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Economic Impact - 2022

The total funded program of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport reached $1.5 billion in 2022. Of its total operating budget, $623 million was spent by Division Newport in payroll, materials, operational support, facility maintenance and military support and $901 million funded contracts.

NUWC Division Newport’s employee base includes 3,576 government civilian employees and 31 military members with a total gross payroll of $547 million. Of the full-time government civilian staff, 72% are classified as scientists or engineers, with 86% having four-year degrees and 32% having graduate degrees.

In addition to the government workforce, NUWC Division Newport contracted for approximately 2,404 work years during fiscal year 2022, which runs from Oct. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2022, from companies located in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, bringing its combined government and contractor workforce to more than 6,011 positions.

Money spent for contracts totaled approximately $901 million, with small business contracts obligated to Southern New England companies during the year exceeding $299 million. Approximately 93.9% of Division Newport's contract obligations paid for new services in Rhode Island, and 92% of fiscal year 2022 contracts were competitively awarded.

Academic and intellectual outreach in 2022 included 12 programs and 30 educational partnerships that totaled $1.3 million and reached 8,603 students in pre-kindergarten through doctoral degree programs.

In 2022, Division Newport had 65 active cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), seven university contracts and its employees published 215 technical papers.
 Between fiscal years 2018 and 2022, Division Newport employees have generated 90 patented inventions.

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