WEST BETHESDA, Md. –
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 Selby, commander, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), and Tim Arcano, NSWCCD technical director, respectively.
The Gold Medal Award (Engineering) is giving to an individual who has made a significant naval engineering contribution in a particular area during the past five years. Farabee has served as NSWCCD's senior research technologist since 2009. Before that, he served at Carderock as a staff scientist providing technical oversight and scientific direction on ship silencing programs. Today, he works to identify enabling technologies and design initiatives for the Ohio Replacement design.
Farabee has been associate editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Journal of Vibrations and Acoustics since 2012 and has contributed to more than 50 manuscripts for that publication, along with authoring and coauthoring more than 90 journal articles, technical reports and presentations.
"To sum it up, he is someone who wakes up every morning and challenges himself by asking, 'What can I do for the fleet today?'" said Selby, "and that is powerful."
While accepting the award, Farabee noted he felt the individual nature of the award was misleading about the collaborative nature of his accomplishments.
"Significant accomplishments result from the collective work of many, not an individual," Farabee said. "I am but the fortunate person who is being recognized for a group's achievements. For that I want to thank my colleagues with the Naval Sea Systems (NAVSEA) Command structure, at the various program offices, at the Carderock Division of NSWC, and most notably those in the Signatures Department at Carderock. It is their efforts for which I now stand here and receive this award."
The Solberg Award is given to an individual who has made a significant contribution to naval engineering through personal research. Moyer is the Navy's senior technologist for ship survivability modeling and simulation. He has more than 30 years of post-doctoral experience as a naval engineer and researcher improving the Navy's ability to achieve optimal survivability in its ships to maintain their warfighting superiority.
The award recognizes him for his work in developing advanced physics-based analytic design methods that Arcano said "will revolutionize the U.S. Navy's ability to predict weapons damage to warships, obviously of critical concern to the Navy in direct support of the warfighter."
"It's no small task to predict the response of surface ships to underwater explosions," Moyer said. "Ships are large, complex systems of systems, as well as complex structures necessitating large analysis models. I've had the benefit of support of various sponsors who have encouraged and facilitated my work."
Moyer thanked Robert Keane, an ASNE Life Member, for the nomination and Arcano for the introduction and his wife, Sue, for her "patience, love and support."
Arcano said that Moyer's work with the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments - Navy Enhanced Sierra Mechanics ships program has the potential to streamline the entire ship design process and reduce costs.
"Through his teaching at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), as an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Moyer's past and continuing efforts help assure our Navy's capability to engineer America's maritime dominance," Arcano said. "It is a pleasure to recognize his leadership, experience and accomplishments with the 2015 Solberg Award."
Moyer has over 50 publications in various professional journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical reports provided to research sponsors and consulting customers including the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as various commercial and foreign organizations.
Carderock engineers also won these awards in 2014, with Christopher Bassler receiving the Solberg Award and Adrian Mackenna receiving the Gold Medal Award.