Cape Canaveral Military Officers Association Hosts Naval Ordnance Test Unit Commander Capt. Jason Schneider

U.S. Navy's Naval Ordnance Test Unit is located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Military Officers Association of America Cape Canaveral Chapter recently hosted guest speaker U.S. Navy Captain Jason Schneider, who is the Commanding Officer of the Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU).

The U.S. Navy’s Naval Ordnance Test Unit is located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

As a major shore command led by a Navy captain, NOTU was created in 1950 and initially directed almost all of its efforts toward the development and subsequent support of the submarine-launched Fleet Ballistic Missile program and surface ships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, foreign navies and assets of the Military Sealift Command.

Capt. Schneider is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned Master’s degrees from George Washington University and the US Naval War College. He qualified in submarines as a junior and Executive Officer aboard several nuclear submarines.

Ashore, he served as the Submarine SONAR Sensors Team Lead and Operational Test Director on the staff of Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force; as a legislative fellow on the staff of Senator Jack Reed; as a capability developer at U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM); and as Commander, Submarine Forces Atlantic.

NOTU provides a key component of the nation’s strategic nuclear deterrence mission and supports naval activity above, at, and below the surface of the sea. The command has operated for over 65 years, supporting strategic deterrence and systems production for the Navy through both ground-based and missile flight-testing and support.

Every generation of the submarine-launched ballistic missile system – Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident – has been conducted at the NOTU facility, from the design and development phase all the way through sustainment and operational support.

NOTU’s Strategic Weapons System Ashore Facility supports testing for current OHIO-class submarines, as well as future engineering needs for systems pertaining to COLOMBIA-class submarines, which is the Navy’s most important acquisition priority today.

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