NAVSUP Business Systems Center cleans up Sporting Hill Road for Earth Day

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MECHANICSBURG, Pa Sailors and civilians assigned to Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Business Systems Center(BSC)celebratedEarthDay2023by removing trash and debris from a two-mile stretch of Sporting Hill Road as part of the PennsylvaniaDepartmentofTransportation (PennDOT) state-wide Adopt A Highway program,April21.

The cleanup served as an opportunity to helppreservethelocalenvironmentandwas the latest event supporting the command’s 15-yearpartnershipwithPennDOT

“NAVSUP BSC has been in Mechanicsburgformorethan60years Overthelast15 years we’ve maintained a partnership with PennDOT to keep this strip of road outside ofthebaseclean, saidCapt DavidD.Carnal commanding officer, NAVSUP BSC “We want to have a good partnership with the community andthisisourwaytogiveback foralltheydotosupportus.”

The Navy partners with local communitiesinpromotingenvironmentalandenergy education initiatives aimed at preserving, protecting, restoring, and improving the environment.Theseinitiativesmayinvolve activities such as fostering environmental awareness among young people teaching the values of environmental protection and energy efficiency, enhancing environmental and energy science curricula in schools, implementingrecyclingprograms,andorganizing or participating in events focused on energy conservation or environmental cleanup, such as the PennDOT Adopt A Highwayprogram.

“It’s an honor to participate in this event and be a part of a long-standing tradition,” said Lt Kile Green, NAVSUP BSC project officer and Adopt A Highway coordina- tor “It’s important for us to take some time out of our day to do something, no matter howsmall,tohelpkeepourcommunityand planetsafeandclean.

Adopt A Highway areas include state highway rights-of-way, interchange areas, trafficislands,ortwo-milesectionsofroadway.

“PennDOT is very thankful for civicminded groups like NAVSUP BSC for stepping up to help to keep our roads clean through the Adopt A Highway program, said Dave Thompson, community relations coordinatorforPennDOT.“Groupslikethis provide a great service to our Commonwealth and augment our county maintenance programs, allowing them to focus on road safety and other initiatives We are so thankfulforallthattheydo.”

Community partners volunteer for two years PennDOTprovidesmaterialstomaintain designated areas and posts signs along theroadtorecognizeparticipatingpartners

“The highway cleanup is a great way to show that we want to take care of the communityandmakesuretheyknowwe’re here, not just to support the warfighter, but our local community as well,” said Lt j.g. Riley Petsch, project officer for NAVSUP BSC

NAVSUP BSC provides the Navy with information systems support through the design development, and maintenance of systems in the functional areas of logistics, supply chain management, transportation, finance, and accounting and is one of 11 commandsunderCommander,NAVSUP

For more information about NAVSUP BSC, visit https://www.navsup.navy.mil/ NAVSUP-Enterprise/NAVSUP-Business-Systems-Center/ a stand-alone combat system to a node of a combat system network, he ensured that ATRC’strainingsystemsandnetworkskept pace. He performed countless studies and analysestranslatingthemintowhitepapers that defined the requirements to enhance trainingcapabilities

He interpreted and translated numerous simulationrequirementsthatdrovetheability to train combat system interoperability throughdistributedtrainingacrossthelabs atATRCandLandBasedTestSites

Mr Jeff Noordyk, ATRC’s director of training (DOT), says Norwood was the driving force behind the requirements and specifications that influenced the developmentandinstallationoftheReconfigurable CombatInformationCenterTrainer(RCT), atrainerthatispartoftheDirector,Surface Warfare’s(OPNAVN96)programofrecord, SurfaceTrainingAdvancedVirtualEnvironment-CombatSystems(STAVE-CS),which wasintroducedin2015asameanstoinvest intrainingtechnologies,devices,andfacilities to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, andavailabilityofallsurfacetraining

“Dwayne worked closely with SCSTC’s technical support department, N9, me as DOT Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting DevelopmentCenter[SMWDC]Integrated Air and Missile Defense [IAMD] Division and Surface Training Systems Program Office [PMS 339] to ensure that the RCT would meet training requirements,” Noordyk said. “He provided continuous testing, technicalexpertise,andconfigurationmonitoringoverafive-yearperiodthatresultedin atrainingsystemthatprovidesthehigh-end tactical training needed to build lethality warfighting and tactical proficiency Due to Dwayne’s technical expertise and tirelessefforts,weareprovidingbetter-trained better-qualifiedwarfighterstothefleet.”

InJune2020 Norwoodbecamethedirector of Aegis functional integration/future configuration.

Mrs Amanda Blackman, SCSTC ATRC’s director of training and facilities readiness, first met Norwood while she was still uniform.

“Dwayne and I first worked together while I was a Chief Warrant Officer 3 and instructor at the schoolhouse,” she said. “Everythingheaccomplishedwasguidedby hisdedicationtoourSailors.WhenIbecame agovernmentcivilianandthenassumedmy currentposition,IworkedwithDwayneon a daily basis His technical acumen, unique ability to translate training requirements intosystemcapability,dedicationtomeeting the needs of our warfighters and personal drive has kept ATRC on pace with evolv- ingAegisandfleettacticaltrainingrequirements HewillbegreatlymissedbutIknow Dwayne’s efforts will continue to ensure missionreadinessforyearstocome.”

Norwoodplansonspendingtimeenhancing his tennis game with ambitions of instructingtennis “Iamhonoredandblessedtohaveworked withsomanysubjectmatterexperts,whom I consider good friends, throughout the years,” Norwood said. “I feel very fortunate to have helped shape our future warfighting force I will miss my Aegis family but I amalsoexcitedfortheopportunitiesthatlie aheadformeandmyfamily.

Before his departure, Norwood provided guidancetohisfellowemployees

“Have fun and take everything in stride,” hesaid