Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
Port Hueneme, CA
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Technology Transfer Contact:: Mr. Kurt Buehler; Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center; Code 423; 1100 23rd Avenue; Port Hueneme, CA 93043-4370; 805-982-4897 Fax: 805-982-4832; Email: kurt.buehler@navy.mil; Home Page: http://www.nfesc.navy.mil/

Background:
The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (ESC) is the Navy's premier specialized facilities engineering and technology service center. ESC supports the Fleet and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) clients with cost effective, responsive solutions using leading edge technology and resources. ESC is headquartered in Port Hueneme, California at Naval Base Ventura, with a workforce of 516 civilians and 17 military professionals. ESC's five major areas of expertise and business are Shore Facilities, Ocean Facilities Engineering, Amphibious and Expeditionary Operations, Energy and Utilities Systems, and Environmental Engineering.

Mission:
Our mission is to identify and apply emerging engineering solutions through engineering, design, construction, consultation, test and evaluation, technology demonstration, implementation, and program management support. We leverage technology to enhance our clients' effectiveness and efficiency. We use existing technology where we can, identify and adapt breakthrough technology when appropriate, and perform technology development when required. By doing this, we extend the life of waterfront facilities, improve the operation and safety of ship support systems, and work within environmental constraints while saving time, money, and energy.

Business and Product Lines:: Ocean Facilities:
Focus on improving the Navy's capabilities for the design, construction, maintenance, and repair of fixed ocean facilities. Regions of interest include all seafloor environments in water depths up to 20,000 feet. Technologies and services include marine geotechniques, ocean structures, undersea warfare, underwater cable facilities, hyperbaric facilities, mooring systems, magnetic silencing facilities, underwater inspection programs, ocean construction equipment inventories, pipeline integrity assessments, and coastal facilities.
Amphibious & Expeditionary:
Focus on supporting and enhancing construction capabilities, maintenance, and war-damage restoration for advanced bases. Technologies for high mobility forces in combat support and combat service support roles have also been developed in support of the Marine Corps doctrine of Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW). The D-Day Mobile Fuel Distribution System is one set of technologies recently developed to meet initial amphibious assault fuel requirements for forces ashore from a standoff distance of 30 nautical miles.
Energy & Utilities:
Focus on the Naval shore establishment's energy program through the development of new technologies encompassing all facets of energy supply, distribution, and consumption. The program is structured to achieve maximum practical energy conservation and to develop reliable, cost-effective alternate or renewable energy sources to replace petroleum and/or natural gas. Specific areas include energy conservation systems, energy data management, energy technology transfer, energy and utilities management, control systems, utility systems, and communication facilities for utilities.
Environmental Engineering:
Focus on customizing technology to meet the Naval shore establishment's environmental requirements for more than 185,500 fixed facilities and more than 100,000 natural ecosystems. ESC's goal is to facilitate compliance with new and more stringent environmental legislation and regulations at all government levels in a cost-effective manner. Efforts concentrate on environmental restoration, waste management, environmental compliance, environmental data management, environmental technology transfer, pollution prevention, indoor air management, and oil spill prevention and cleanup.
Shore Facilities:
Focus on new concepts and systems in waterfront facilities, physical security, ordnance facilities, aviation facilities, base survivability, and engineering technology applications. New capabilities result in more flexible and economical methods for resolving major Fleet shore facilities challenges. ESC is the Navy's lead in developing new security and engineering concepts and technology to enable the Navy to better protect its personnel and assets from vandalism, sabotage, theft, terrorism, and other unlawful acts.

Unique Facilities and Assets:

