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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...

Elissa Trueman Embraces ‘Creative Tension’ as Carderock CTO

Elissa Trueman hard at work at NSWC Carderock's Chief Technology Officer

March 4, 2025 - When Elissa Trueman became Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), she described the experience as “coming home.”Trueman, who previously served as the deputy and acting CTO...

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...

Carderock Celebrates Engineers Week with "Design Your Future" Theme

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division's Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Elissa Trueman, meets with attendees during the poster session and open house of an enterprise-wide event themed “Design Your Future,” held at Carderock' Raye Montague Center to commemorate Engineers Week, Feb. 18, 2025.

Feb. 21, 2025 - BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division commemorated Engineers Week on Feb. 18, 2025 with an enterprise-wide event, themed “Design Your Future.”The event, held in Carderock’s Raye Montague Center,...

Divisions’ Major Focus Areas

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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