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Carderock MASS Team Takes Rapid Manufacturing to the Warfighter at Valiant Shield 26
August 27, 2026 — During exercise Valiant Shield 26, Carderock’s Manufacturing Attritable Systems at Scale (MASS) team worked alongside Marines with Intermediate Repair Company, 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, to establish a manufacturing lab and train Marines to use it. Together, they manufactured the 3- and 7-meter FRCs before demonstrating the platforms’ manned and unmanned capabilities at White Beach, Okinawa...

SSEP Students Turn Classroom Design into Hands-On Engineering at Carderock
August 26, 2026 — Three Florida Institute of Technology students spent their summer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division chasing a number: 34%. That’s how much additional range their destroyer hull design needed to achieve, without modifying the ship’s propulsion, by the end of the project. Brianna Ellis, Zoey Shepard and Collin Morr, rising seniors studying ocean engineering at Florida Tech, came to Carderock through the STEM Student Employment Program (SSEP) to do something rare for undergraduates: take a ship design developed during the academic year, build a physical model and test it in the David Taylor Model Basin. ...

Carderock Engineer Helps Inspire Future Maritime Innovators Through Underwater Robotics Competition
August 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 inspire the next generation of engineers...

Leadership Through Service: NSWC Carderock Security Director Brings Military Values to Every Mission
August 10, 2026 — For Cory Hoffman, the new director of security at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, leadership begins with trust. Since joining Carderock in April 2020 as deputy security director before assuming his current role as security director, Hoffman has focused on building a culture where employees are empowered to succeed. ...

Carderock Communications Earns Team and Individual Honors from NAVSEA and Navy Public Affairs
July 20, 2026 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Corporate Communications Division is celebrating a landmark series of team and individual victories, earning formal recognition from enterprise leadership for strategic storytelling, technical skill, and commitment to the warfighter.The division’s creative and strategic public affairs efforts have...

Carderock, Dahlgren Team Analyze How to Power and Sustain Future Navy Capabilities
July 16, 2026 — Ensuring that the Navy’s future capabilities, weapons systems, and ships can accomplish their mission extends beyond whether they perform as designed. Engineers must also determine how the Navy fuels, powers and logistically sustains those systems throughout operations. That is the focus of a joint team from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, whose work in Energy Supportability Analysis recently earned the 2026 Warfare Center Innovation Award...

Carderock, Fairfax City Co-Host Reverse Pitch Day to Drive Maritime Autonomy and Innovation
July 1, 2026 — FAIRFAX, Va. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division partnered with Fairfax City Economic Development (FCED) to host a large-scale reverse pitch day at the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center on June 26, 2026, bringing together local industry leaders, academic researchers, and government officials to accelerate the commercialization of...

Carderock Team Applies Expertise to USS DEFIANT Model
June 24, 2026 — BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division is applying decades of technical fabrication expertise to refine a scale model of the proposed future battleship USS Defiant (BBG 1). The model, which debuted at the Surface Navy Association’s National Symposium, returned to Carderock at the request of the Navy for final...

Matt Huffman, Expeditionary Power and Energy Team Lead
June 22, 2026 — WEST BETHESDA, Md – Family influence and hands-on hobbies shaped Matt Huffman’s early interest in engineering, eventually steering him toward mechanical engineering. Today, Huffman serves as a team lead for the Expeditionary and Developmental Power and Energy Branch at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division. A team lead at Carderock...

Carderock Supports Marine Corps New Mobile Manufacturing Capability for Forward-Deployed Marines
June 8, 2026 — In environments where distance can delay routine repairs, Marines traditionally rely on supply chains to deliver the parts needed to keep equipment operational. Now, a new capability is changing that dynamic. The Advanced Integrated Mobile Machine Shop (AIMMS), developed with support from engineers in...

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