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Navy Day at New Bedford Whaling Museum

Division Newport will co-host New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Navy Day on March 22

What We Do Matters

Highlighting the critical role that NUWC Division Newport plays in supporting the U.S. Navy fleet.

NUWC Division Newport

NEWPORT, RI - NUWC Division Newport, one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, is the Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support center for submarine warfare systems and many other systems associated with the undersea battlespace.

In-Service Engineering Support

WHAT WE DO MATTERS: In-service engineering and at-sea testing to advance U.S. Navy systems are some of the ways NUWC Division Newport supports the fleet.

UUV Launch and Recovery

WHAT WE DO MATTERS: Division Newport’s Engineering and Diving Support Unit provided launch and recovery support for an LDUUV at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility in 2022.

Award-Winning Scientists and Engineers

The AN/BYG-1 Combat Control VTwin Team won the 2020 Assistant Secretary of the Navy RD&A Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers Award.

Oculus Rift glasses in the virtual world

NEWPORT, RI - A NUWC Division Newport employee demonstrates Oculus Rift glasses in the virtual world.

Division Newport's New Professional Network

NEWPORT, RI - A group of employees known as the New Professional Network hosts several events to help new hires meet, socialize, and learn about Division Newport.

NUWC Division Newport

Learn more about career opportunities at NUWC Division Newport by visiting:

http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NUWC-Newport/Career-Opportunities/

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Stephen O’Grady selected as NUWC Division Newport’s deputy technical director

Stephen O’Grady was recently selected as the deputy technical director for technical excellence at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport. Formerly the director of technology and strategy for the Undersea Warfare Combat Systems Department, O’Grady has 35 years of experience in the undersea warfare domain.

March 14, 2025 - With over three decades of experience in the undersea warfare domain, Stephen O’Grady, of East Providence, Rhode Island, has been selected as the next deputy technical director for technical excellence at the Naval Undersea...

NUWC Division Newport will co-host New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Navy Day on March 22

Navy Day at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, hosted with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the museum located at 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Admission to the museum on Navy Day is free for all valid Department of Defense identification card holders and veterans and their families.

March 3, 2025 - The 2025 edition of Navy Day at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, hosted in conjunction with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, will be held March 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the museum located at 18...

1924 time capsule captures Navy presence in Newport a century ago

A glass time capsule from 1924 containing naval history from Newport, Rhode Island, was opened by Naval War College Museum staff during an event held at the Newport Public Library on Jan. 24, 2025. Items of note included a small hunk of wood taken from the plane that completed the first commercial flight from New York to Newport; and sawdust from the USS Lawrence, the flagship of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry that served in the War of 1812 and whose battle flag held the words “Don't Give Up the Ship.” These were the last words uttered by crewmate Capt. James Lawrence, a friend of Perry's who died during the Battle of Chesapeake and Shannon in 1813.

Feb. 14, 2025 - By 1924, the Naval Torpedo Station on Goat Island in Rhode Island, a predecessor organization of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport established in 1869, employed just over 1,000 civilians for the...

NUWC Division Newport volunteers encourage interest in STEM at school science fairs

Dr. Erin Gauch (left), deputy head of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare Combat Systems Department, listens to a Portsmouth High School student discuss her project during a science fair held at the Rhode Island school held on Jan. 14, 2025. Dr. Gauch was one of several Division Newport employees to serve as a science fair judge to encourage an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at schools.

Feb. 6, 2025 - Before becoming deputy head of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare (USW) Combat Systems Department, Dr. Erin Gauch was a member of a high school robotics team that was mentored by...

NUWC Division Newport’s AUTEC, US government donate $50,000 in school supplies to Andros Island

Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) Officer in Charge Cmdr. Jeremy S. Reed (right) on Jan. 14 visited local schools on Andros Island after AUTEC, in partnership with other U.S. government agencies, donated $50,000 in supplies to area schools. Also pictured are, U.S. Embassy Nassau’s Senior Defense Official Cmdr. Victor Lange (from left), Family Island Administrator Marlon Leary, U.S. Embassy Charge d’Affaires Kimberly Furnish, and Royal Bahamas Police Force Inspector McNeil Johnson. AUTEC is a detachment of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport.

Feb. 4, 2025 - As part of its commitment to supporting the local community, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) recently partnered with other U.S. government...

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