Warfare Centers

Our vision is to be the Navy's trusted partner for identifying and providing innovative, cost -effective technical solutions to the Warfighter. We will be responsive to the Navy Enterprises, the Joint Force and national requirements, while partnering with industry, other DoD laboratories, and academia.

Rear Admiral Peter D. Small
Commander, Naval Surface
and Undersea Warfare Centers

Peter C. Reddy, SES
Executive Director Naval Surface
and Undersea Warfare Centers

Navy’s White Sands Team Taps Deep Rocket Expertise to Deliver Low-Cost Targets That Prep Fleet for New Threats

Two Short Range Ballistic Missile T4-G targets are positioned on launchers for the Missile Defense Agency’s Flight Mission Stellar Medusa, known as FTM-33, at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands in Kauai, Hawaii, in July 2021. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment built and launched the targets. (Photo courtesy of Pacific Missile Range Facility)

Aug. 27, 2026 - Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD)’s White Sands Detachment (WSD) launches simulated threats at U.S. Navy ships before adversaries can fire the real thing at them.The New Mexico-based detachment,...

Carderock MASS Team Takes Rapid Manufacturing to the Warfighter at Valiant Shield 26

(OKINAWA, Japan) — Engineers from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Manufacturing Attritable Systems at Scale (MASS) team provide coxswain operational USV training for III MEF Marines at Valiant Shield 26 in July 2026. During the exercise, Carderock engineers established a manufacturing lab and trained Marines to manufacture 3- and 7-meter Foam Raiding Craft (FRC) platforms, expanding their experience from production through operation.

Aug. 27, 2026 - During exercise Valiant Shield 26, Carderock’s Manufacturing Attritable Systems at Scale (MASS) team worked alongside Marines with Intermediate Repair Company, 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, to...

With Three Patents Under His Belt, Kvryan Is Ready to Share His Expertise on the Process

From left: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division then-Commanding Officer Capt. Tony Holmes stands onstage with Additive Manufacturing and Corrosion Lead Armen Kvryan and Technical Director Jeff Koe on June 25 as Kvryan is presented with plaques officially acknowledging his patents, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Holmes retired July 17. (U.S. Navy photo by Eric Parsons)

Aug. 26, 2026 - Armen Kvryan, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) corrosion and additive manufacturing lead, is considered an excellent example of how an idea can become an official patent that ultimately could...

SSEP Students Turn Classroom Design into Hands-On Engineering at Carderock

Collin Morr, left, Brianna Ellis and Zoey Shepard observe their senior capstone model in the David Taylor Model Basin at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. Through the STEM Student Employment Program (SSEP), the Florida Institute of Technology students designed, fabricated and tested the model while working alongside Carderock engineers.

Aug. 26, 2026 - Three Florida Institute of Technology students spent their summer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division chasing a number: 34%. That’s how much additional range their destroyer hull design needed to achieve,...

U.S. Navy and Indiana National Guard unveil nation’s first sled track capability to accelerate defense innovation

Pictured left to right: Nancy Maloy, NSWC Crane Platform Protection & Countermeasures Technologies Division Manager, Marty Terry, NSWC Crane Countermeasures Assessment Branch Manager, Brigadier General Cathy Eaken, Congresswoman Erin Houchin, Dr. Angela Lewis (SES), Technical Director, NSWC Crane, COL Russell “Bubba” Strange, COL Daniel Bell, and Command Sgt Maj. Brad Simmons at the ribbon cutting for the nation’s first ground-based Sled Track Facility at Camp Atterbury in Indiana.

Aug. 18, 2026 - The U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Indiana National Guard unveiled the nation’s first ground-based Sled Track Facility, a high-speed test site that replicates advanced flight...

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