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Navy-Marine Corps-Army Engineers Win Top Awards for Energy Harvesting Innovation
March 10, 2016 — DAHLGREN,Va. (March 9, 2016) - Bionic power, solar panels, and the kinetic transducingLightning... MORE

Marine Capt. Anthony Ripley, science and technology lead at the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office, wears the Joint Infantry Company Prototype (JIC-P) system featuring bionic and solar power that enables Marines and Soldiers to patrol longer without resupply. Flanking Ripley are JIC-P lead engineers Sara Lohmann, holding the solar panel, and Eric South, who holds the vest power manager. The Business Intelligence Group (BIG) recently selected JIC-P for the 2016 BIG Innovation Award. BIG awardees are recognized for innovations that are making major impacts in today’s world. Meanwhile, 3,000 business leaders selected the project as a "best of the best" finalist for the 2016 Edison Awards, a program that honors the most innovative new products, services, and business leaders across the globe. Award winners will be announced and ranked on April 21 at the Edison Awards Annual Gala in New York City.

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)

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