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Meet the Team – Texas A&M University
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Nearly 100 years ago, the story of the Texas A&M University’s “12th Man” was born. The long-respected tradition for college sports fans across the nation is a way of life in College Station, Texas, that has made its way to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland.Texas A&M returns to... MORE

Members of Texas A&M University’s submarine team work on 12th Manatee

Kids into Discovering Science bring a taste of Maryland to Carderock
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- The Kids into Discovering Science (KIDS) team from Accokeek, Maryland, is handing out packets of Old Bay Seasoning to anyone who stopped to take a picture in their photo booth at the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. The... MORE

Team members from the Kids into Discovering Science program in Maryland pose with their handmade props for the photo booth under their tent at the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races on June 25, 2019.

Carderock engineer’s daughter races for Virginia Tech
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Dads sometimes leave work a little early to go watch their children compete in a race, but in David Heller’s case, the race came to him. His daughter, Clara Hellersund, is a support diver for the Virginia Tech team, which has two submarines entered in the International Human-Powered Submarine Races happening at Naval... MORE

Clara Hellersund (right), a junior at Virginia Tech and a support diver for the school’s submarine racing team, prepares to be lowered into the water with the team’s submarine Phantom 8 into the David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Md., on June 25

NAVSEA ship experts say history should inform the future in naval shipbuilding expansion
June 18, 2019 — Lessons learned from history helped focus the nation’s shipbuilding efforts moving into World War II and beyond, according to Dr. Norbert Doerry and Dr. Philip Koenig, both from Naval Sea Systems Command. The two men were the June speakers for the monthly Rear Adm. David Taylor Naval Architecture Lecture Series at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in West Bethesda, Maryland, on June 13... MORE

USS Fletcher (DD 445) maneuvering off New York on July 18, 1942. (Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives)

First Einstein Fellow in DOD to be placed at Carderock
June 13, 2019 — Debbie Reynolds, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educator in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District of Pittsburgh, has been selected to come to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, as part of the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship (AEF) Program... MORE

Debbie Reynolds, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educator from Pittsburgh, will be coming to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in September as part of the 2019-2020 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship (AEF) Program. (Photo provided)

Carderock employees earn Navy awards for test and evaluation
June 11, 2019 — Two Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees were recognized on May 29 at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., when they were presented the Department of the Navy’s Test and Evaluation (T&E) Awards. ... MORE

Vice Adm. Thomas Moore (right), commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, deputy commander for Ship Design, Integration and Engineering, present Timothy Cullis, an electrical engineer in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Signatures Monitoring and Surface Ships Programs Branch, the Department of Navy Small Program Outstanding Tester Award during a ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard on May 29, 2019. (U.S. Navy photo by Laura Lakeway/Released)

Former SECNAV Winter talks acquisition at Carderock
May 30, 2019 — Acquisition was again the subject at the Rear Adm. David Taylor Naval Architecture Lecture on May 16, but this time, the lesson came from someone who has been at the top... MORE

Dr. Donald Winter, secretary of the Navy from 2006 to 2009, speaks about naval acquisition at the Rear Adm. David Taylor Naval Architecture Lecture on May 16, 2019, at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Monica McCoy/Released)

Why a more Agile Navy is important
May 16, 2019 — In the flow of traditional project management, there is a chronological order for how the experimental process goes. From the problem statement comes requirements for the experiment, which are then designed, tested and delivered... MORE

Carderock Division changes command
May 14, 2019 — Capt. Cedric J. McNeal relieved Capt. Mark R. Vandroff as the commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in a ceremony May 3, 2019, in the Maritime Technology Information Center at Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland... MORE

Capt. Cedric McNeal (second from left) relieves Capt. Mark Vandroff (second from right) as the commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in a ceremony May 3, 2019, in the Maritime Technology Information Center at Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md. From left, Col. Laurence Bazer, deputy director for the Office of the National Guard, Joint Chaplains Office; McNeal; Capt. Andy Arnold, chief of staff, Naval Surface and Undersea Warfare Center; Vandroff; Rear Adm. William Galinis, Program Executive Officer, Ships. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas Brezzell/Released)

Carderock celebrates 100th anniversary of historical flight of founding father’s ‘flying boat’
May 6, 2019 — This week marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the first transatlantic flight by air. On May 8, 1919, three Navy-developed aircraft, or flying boats, took off from Rockaway Naval Air Station in New York en route to Plymouth, England... MORE

NC-4 on May 3, 1919 at Rockaway Beach, New York. (Photo courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command-NH 112437)

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