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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.

Leadership
Rear Admiral Peter D. Small
Commander, Naval Surface
and Undersea Warfare Centers		 Peter C. Reddy, SES
Executive Director Naval Surface
and Undersea Warfare Centers

Warfare Centers News
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...
Carderock Engineer Helps Inspire Future Maritime Innovators Through Underwater Robotics Competition
James Duval official portrait
Aug. 18, 2026 - While supporting the U.S. Navy's mission as an ocean engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Hull Response and Protection Branch (Code 664), James Duval also volunteers beneath the surface to help...
NUWC Division Newport employees mentor four middle school teams in 2026 International SeaPerch Challenge
Joey Freeman (second from left) and his teammates from The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, maneuver their SeaPerch remotely operated vehicle through the water during the New Bedford Regional competition held in Massachusetts on Dec. 6, 2025. The team, mentored by Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport employees, advanced to the 2026 International SeaPerch Challenge along with three other Division Newport-sponsored teams. SeaPerch is an underwater robotics program for students in grades 5 through 12.
Aug. 17, 2026 - For many years, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport engineers and scientists have been encouraging the next generation of inventors and researchers through SeaPerch, an underwater robotics program for...
From Innovation Challenge to internship: NSWC Dahlgren Division inspires high school student’s mechatronics journey
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Eighteen-year-old Joseph Shanklin, West Moreland High School graduate, participated in the NSWCDD Science and Engineering Apprenticeship Program with a team that created software for an all-terrain autonomous rover with object detection and manual override capability. Shanklin stands with the project at the NSWCDD Poster Session July 30 where they showcased their work at the University of Mary Washington’s Dahlgren Campus. (Jennifer Erickson/NSWCDD Photo)
Aug. 14, 2026 - When Joseph Shanklin’s team won second place in the 2024 Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division High School Innovation Challenge, he knew he wanted to study mechatronics. As a sophomore at Westmoreland High School at...
NSWCDD team gives back to alma mater through project
Left, Joseph Lee and English Grey of the High Power Microwave (HPM) Weapon Systems Integration Division at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division stand beside an experimental HPM source which functions as a testbed for HPM technologies. Lee and Grey, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) alumni, teamed up to co-mentor four VCU seniors for a project that highlighted HPM. (Jennifer Erickson/NSWCDD Photo)
Aug. 14, 2026 - Grey English, a mechanical engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), cares about his alma mater – Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).He is among 180 VCU alumni at NSWCDD, according to Brooke...
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NSWC Carderock
Ship Design and Engineering

NSWC Corona
Analytics and Data Driven Performance Assessments

NSWC Crane
Electromagnetic Warfare, Expeditionary Warfare Systems and Strategic Systems Components

NSWC Dahlgren
Surface Ship Weapons System Development and Integration

NSWC Indian Head
Energetics and EOD Technologies

NUWC Keyport
Sustaining Undersea Warfare Systems and Vehicles

NUWC Newport
Undersea, Subsea, and Seabed Warfare Weapons Systems Development and Integration

NSWC Panama City
Mine Warfare and Littoral Warfare Systems

NSWC Philadelphia
Surface and Undersea Machinery, Power, Controls, and Auxiliary Ship Systems

NSWC Port Hueneme
Integrated Logistics and Test and Evaluation for Surface Warfare Combat Systems

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