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

From Innovation Challenge to internship: NSWC Dahlgren Division inspires high school student’s mechatronics journey
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Eighteen-year-old Joseph Shanklin, West Moreland High School graduate, participated in the NSWCDD Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program with a team that created software for an all-terrain autonomous rover with object detection and manual override capability. Shanklin stands with the project at the NSWCDD Poster Session July 30 where they showcased their work at the University of Mary Washington’s Dahlgren Campus. (Jennifer Erickson/NSWCDD Photo)
Aug. 14, 2026 - When Joseph Shanklin’s team won second place in the 2024 Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division High School Innovation Challenge, he knew he wanted to study mechatronics. As a sophomore at Westmoreland High School at...

NSWCDD team gives back to alma mater through project
Left, Joseph Lee and English Grey of the High Power Microwave (HPM) Weapon Systems Integration Division at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division stand beside an experimental HPM source which functions as a testbed for HPM technologies. Lee and Grey, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) alumni, teamed up to co-mentor four VCU seniors for a project that highlighted HPM. (Jennifer Erickson/NSWCDD Photo)
Aug. 14, 2026 - Grey English, a mechanical engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), cares about his alma mater – Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).He is among 180 VCU alumni at NSWCDD, according to Brooke...

NSWCPD Supports RIMPAC 2026 Through Power Sensing, Data Collection and Navigation Resilience Efforts
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) returns to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate in the final events of Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2026, July 28, 2026. Thirty nations, 30 ships, five submarines, 15 national land forces, more than 190 aircraft and more than 30,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 24 to July 31. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2026 is the 30th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Mark Bergado)
Aug. 10, 2026 - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) supported exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2026 through technical efforts focused on power sensing, operational energy, data collection, and navigation-system...

NSWC Indian Head Division Makes History with First-Ever Re-grained Mk 70 Solid Rocket Motor Static Firing
Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) conducted the first-ever static firing of a fully loaded, re-grained Mk 70 solid rocket motor (SRM) at the command’s manufacturing facilities in Indian Head, Md., August 5. The demonstration is a significant step toward increasing the command’s production capacity of large SRMs for national defense programs. The command’s Mk 70 Production Using Salvaged Hardware program reuses components from Mk 12 Terrier boosters to produce certified Mk 70 boosters for fleet readiness and training requirements.
Aug. 10, 2026 - Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) conducted the first-ever static firing of a fully loaded, re-grained Mk 70 solid rocket motor (SRM) at the command’s manufacturing facilities in Indian Head,...

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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