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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 inFocus: Undersea Sensors
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NUWC inFocus: Test and Evaluation
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NUWC inFocus: Torpedoes
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NUWC inFocus: Cybersecurity
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NUWC inFocus: Science
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NUWC Division Newport hosts 10 SMART Scholars for tours, briefings

The 2025 students in the Science, Math and Research Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service program at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport gather with employees during a visit to the command on June 25, 2025. Pictured are Audrey Kellogg (front row, from left), of the Undersea Warfare Weapons, Vehicles and Defensive Systems Department; student Skylar Lama; student Melanie Smith; Adam Heitmann, Sensors and Sonar Systems Department; Jacob O’Donnell, Division Newport’s director of university outreach; student Abdallah Elhilo; student Jin Feng Lin; student Ava Megyeri; Monica Soriano-Mitchell, the SMART Navy component liaison; student Jaden Williams (back row, from left); Andrew O’Shea and Brandon Gusto, both of the Sensors and Sonar Systems Department; student Zachariah Morris; student William Redford; student Nathaniel Winchell; student Nicholas Orlovsky; and Anlong Dai, of the Undersea Warfare Electromagnetic Systems Department.

July 18, 2025 - Melanie Smith is a candidate for a doctorate degree in oceanography at Syracuse University in New York, and in the coming years she’ll use her skills in acoustic analysis to help the U.S. Navy fleet complete various missions...

NUWC Division Newport employees, 250 children share in STEM demonstrations as part of Bring a Child to Work Day

Attendees at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Bring a Child to Work Day cover their ears as the three-inch countermeasure launcher in the Submarine Launcher System Test Facility fires on June 27, 2025. About 250 youngsters, ages 9 to 17, and 150 parents and guardians participated in the event designed to introduce family members of Division Newport employees to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) work conducted daily at the warfare center.

July 14, 2025 - Roughly 250 youngsters, ages 9 to 17, and 150 parents and guardians participated in Bring a Child to Work Day on June 27, which is designed to introduce family members of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists share studies on reef mapping with NUWC Division Newport workforce

Dr. Seth McCammon (from left), Dr. T. Aran Mooney, and Dr. Yogesh Girdhar, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, share studies
on coral reefs, mapping sounds and the use of autonomous underwater vehicles with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport workforce on June 5, 2025.

July 7, 2025 - Dr. T. Aran Mooney, Dr. Seth McCammon and Dr. Yogesh Girdhar from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts shared their studies on coral reefs, mapping sounds and the use of autonomous underwater...

NUWC Division Newport scientist, team win 2025 Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Awards

Michael Warnock, a scientist in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport Undersea Warfare Platforms and Payload Integration Department, won an Assistant Secretary of the Navy Research, Development and Acquisition 2025 Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award in the Emergent Scientist category.

June 18, 2025 - Michael Warnock, a scientist in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s Undersea Warfare (USW) Platforms and Payload Integration Department, and the Surface Ship Undersea Warfare In-Service Support Team...

NUWC Division Newport awards ceremony recognizes 12 patent inventors, published authors

Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Chief Technology Officer Dr. Jason Gomez (at podium from right) listens as Jim Kasischke, supervisory patent counsel, thanks employees attending a ceremony to recognize the most recent patent inventors and authors of published articles. The ceremony was held on May 30, 2025.

June 9, 2025 - The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport’s newest crop of inventors and authors were celebrated during a ceremony that recognized the latest patents and journal articles on May 30. The event capped a...

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NUWC Division Newport
1176 Howell St.
Newport, RI 02841

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