Deep Ocean Laboratory (DOL):
The DOL houses a family of pressure vessels and supporting equipment that simulate the pressures and temperatures of the deep ocean environment. Some vessels are capable of generating hydrostatic pressures up to 20,000 pounds per square inch, which would be the equivalent of an ocean depth of 45,000 feet. The DOL houses the largest pressure vessel west of the Mississippi River, and is available for use by private industry as well as government agencies.
Chemical Analysis and Materials Testing Laboratory:
This laboratory provides materials identification and failure analysis, construction materials testing, laboratory data to support construction, and environmental chemistry analysis. A wide range of equipment includes a scanning electron microscope, state-of-the-art chromatographs, and a variety of spectroscopy tools. Environmental and weathering test chambers simulate hot and humid/dry climates, high sunlight exposure, cold and dry/humid atmospheres, and seawater and salt fog exposure.
Advanced Waterfront Technology Test Site (AWTTS):
The AWTTS is a 150-foot, all-composite demonstration pier. This facility serves as a national center for the development, evaluation, and demonstration of new concepts for upgrading, repair, and life extension of waterfront structures, with special emphasis on composite materials.
National Environmental Technology Test Site (NETTS):
ESC manages the Navy's NETTS, located at Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme. As part of the DoD/National Environmental Technology Demonstration Program (D/NETDP), the site provides in-situ (in place) and ex-situ (removed from original site) locations used to demonstrate advanced characterization and cleanup technologies for diesel fuel, gasoline, and waste oil contaminants in soil and groundwater. This site is available to government, universities, and industry principal investigators and the technologies which prove effective can be immediately applied in the environmental clean up of federal land.
Motor Vessel INDEPENDENCE:
ESC owns and operates the M/V INDEPENDENCE ("Indy"), a 200-foot ocean-going ship with worldwide capabilities. Originally built to support space shuttle missions, the "Indy" and her crew can be contracted for a variety of ocean systems missions. The "Indy" often acts as an ocean-going platform for ESC's Phantom DHD2+2 and MAXRover, ESC's Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). The ESC's ROVs and their operators have a distinguished record of undersea operations including cable inspection, search and recovery, and more.
Seawater Desalination Test Facility:
Our 3,000-square foot seawater desalination test facility is located near the Port Hueneme, harbor entrance. This world-class facility is used for long-term test and evaluation of existing and emerging water purification and desalination technologies for both government and industry. This is the only desalination test facility located on the West Coast with direct access to seawater from the Pacific Ocean, and is operational on a 24-hour basis.
Unique Facilities and Assets:: Deep Ocean Laboratory (DOL):
The DOL houses a family of pressure vessels and supporting equipment that simulate the pressures and temperatures of the deep ocean environment. Some vessels are capable of generating hydrostatic pressures up to 20,000 pounds per square inch, which would be the equivalent of an ocean depth of 45,000 feet. The DOL houses the largest pressure vessel west of the Mississippi River, and is available for use by private industry as well as government agencies.
Chemical Analysis and Materials Testing Laboratory:
This laboratory provides materials identification and failure analysis, construction materials testing, laboratory data to support construction, and environmental chemistry analysis. A wide range of equipment includes a scanning electron microscope, state-of-the-art chromatographs, and a variety of spectroscopy tools. Environmental and weathering test chambers simulate hot and humid/dry climates, high sunlight exposure, cold and dry/humid atmospheres, and seawater and salt fog exposure.
Advanced Waterfront Technology Test Site (AWTTS):
The AWTTS is a 150-foot, all-composite demonstration pier. This facility serves as a national center for the development, evaluation, and demonstration of new concepts for upgrading, repair, and life extension of waterfront structures, with special emphasis on composite materials.
National Environmental Technology Test Site (NETTS):
ESC manages the Navy's NETTS, located at Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme. As part of the DoD/National Environmental Technology Demonstration Program (D/NETDP), the site provides in-situ (in place) and ex-situ (removed from original site) locations used to demonstrate advanced characterization and cleanup technologies for diesel fuel, gasoline, and waste oil contaminants in soil and groundwater. This site is available to government, universities, and industry principal investigators and the technologies which prove effective can be immediately applied in the environmental clean up of federal land.
Motor Vessel INDEPENDENCE:
ESC owns and operates the M/V INDEPENDENCE ("Indy"), a 200-foot ocean-going ship with worldwide capabilities. Originally built to support space shuttle missions, the "Indy" and her crew can be contracted for a variety of ocean systems missions. The "Indy" often acts as an ocean-going platform for ESC's Phantom DHD2+2 and MAXRover, ESC's Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). The ESC's ROVs and their operators have a distinguished record of undersea operations including cable inspection, search and recovery, and more.
Seawater Desalination Test Facility:
Our 3,000-square foot seawater desalination test facility is located near the Port Hueneme, harbor entrance. This world-class facility is used for long-term test and evaluation of existing and emerging water purification and desalination technologies for both government and industry. This is the only desalination test facility located on the West Coast with direct access to seawater from the Pacific Ocean, and is operational on a 24-hour basis.

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Last Updated 06/01/2009