Welcome to NAVSEA

NAVSEA maintains its commitment to the public and the fleet, continually translating warfighting requirements into combat capability to enable our nation and its partners to project presence in peace, power in war, and maritime access at all times. With the delivery of over 20 new ship classes of battle force ships over the past five decades, NAVSEA has been the powerful “Force Behind the Fleet.” 

NAVSEA Mission

We design, build, deliver, and maintain ships, submarines and systems reliably, on-time and on-cost for the United States Navy.

NAVSEA Vision    

Expand the Advantage

For as long as we’ve been a Nation, our Navy has played a key role in protecting the world’s maritime system. Today, traditional and non-traditional forces threaten our safety both at home and abroad. Our technical and tactical advantage over our adversaries is being challenged as technology advances at a rapid pace. Every campaign requires a clearly stated and shared objective and vision. The overarching objective and vision of the NAVSEA Campaign is to expand the U.S. Navy’s maritime advantage over our adversaries through our people, products, and services.

 

NEWS

NSWC Crane engineering intern makes tangible impact to the Fleet
Riya Salian, an NSWC Crane intern, onboard the USS Nimitz (CNV-68), a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Aug. 6, 2026 - Before starting her summer internship at a Navy lab, Riya Salian helped lead The Ohio State University Pistol Team to its sixth consecutive national championship.Now, heading into her senior year studying Computer Science and...

Small Relieves Downey as Commander Naval Sea Systems Command
Vice Adm. James P. Downey, commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Portfolio Acquisition Executive Industrial Operations (PAE IO) (left) stands at attention with Capt. Daniel L. Mode, NAVSEA Chaplain on stage at a change of command and change of office ceremony on Aug. 6, at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. Downey was relieved of his dual-hatted role as commander, NAVSEA by Rear Adm. Peter Small and as PAE IO by  Rear Adm. Todd Weeks. (US. Navy photo by Matthew Rakola)
Aug. 6, 2026 - Vice Adm. James P. Downey was relieved of his dual-hatted role as Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) by Rear Adm. Pete Small and as Portfolio Acquisition Executive Industrial Operations (PAE IO) by Rear Adm. Todd...

On Remote Wake Island, Navy’s White Sands Team Launches Its Biggest Sounding Rocket to Test Plasma Energy Conversion in Space
A sounding rocket towers over a launch site on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean ahead of the Feb. 12 Space Measurement of a Rocket-released Turbulence (SMART) mission, which the Naval Research Laboratory managed. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment launched the rocket — its first ever with four stages — which soared into low Earth orbit and deployed an experiment to test plasma conversion in space. (Image from video courtesy of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Released)
Aug. 4, 2026 - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD)’s White Sands Detachment (WSD) recently hit a high mark in its suborbital vehicles capabilities, launching its biggest sounding rocket for an experiment to...

Underway Replenishment Veteran Dan Byrd Draws on Navy Experience, Shop Skills to Mentor Students in Robotics
Dan Byrd (left), Underway Replenishment Test Site manager at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division in California and a volunteer robotics mentor, poses for a photo with Velma Lomax, a regional director with For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics, as he receives an award at a FIRST Robotics regional competition at Fathomwerx Lab in the Port of Hueneme in March 2025. (Photo courtesy of Dan Byrd)
Aug. 4, 2026 - Dan Byrd’s venture into robotics mentoring began in 2018 with a late-night phone call from his son Robert, whose high school team needed a hand readying its robot for a fast-approaching competition: “Dad, can you help?”Byrd...

A New Strategy for High-Performance Computing at Carderock 

When Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock’s engineers are modeling failure conditions, simulating acoustics or optimizing hydrodynamics, they need massive amounts of data to be processed and computing power to do it.  Fortunately, Carderock...


 


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