Mylan To won the Managerial Leadership in Government Award at the 2017 Women of Color STEM Conference. Mylan oversaw personnel working on the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship Mission Module Program. Her skills as a leader, role model, and innovator earned her the respect of her peers.

Mylan began her career in 1987 as a junior engineer. She worked on projects such as the SPY radar and critical components of the premier Aegis Combat System onboard Navy cruisers and destroyers. As a leader in the Sensor System Branch, she guided engineers and technicians in testing variants and improvements to the SPY radar and the ACS. Because of her expertise, Mylan soon became the AEGIS Baseline Manager, providing guidance and direction to a team of more than 125 Navy personnel. Her leadership resulted in the successful deployment of naval ships.

More recently, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, announced that more than 30 high school students graduated from the warfare center's fall 2022 Pre-Engineering Program — the biggest cohort for the program. The Dec. 13 ceremony in Port Hueneme culminated in a 12-week career exploration course in which students learned from real-life naval engineers and gained hands-on experience.

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division is a command located at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, California, and is a component of the U.S. Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). In addition to its primary location at Port Hueneme, the division operates detachments at White Sands, New Mexico; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Louisville, Kentucky.

In related news, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division engineers partnered with the Girl Scouts last summer to help teach about career opportunities in busting cybercrime. According to the center, at least a dozen graduates from California State University, San Bernardino’s Cybersecurity Center, now employees at the Port Hueneme Division, mentored girls and young women to stimulate interest in cyber-related careers.

Junior professionals from the warfare center led workshops for 100 Girl Scouts who participated in Cal State San Bernardino’s GenCyber week 2022. The event is designed to mentor sixth through 12th grade Girl Scouts searching for a cybersecurity career and a university.

Four engineers taught workshops as part of five days of activities held during GenCyber week. Other activities included flying drones, teaching cybersecurity fundamentals, and climbing ropes and rocks.

A cybersecurity engineer at the warfare center who graduated in 2019 with a degree in cybersecurity from Cal State San Bernardino told a Girl Scouts during the workshops what the center has to offer. She was joined by other employees who work in cybersecurity engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer engineering. The engineers discussed everything from the starting pay for engineers to internship opportunities at the command. The engineers also touched on some of the basics of cybersecurity and its national security importance.

One of the engineers used a 3D printer from the command to manufacture plastic tokens to represent pillars of the cybersecurity field, such as firewalls, routers, phone switches, and other elements. The engineers also brought along a Cyber Hunter game for the girls to play. The board game's goal involved trying to find a hacker group.

A slide presentation explained that Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, is one of eight surface warfare sites and two undersea warfare sites overseen by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the largest of the Navy’s systems commands.

Cal State San Bernardino’s mentoring program attracted national attention six years ago after a Department of Homeland Security official spotlighted the program on a broadcast news segment.

After the DHS plug on television — the GenCyber program grew to over 300 similar boot camps, with the one at Cal State San Bernardino still listed as the largest to be funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Together, the NSA and NSF have bootstrapped Cal State San Bernardino with roughly $100,000 annually in grant money to fund GenCyber week.

Along with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, and NAVSEA, other organizations to participate in the GenCyber week included the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab, Bank of America, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, IBM, Meta Platforms Inc., Mitre, Northrop Grumman, and Southwest Airlines Co.