OUR MILITARY
NAVAL SUPPORT FACILITY INDIAN HEAD The western Charles County Town of Indian Head is home to the Department of Defense (DoD) Naval installation, Naval Support Facility Indian Head. The base houses tenant commands involved in a diverse and strategically important mix of research and development and manufacturing activities as well as programs serving the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Army forces deployed worldwide. In addition to its military value, the Indian Head Navy installation makes a significant economic contribution to the local community by serving as one of the County’s largest employers. Established in 1890 as the Naval Proving Ground, today the installation is DoD’s research and development center for energetics technology as well as ordnance detection and disposal, micro-electronicmechanical systems, and nanotechnology. The base is a multi-military facility housing the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) as its largest tenant. The base also hosts the Chemical & Biological Incident Response Force (Marines), other military support activities, and numerous defense subcontractors and support units. Active employment at the base is
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approximately 3,834 military, civilian, and support personnel. For fiscal year 2020 the naval base generated over $355 million funneled directly into the local economy in the form of civilian and military payroll dollars and an additional $571 million in total contracts. MAJOR COMMANDS AT NSF INDIAN HEAD Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD): The Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) is the principal Energetics Center for the DoD. The command’s mission is to provide research, development, test and evaluation, and in-service support of energetics and energetic materials. As the largest DoD full spectrum energetics facility and leader in the Navy's energetic enterprise, NSWC IHD employs a workforce of over 2,200 (federal, military, and contractors), of whom more than 800 are scientists, engineers and technicians more than 50 holding doctorates dedicated to every aspect of developing and sustaining explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, high energy chemicals and their application into war fighting systems. NSWC IHD performs over 60 percent of all Navy energetics workload.
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