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Highlighting the critical role that NUWC Division Newport plays in supporting the U.S. Navy fleet.

NUWC Division Newport

NEWPORT, RI - NUWC Division Newport, one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, is the Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace.

In-Service Engineering Support

WHAT WE DO MATTERS: In-service engineering and at-sea testing to advance U.S. Navy systems are some of the ways NUWC Division Newport supports the fleet.

UUV Launch and Recovery

WHAT WE DO MATTERS: Division Newport’s Engineering and Diving Support Unit provided launch and recovery support for an LDUUV at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility in 2022.

Award-Winning Scientists and Engineers

The AN/BYG-1 Combat Control VTwin Team won the 2020 Assistant Secretary of the Navy RD&A Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers Award.

Oculus Rift glasses in the virtual world

NEWPORT, RI - A NUWC Division Newport employee demonstrates Oculus Rift glasses in the virtual world.

Division Newport's New Professional Network

NEWPORT, RI - A group of employees known as the New Professional Network hosts several events to help new hires meet, socialize, and learn about Division Newport.

NUWC Division Newport

Learn more about career opportunities at NUWC Division Newport by visiting:

http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Newport/Career-Opportunities/

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NUWC Newport Headlines

NUWC Division Newport engineers assist robotics team at FIRST World Championship

The Aquidneck Island Robotics (AIR) FIRST Robotics Competition Team 78, assisted by Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport engineers, placed fifth overall at the FIRST World Championship held April 17-20, 2024, in Houston, Texas. Also known as AIR Strike, the community-based team is comprised of 26 students from 15 communities in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

May 1, 2024 - Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport engineers assisted the Aquidneck Island Robotics (AIR) FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 78, also known as AIR Strike, win its division and place fifth overall at the...

NUWC Division Newport employees win National Defense Industrial Association undersea warfare awards

Naval Undersea Wafare Center Division Newport’s Chief Technology Officer Dr. Jason Gomez recently won the 2024 National Defense Industrial Association Undersea Warfare Division’s Vice Adm. Charles B. Martell-David Bushnell Award for his outstanding achievements and scientific research and development in the field of antisubmarine warfare and undersea warfare technology systems. Gomez has been with Division Newport for 31 years.

April 22, 2024 - Dr. Jason Gomez, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s chief technology officer, and Dr. Robert Koch, a senior technologist in the Chief Technology Office, each recently received a 2024 National Defense...

NUWC Division Newport’s Federal Women’s Program hosts panel for Women’s History Month

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Federal Women’s Program (FWP) held a panel discussion in honor of Women’s History Month on March 26, 2024, that was broadcast throughout the Naval Sea Systems Command enterprise. The panel included Susan Balcirak (from left), supervisory engineer and FWP lead, who organized the event; Norma Lopez, head, Combat Systems Trainers Branch of the Combat Systems Department; Alison Wicks, head, Acquisition Policy and Oversight Division, Contracts Department; Sally Sutherland-Pietrzak, NUWC Headquarters, director of the Naval Engineering Education Consortium for Naval Sea Systems Command; Jackeline “Jackie” Diapis, engineer, USW Weapons, Vehicles and Defensive Systems Department; and Poonam Aggarwal, supervisory engineer, Undersea Warfare Platforms and Payload Integration Department.

April 10, 2024 - The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Federal Women’s Program celebrated Women’s History Month with a panel discussion by five female employees on March 26 that focused on insights and experiences as...

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard employees visit NUWC Division Newport for tours, briefings

Mark Aiksnoras of Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare Electromagnetic Systems Department gives a tour to a submarine maintenance crew from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, on March 20, 2024. Thirty-two shipyard supervisors visited Division Newport for a weeklong team-building experience in preparation for maintenance and modernization during a dry-docking of the Virginia-class submarine USS Washington (SSN-787).

April 9, 2024 - A crew from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, visited the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport on March 20 to learn more about the operations at the warfare center and how collaborations...

Two NUWC Division Newport employees receive award from Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems

Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport employee Nathan Brinker, director of Integrated Warfare Undersea Systems 5E Technical, recently won a Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Team Excellence Award for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023. This award recognizes individuals and teams whose combined efforts have yielded significant benefits for PEO IWS.

April 4, 2024 - Two Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport employees in the Undersea Warfare Combat Systems Department recently received a Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) Team Excellence Award for...

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NUWC Division Newport
1176 Howell St.
Newport, RI 02841

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