6 NEWPORT, R.I. – Innovation and forward thinking have always been a part of the way Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport engineer Chris Capuano operates. Recently, he has gotten to see how those concepts work from a slightly different perspective. Since August 2020, Capuano, an employee in Division Newport’s Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, has been on a one-year rotational assignment with NavalX, the Department of Navy (DON) workforce super-connector that is focused on scaling non-traditional agility methods across the DON workforce. “It’s always good to have new experiences and get new perspectives, especially in an organization as large as the Navy,” Capuano said. “At NUWC, you get exposed to one slice of the pie. NUWC was my first job out of college and, being there for five years, I got comfortable with the way things are done and the workforce culture.