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Carderock Division Honors Outstanding Employees at Annual Command Award Ceremony
Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division’s Commanding Officer, Capt. Chris Matassa (left), and Acting Technical Director, Dr. Paul Shang (right), present Joe Walther with a Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award at an annual Command Awards Ceremony in West Bethesda, Md. on April 29, 2025. Carderock, the Navy's innovation and ship design powerhouse, headquartered in West Bethesda, Maryland, is a world-class research and development facility specializing in critical ship design components. Carderock uses state-of-the-art facilities, like the David Taylor Model Basin, to create small-scale models and evaluate next-generation surface ships and underwater vessels, ensuring they are future-proof, agile, and equipped to dominate the maritime environment. (U.S. Navy photo by Corum Byers)
April 30, 2025 - CARDEROCK, Md. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, recognized employees for their outstanding contributions to the workforce in 2024 during a Command Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in West...
NSWC Crane team embraces new technology that streamlines user-friendly tools for the workforce
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April 28, 2025 - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) team took a previously manually-intensive procedure and produced a more effective and user-friendly process for its...
NSWC PCD Administrative Professionals Day Highlight - Richard Gillis
Richard Gillis, NSWC PCD Integrated Product Support (ILS) Division administrative assistant, supports the Integrated Logistics Division. He was selected to represent NSWC PCD for the NAVSEA 2025 National Administrative Professionals Day highlight.
April 23, 2025 - Richard Gillis serves as the Integrated Product Support (ILS) Division Administrative Assistant for the Integrated Logistics Division (S40) at NSWC Panama City Division.Following a traditional Navy family lineage and...
Australian Department of Defence air vice-marshal visits NUWC Division Newport for tours, briefings
Air Vice-Marshall Gerry van Leeuwen (from left), head of Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Systems for the Department of Defence of Australia, and his staff members listen as Tony Paolero, head of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Sensors and Arrays Division of the Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, details the work done in the Acoustic Pressure Tank Facility during a visit to Division Newport on April 7, 2025. The facility provides acoustic testing over a wide range of simulated ocean environments for the Navy, industry, academia and international partners. The U.S. and Australia navies have a long-standing military relationship that continues to grow through collaboration.
April 22, 2025 - The U.S. and Australia have a long-standing military relationship that only continues to grow through collaboration. In helping to bolster that relationship, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport on April 7...
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NSWC Carderock
Ship Design and Engineering

NSWC Corona
Analytics and Data Driven Performance Assessments

NSWC Crane
Electromagnetic Warfare, Expeditionary Warfare Systems and Strategic Systems Components

NSWC Dahlgren
Surface Ship Weapons System Development and Integration

NSWC Indian Head
Energetics and EOD Technologies

NUWC Keyport
Sustaining Undersea Warfare Systems and Vehicles

NUWC Newport
Undersea, Subsea, and Seabed Warfare Weapons Systems Development and Integration

NSWC Panama City
Mine Warfare and Littoral Warfare Systems

NSWC Philadelphia
Surface and Undersea Machinery, Power, Controls, and Auxiliary Ship Systems

NSWC Port Hueneme
Integrated Logistics and Test and Evaluation for Surface Warfare Combat Systems

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