About NOSSA
The Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Activity (NOSSA/SEA-00VW) is a team of highly technical and talented active duty military, reservists and civilian personnel who manage all aspects of the Navy and Marine Corps explosives safety  and ordnance environmental programs. NOSSA is located in Indian Head, Maryland and has two Detachments one located in Norfolk, Virginia and the other in San Diego, California. As the Chief of Naval Operations technical authority for Explosives Safety, NOSSA provides explosives safety oversight from concept development, production and deployment, to demilitarization.  NOSSA also has oversight of explosives security policy, ordnance environmental matters, insensitive munitions and NAVSEA weapons and ordnance quality evaluation. In addition, NOSSA provides technical oversight through the conduct of  explosives safety inspections and technical support onboard ships and ashore. NOSSA is also the technical authority for all technical plans and policies associated with weapons systems safety, including software safety across the warfare disciplines.

The five Navy Explosives Safety Program component programs are:
  • DoN Explosives  Safety,
  • Weapon System Safety and Joint Programs,
  • Navy Ordnance Environmental Support,
  • Weapons Assessment, and
  • Shipboard Weapons Integration.


Mission: Provide Ordnance Safety for The Naval Enterprise

NOSSA is the Naval weapons and explosives safety technical authority; providing expertise, policy, oversight and procedures. These responsibilities span the lifecycle of weapons systems and explosives, including ordnance environmental support. The workforce identifies mitigation measures and communicates risks to sustain Joint combat capability.

  Commanding Officer  
   


CAPT Jason A. Gilbert, USN


  Executive Director  
   


Ms. Karen S. Burrows

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