Naval Surface Warfare Center Helps Make Coast Guard History
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS090306-25
Release Date: 3/6/2009 7:38:00 PM
From Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme
PORT HUENEME, Calif. (NNS) -- Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Port Hueneme led the first Coast Guard National Security Cutter Combat Systems Ships Qualification Trials (CSSQT) in Coast Guard history aboard Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) Jan. 20-Feb. 27.
CSSQT is a series of at-sea exercises and tests to verify shipboard combat and weapon systems have been installed properly and can be operated and maintained safely and effectively by the crew. The CSSQTs are conducted at NSWC Port Hueneme, the Navy's in-service engineering agent for combat and weapons systems on surface ships.
Bertholf is also the first Coast Guard ship to carry advanced technology combat systems, similar to those on Navy surface ships.
"The CSSQT was highly successful because we completed the majority of the testing, and we were able to identify the shortfalls of all the major combat systems," said Lt. Holly Wendelin, the ship's project officer.
The successful CSSQT execution by NSWC Port Hueneme, a field activity of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), provides for sustainability of the Coast Guard's advanced fleet today and tomorrow. In designing and engineering next-generation ships and combat systems, NAVSEA uses engineering techniques to design systems and create a safer environment and a better quality of work for Sailors.
"I consider the CSSQT a success in that it achieved its overall objective — characterized combat system performance and demonstrated the crew's ability to operate and maintain this complex system in support of the Coast Guard's mission," said Rick Howard, NSWC Port Hueneme project manager.
For more news from Naval Sea Systems Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/navsea/.
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