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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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NUWC Division Newport’s Northeast Tech Bridge hosts annual Blue Tech Demo Day

The Lightfish, an autonomous surface vehicle developed by Seasats of San Diego, California, motors around Narragansett Bay as part of the Blue Tech Demo Day hosted by the Northeast Tech Bridge at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport ‘s waterfront facility on Aug. 31, 2023.

Sept. 15, 2023 - Emerging technologies developed by small businesses with potential U.S. Navy applications took center stage during the second annual Blue Tech Demo Day hosted by the Northeast Tech Bridge at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center...

NUWC Division Newport shares goal of leveraging partnerships to advance technology during Defense Innovation Days

Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti (from left), who has been nominated to serve as acting Chief of Naval Operations, is greeted by Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Commanding Officer Capt. Chad Hennings on the opening day of the Defense Innovation Days hosted by the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance at the Marriott in Newport, Rhode Island, Aug. 28-30, 2023. Also attending the event were Christopher DelMastro (second row, from left), head of Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare Platforms and Payload Integration Department, and acting Technical Director Marie Bussiere.

Sept. 12, 2023 - Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s acting Technical Director Marie Bussiere described to attendees at the ninth annual Defense Innovation Days, sponsored by the Southeastern New England Defense Industry...

Summer programs at NUWC Division Newport teach students about engineering and teamwork

Undersea Technology Apprentice Program participants Zachary Quintal (from left) of St. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island; Anthony DaSilva, a home-schooled student; Jake Greene of Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick, Rhode Island; and Sofia DiBiasio of Narragansett High School in Rhode Island, test their remotely operated underwater vehicle before a competition held at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport on Aug. 16, 2023. Each summer, Division Newport hosts two, three-week sessions of the Undersea Technology Apprentice Program, where students work alongside scientists and engineers to learn hands-on STEM skills.

Aug. 30, 2023 - When high school students arrive at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport each summer to work alongside scientists and engineers for the Undersea Technology Apprentice Program (UTAP), they usually don’t...

NUWC Division Newport engineer designs fin control method that could have military, commercial applications

Richard Dooley (from left), a mechanical engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare Weapons, Vehicles, and Defensive Systems Department, shows a model of his invention, “Variable Camber Segmented Control Surfaces,” to Ian Estaphan Owen, co-founder and chief executive officer of JAIA Robotics Inc., during the Northeast Tech Bridge Technology Showcase held at the 401 Tech Bridge collaboration center on April 18, 2023. The event highlighted areas in which industry and academia could partner on research that is of interest to the U.S. Navy.

Aug. 28, 2023 - When Richard Dooley, a mechanical engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare Weapons, Vehicles, and Defensive Systems Department, designed a new way to control the fin of a boat,...

Street names at NUWC Division Newport honor the command’s historic inventors

The first street signs (left photo), named for servicemen and inventors who made tremendous strides in the evolution of submarines and torpedoes for the U.S. Navy, went up in January 1978, when Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport was called Naval Underwater Systems Center. Howell Street honors John Adams Howell (right photo), a rear admiral who in 1870 patented the first self-propelled torpedo. A Howell torpedo (center photo) is on permanent display at the Naval War College Museum in Newport and U.S. Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington. There are only three Howells still in existence.

Aug. 24, 2023 - When entering the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport campus, most employees simply follow the roadways to their respective destinations, never really taking into account the names of the streets on which...

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NUWC Division Newport
1176 Howell St.
Newport, RI 02841

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