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“Lapse in Appropriations: The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30, 2025. Military personnel will continue in normal duty status, without pay, until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.” Please reference resources link for more information: https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4319360/fy26-lapse-of-appropriations-department-of-the-navy-resources-for-sailors-marin/


Established in 2012, the Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC), headquartered at Naval Base Ventura County, California, is a command of more than 1,200 dedicated federal civilian employees, contractors, and military personnel providing research, development, test, and evaluation, and in-service engineering to deliver specialized facility and expeditionary solutions to the warfighter. As NAVFAC’s only warfare center, our engineers, scientists, analysts, logisticians, contract specialists, and other professional personnel provide technology and unique, agile solutions for the warfighter that specifically focus on expeditionary, oceans, and shore needs from enduring bases to forward deployed expeditionary locations.

In 2017, NAVFAC EXWC became a Defense Department Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory. 

 

MISSION

Provide research, development, testing and evaluation, in-service engineering, and life-cycle management for shore, oceans, and expeditionary domains.

VISION

Accelerate innovation to enable fleet lethality at sea and ashore.

MOTTO

ANTICIPATE • INNOVATE • ACCELERATE

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