This year's Naval Innovative Science and Engineering Technical Exchange Meeting included 136 poster sessions focused on projects aimed at maintaining the U.S. Navy’s decisive technical advantage in its capabilities. This has been a year of firsts for the annual NISE TEM, held at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, Sept. 12-14. - This year's Naval Innovative Science and Engineering Technical Exchange Meeting included 136 poster sessions focused on projects aimed at maintaining the U.S. Navy’s decisive technical advantage in its capabilities. This has been a year of firsts for the annual NISE TEM, held at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, Sept. 12-14.

Cmdr. James Barclay, officer in charge of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, Detachment Pacific, was promoted during a ceremony on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Aug. 25, 2023. - Cmdr. James Barclay, officer in charge of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, Detachment Pacific, was promoted during a ceremony on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Aug. 25, 2023. Barclay is the first limited duty officer in the submarine ordnance community to be spot-promoted to the rank of commander.

Navy commands provide STEM kits for community during pandemic - 201013-N-MV201-002 KEYPORT, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2020) - Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics kits, assembled by U.S. Navy employees, are ready to be distributed to local schools and families. The STEM Kit program has been ongoing for about 13 years. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport (Keyport, Washington) and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (Bremerton, Washington) employees were innovative in providing kits by hosting pickup and virtual events aimed at keeping students excited about learning. (U.S. Navy photo by Shayna Gosney/Released)

Jose Ruiz, a manufacturing engineer with the Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication Technology Division at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport, manufactures personal protective equipment (PPE) with additive manufacturing technology. - 200422-N-MV201-003 KEYPORT, Wash. (Apr. 22, 2020) - Jose Ruiz, a manufacturing engineer with the Rapid Prototyping and Fabrication Technology Division at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport, manufactures personal protective equipment (PPE) with additive manufacturing technology. NUWC Keyport has been open for business during the pandemic through measures designed to protect the health and safety of the workforce such as reconfiguring the workspace to provide greater distance between stations and the use of face masks when workers must be in close proximity to one another.

The Autonomous Dry Dock Survey Robot, or ADDS, provides the Navy with significant cost savings, while ensuring the ability to monitor safe environments within the nation’s shipyard facilities. - The Autonomous Dry Dock Survey Robot, or ADDS, provides the Navy with significant cost savings, while ensuring the ability to monitor safe environments within the nation’s shipyard facilities.

Lead scientists and engineers from Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Center Divisions pose for a photo as a representation of a collaborative and innovative effort in development of modular, inexpensive unmanned systems collectively known as the “microSwarm Family of Systems,” or “µFOS." - Lead scientists and engineers from Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Center Divisions pose for a photo as a representation of a collaborative and innovative effort in development of modular, inexpensive unmanned systems collectively known as the “microSwarm Family of Systems,” or “µFOS." The µFOS project seeks to reduce cost and manufacturing complexity in unmanned vehicle systems while maintaining performance and integrating the land, sea, and air domains through modular open architecture based command and control. Back row, pictured from left to right: Jared Roberts (SERCO Inc., formerly Alion Sciences), Jeremy Hankins (Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD)), Dr. Cameron Matthews (NSWC PCD), Dr. Patrick Walters (NSWC PCD), Mr. Dave Malphurs (NSWC PCD), Connor McCoy-Mickelson (NSWC PCD).Front row, pictured from left to right: Ben Gordon (NSWC Carderock), Chris Nunes (NSWC Carderock), and Nick Christie (Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport).