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Carderock reaches out to local students through annual math contest
March 22, 2016 — Nearly 200 students from 25 local middle schools competedat Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), in the seventhannual Carderock Math Contest (CMC) March 18.The contest, featuring MathCOUNTS style tests and toursof Carderock, is part of NSWCCD’s ongoing outreach efforts to encourage today’sstudents to pursue careers in science,...

USS Lake Champlain conducts light-off test of Periscope Detection and Discrimination Capability
March 17, 2016 — WASHINGTON - The Navy concluded a successful light-off test of its upgraded Periscope Detection and Discrimination (PDD) capability for the AN/SPQ-9B Anti-Ship Missile Defense Radar onboard USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) March 12...

SUPSALV Validates LCS APU Removal/Installation Procedures
March 17, 2016 — WASHINGTON - The Naval Sea Systems Command's Office of the Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) has responded to a PEO LCS request to establish underwater maintenance and repair processes and procedures for the Retracting Azimuthing Thruster (RAT) for INDEPENDENCE variant Littoral Combat Ships. SUPSALV's Underwater Ship Husbandry Division (UWSH) that develops waterborne repair procedures for the fleet was assigned the task...

$42 Million Lilly Grants to Benefit NSWC Crane, Surrounding Areas
March 15, 2016 — CRANE, Ind.— Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the 11 counties surrounding it are headed for a better educated workforce, an increased number of technical jobs and more attractive communities, thanks to $42 million dollars in grant money from Lilly Endowment Inc. Residents of Brown, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Monroe, Orange, Owen and Washington counties will benefit from initiatives focused on research and development, workforce education and quality of life...

Team Searches for Vanished U.S. - Flagged Vessel: Joint team searches for El Faro
March 14, 2016 — Working around the clock, an ad hoc civilian-military team goes to great lengths, and depths to find the sunken merchant vessel El Faro...

MAKE Lab Opens Additive Manufacturing Opportunities to NSWC Carderock Employees
March 14, 2016 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division's (NSWCCD) facility for additive manufacturing (AM), the Manufacturing, Knowledge and Education (MAKE) Lab, will hold its grand opening March 24.AM, also known as 3-D printing, is an enabling technology in which 3-D printers deposit thin layers of material to create a component by following a digital...

American Society of Naval Engineers Recognizes NSWC Carderock Senior Scientists
March 14, 2016 — Ted Farabee and E. Thomas Moyer earned recognition from the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) during the ASNE annual awards banquet in Arlington, Virginia, March 3.Farabee and Moyer, both senior scientists assigned to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), received the Gold Medal and Solberg awards from Rear Adm. Lorin...

NSWC Crane Scientist Wins International Pyrotechnics Award
March 10, 2016 — CRANE, Ind.— Dr. Jonathan Dilger, a scientist at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane), has won the 2016 Dr. Bernard E. Douda Young Scientist Award. The International Pyrotechnics Society (IPS) presents the award annually to assist one scientist under 40 in presenting research at an IPS seminar. Dilger will present his winning paper, “Pyrolysis / Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool to Detect Toxic Byproducts of Pyrotechnic Reactions”, at the 42nd IPS seminar in July...

Navy-Marine Corps-Army Engineers Win Top Awards for Energy Harvesting Innovation
March 10, 2016 — DAHLGREN,Va. (March 9, 2016) - Bionic power, solar panels, and the kinetic transducingLightning Pack. EricSouth and Sara Lohmann talk about integrating these technologies on a humanwith the vision and enthusiasm of a Hollywood director. However,they are not directing a movie or remaking the 'Bionic Man' televisionseries. The NavalSurface...

USS Porter Conducts First SeaRAM Firing from DDG
March 9, 2016 — ATLANTIC OCEAN - The sailors of USS Porter (DDG 78), a guided missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain, successfully completed a live-fire test from a SeaRAM missile system March 4...

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