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Inside the History of Detachment Puget Sound
July 8, 2020 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) has several detachments scattered across the United States, all of which specialize in key areas that support the warfighter.Carderock’s Detachment Puget Sound in Washington State is a facility that supports the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets with assessment of submarine acoustic signatures and... MORE

Site of the Carr Inlet Acoustic Range (CIAR)

Carderock Team Uses Talents to Manufacture COVID-Fighting Tools
July 8, 2020 — The Materials and Manufacturing Technology Division at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division has been instrumental in supporting local COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, from hand sanitizer production to critical supplies. Four members of Carderock’s Additive Manufacturing Project Office have been fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in a... MORE

composites materials engineer in the Additive Manufacturing Project Office at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, receives manufacturing process feedback from engineer in Carderock’s Non-Metallic Research and Engineering Branch.

Carderock Scientists Tackle Hand Sanitizer Shortage
June 24, 2020 — One of the earliest words of guidance to come from the entities such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and Center for Disease Control (CDC) at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was how important it is for people to keep their hands clean. As the situation progressed from slightly concerning to severely important, retailers across the... MORE

Jay Ong, a chemical engineer in the Corrosion and Coatings Engineering Branch at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, mixes the ingredients for hand sanitizer.

Wegner Earns Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award for His Unique Contribution to Naval History
June 9, 2020 — Dana Wegner, the Curator of Ship Models at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division, was awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award on June 4, 2020, in West Bethesda, Maryland. During a tour of the base, Naval Surface and Undersea Warfare Centers Commander Rear Adm. Kevin Byrne surprised Wegner with the... MORE

Dana Wegner, the Curator of Navy Ship Models at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, receives the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award on June 4, 2020.

Carderock Engineers Road Trip to San Diego to Conduct Calm Water Trials
May 19, 2020 — A group of engineers from the Naval Architecture and Engineering Department at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division drove nearly 3,000 miles to Naval Base San Diego to perform calm-water trials on USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) in April.The test, which is part of the Performance and Special Trials (P&ST) program for the class, was managed by... MORE

A team of engineers from Naval Surface Warfare Centers Carderock and Philadelphia Divisions stop by Mt. Vernon, Ill.

Carderock Supports Capital and Mid-Atlantic Tech Bridges
May 14, 2020 — WEST BETHESDA, MARYLAND – Assistant Secretary of the Navy (ASN) for Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA) James Geurts announced the creation of six more Tech Bridges nationwide during a virtual press conference on May 12.Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division is involved in two of these new bridges, leading the Capital Tech Bridge... MORE

Carderock Engineers Work to Offset Face-Covering Shortage
May 6, 2020 — The world is continuing to adjust to the new normal that has come with the spread of COVID-19 as governments across the globe have instituted policies geared toward flattening the curve. Maryland is one of many states to order residents to wear face coverings in highly populated environments such as retail stores and public transportation. The... MORE

Scott Ziv, an engineer in the Additive Manufacturing Project Office at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, inspects a set of face covering frames after they were 3D printed on April 14, 2020, in Carderock’s Manufacturing, Knowledge and Education Lab in West Bethesda, Md.

Carderock Engineer Assists with International Fight Against COVID-19
April 28, 2020 — Being a member of the military often requires personnel to be able to adjust to the needs of a new mission on short notice. To some degree, the same is required of its civilian employees, such as Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division’s Milton Perez-Cruz, who went to Spain for one job and ended up doing another. Perez-Cruz normally works... MORE

Miguel Angel Garcia (left), a Spanish Armada functionary; Milton Perez-Cruz (center), a mechanical engineer from Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division; and David Sanchez, a Spanish Armada engineer, assemble face shields produced in their additive manufacturing lab at the Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center Detachment Rota, Spain, in April 2020 for use at local hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carderock’s Etxegoien is Resident Ship Liaison Officer at the Cartagena Arsenal and Navantia Shipyard
April 27, 2020 — As an immigrant to the U.S. with family ties to the Basque Country of northern Spain, it is only fitting that Jon Etxegoien would spend the last few years of his career with Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division in Spain.Etxegoien was born in El Pao, Venezuela, where his dad worked as an engineer at an iron ore mine. He and his family... MORE

Jon Etxegoien overlooks the Port of Cartagena, Spain.

Patent Spotlight: Ribbon Fairing Apparatus’
April 22, 2020 — Accounting for water resistance on below-surface vehicles can, at times, make or break the system. When attachments are added to the vessel, those too should be optimized to address resistance concerns.Last May, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division engineer Dr. David Coakley of the Maritime Systems Hydromechanics Branch tackled that... MORE

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