to be over $14 billion, and that the company hashelped create approximately 15,000 technology-related jobs in the state,with wages averaging between $55,000 and $77,000.
About NWEC
http://www.nwec-dotc.org
DOTC is a collaborative partnership between the Department of Defenseand NWEC. The NWEC component of DOTC was established in August 2000 toquickly provide innovative warhead, fuze, propellant, pyrotechnic andexplosives solutions to meet the operational needs of the User. Commissioned by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,Technology and Logistics as a DoD Laboratory Initiative in December2002, the DOTC enterprise facilitates ordnance technology developmentand prototyping among and between its Government, Industry, and Academicmembers.
