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

NAVSEA Discovery Team Advances Shipyard Maintenance Innovation
James Calverley, a senior mechanical engineer at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF), demonstrates the auto-hydrolance condenser cleaning robot to Rear Adm. Jason Lloyd, then-chief engineer (CHENG) of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 05. The robot decreases condenser cleaning operations by weeks, removes human workers from exposure to dangerous high-pressure water jets, and improves the quality and consistency of condenser tube cleaning. Through the Discovery Team and the Engineering Intervention Board, this innovation from PSNS & IMF was successfully expanded to Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) and is now being adapted for submarine maintenance. (U.S. Navy Photo by Scott Hansen)
May 28, 2026 - The Naval Sea Systems (NAVSEA) Discovery Team is helping drive innovation across the Navy’s public shipyards by identifying technologies and process improvements designed to increase the operational availability of ships and...

NSWC IHD COMSEC Team Reduce Software Upgrade Time Almost 90% Using CHIMERA, Win DON Information Superiority Excellence Award, NAVIFOR Big Ideas Challenge
NSWC IHD’s COMSEC team improved equipment upgrade efficiency through implementing CHIMERA, reducing overall device upgrade time at the command by 89% and enabling nine devices to be updated in the same amount of time it previously took to complete one. Their innovation was recently acknowledged when the team was honored with two awards: DON Information Superiority Excellence Award for Innovation, presented May 11 at the 2026 DON Digital Warfighting Symposium East in Norfolk, Virginia; and the Advancing IW. Warfighting Capabilities category of the NAVINFOR BIC. (U.S. Navy photo by Matt Poynor)
May 27, 2026 - The Communications Security (COMSEC) team at Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) were recently honored with two awards: the Department of the Navy’s (DON) Information Superiority Excellence Award for...

Navy Leaders Emphasize Speed and a Unified Digital Ecosystem at the 2026 Digital Warfighting Symposium
Capt. Chris Matassa, commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, discusses the implications of maritime warfare dominance with fellow Warfare Centers leaders during a panel session of the Department of the Navy Digital Warfighting Symposium East 2026 in Norfolk, Va., on May 12. Moderated by Dr. Julie Stark, director of the Navy’s Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridge, the panel deep dived into driving the future of information warfare, how industry and academia can help, and the resources required to accomplish information dominance. From left: Stark; Matassa; Nigel Thijs, technical director of NSWC Philadelphia; Stephen O’Grady, deputy technical director from Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport; and David Smoak, chief engineer from Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic.
May 27, 2026 - Navy leaders joined academia and industry representatives at the Department of the Navy Digital Warfighting Symposium 2026 from May 11-14 in Norfolk. The Navy-focused event, held in conjunction with the Armed Forces...

NUWC Division Newport hosts Memorial Day ceremony honoring 34 deaths in the line of duty
Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Deputy Technical Director Steve O’Grady (from left) and Commanding Officer Capt. Kevin Behm place a wreath in front of the command marker during a Memorial Day ceremony held on May 21, 2026. The memorial contains the names of the 34 employees who died in the line of duty since the warfare center was founded in 1869.
May 22, 2026 - On the morning of Oct. 25, 1941, Alexander MacLellan Jr., a research expert at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, sat in the passenger seat of a plane set to perform tests on a torpedo release mechanism. Such flights had...

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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