Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division NAWCWD

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division NAWCWD is a government organization based in Ridgecrest, California. The company employs 1,245 people and generates an annual revenue of $1 billion. NAWCWD is dedicated to advancing weapons development for the Department of the Navy. They operate two primary locations: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu. At China Lake, they manage over 1.1 million acres of land ranges and multiple weapons development laboratories. At Point Mugu, they serve as the Department of the Navy's Electronic Warfare Technical Center and operate the Point Mugu Sea Range, a vast instrumented area encompassing 36,000 square miles of sea and air space, including San Nicolas Island. NAWCWD is a center of excellence in weapons development for the Department of the Navy. For more information, visit navair.navy.mil/nawcwd.