Southeast Regional Maintenance Center

USS Porter Conducts First SeaRAM Firing from DDG
March 9, 2016 — ATLANTIC OCEAN - The sailors of USS Porter (DDG 78), a guided missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain, successfully completed a live-fire test from a SeaRAM missile system March 4... MORE

160304-N-AL577-001 ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 4, 2016) SeaRAM, a new system for guided-missile destroyers, is test fired March 4, 2016 from the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78). Porter is forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, and is preparing for deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

New prototype enhances ship-testing capability at NSWC Carderock Division
March 8, 2016 — A new1,000-pound inertial actuator, the AMA1000, is giving engineers at NavalSurface Warfare Center,... MORE

Inside NSWC Carderock Division’s Disruptive Technologies Lab
March 8, 2016 — TheU.S. Navy faces innumerable obstacles every day as it carries out its mission.Scientists and... MORE

A concept sketch shows the original exoskeleton prototype, which was tested at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in fiscal year 2011. The sketch shows the first naval adaption of an externally powered exoskeleton with a commercially available motion-stabilizing arm attachment and how it could be used in a naval shipyard work setting. (U.S. Navy illustration by Michael White/Released)

USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) Completes Builder's Trials
March 7, 2016 — PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The Navy's future amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha (LPD 26) successfully completed Builder's Trials March 4... MORE

GULF OF MEXICO - The Navy's future amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha (LPD 26) successfully completed Builder's Trials March 4. The principal mission of LPD 17 San Antonio class ships is to deploy combat and support elements of Marine Expeditionary Units and Brigades. With the capability of transporting and debarking air cushion or conventional landing craft and augmented by helicopters or MV-22 vertical take-off and landing aircraft, these ships support amphibious assault, special operations, and expeditionary warfare missions. (Photo courtesy of HII)

Navy successfully tests new SM-6 capability
March 3, 2016 — PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii -- The Navy successfully conducted a demonstration of the surface-to-air STANDARD Missile-6 Block I (SM-6 Blk I) from USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) off the Hawaiian coast Jan. 18... MORE

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