Official NAWDC Intelligence Patch - Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center N2 Intelligence Directorate, NAS Fallon Embroidered Patch.
Where targeting knowledge, threat awareness, and aircrew readiness converge before the mission ever leaves the deck.
The Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center, located at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, is the United States Navy's center of excellence for advanced air combat training and tactics development. Within its ten departments, the N2 Intelligence Directorate stands as one of the command's most operationally critical functions. The department provides intelligence support to air wing training at Fallon as well as to fleets and battle groups deployed around the world. Targeting and weapons experts work alongside enlisted intelligence specialists to gather data on potential trouble areas globally, preparing aircrews for every circumstance they may face in combat. The directorate also trains carrier air wing intelligence officers and targeteers, integrating signals intelligence and human intelligence into curricula through Carrier Vehicle Intelligence Center systems. Contingency preparation and post-exercise analysis round out a mission set that directly shapes how naval aviation tactics are refined and disseminated to the fleet. NAWDC itself was renamed from the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center in June 2015 and carries the lineage of TOPGUN, Strike University, and TOPDOME under one command. An Intelligence patch from this command marks a specific, serious function inside the Navy's most demanding aviation training environment.
Perfect For: Navy intelligence officers, carrier air wing targeteers, NAWDC alumni, NAS Fallon veterans, naval aviation historians, intelligence community collectors, shadow box displays, cruise book tributes, challenge coin and patch boards, and anyone building a unit-history collection around the people who prepare aircrews with the threat knowledge they need before a single aircraft launches. It is especially meaningful for families and supporters of intelligence professionals whose work happens behind the scenes but shapes every strike, every debrief, and every lesson carried back to the fleet.
NAWDC Intelligence heritage, stitched for the analysts, targeteers, and specialists who make the mission possible.