To strengthen its organic industrial base -- made up of government-owned industrial centers -- the Navy has invested $345 million across 200 various projects at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division in Maryland. Ahead of Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing, these investments were laid out in Assistant Navy Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition Nickolas Guertin’s written testimony . The industrial base’s “safety and readiness” at Indian Head is being improved, his statement read, with a goal...