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Carderock Engineers Work With VMI Cadets to Design Automated Ramp for Unmanned SURC
June 8, 2017 — As leaders in innovation for the U.S. Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division often brings together their workforce of scientists and engineers and partners with other government agencies, private companies and universities under Cooperative Research and Development Agreements. A CRADA with the Virginia Military Institute led to a... MORE

Carderock Employees Take Their Daughters and Sons to Work
May 4, 2017 — Children of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees learned about their parents' roles in the Navy team firsthand on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day on April 27.More than 200 children aged 7-18 visited the West Bethesda, Maryland, campus to see where and how their parents use their talents as scientists, engineers,... MORE

Chris Greenhough, a marine engineer with Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Divisions Center for Innovation in Ship Design, teaches visiting children ship design and buoyancy principles during Carderocks event for Take Our
Daughters and Sons to Work Day in West Bethesda, Maryland, April 27, 2017. More than 200 children aged 7-18 visited Carderock to see where and how their parents use their talents as scientists, engineers, technicians and other roles in support of the Department of the Navy. (U.S. Navy photo by Dustin Q. Diaz/Released)

Students Build LEGO Robots for Carderock Competition
April 26, 2017 — In what has become an annual competition hosted at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, students from local schools spent the day April 21 at the command in West Bethesda, Maryland, demonstrating teamwork in an effort to design and program fully-functioning autonomous LEGO robots.This is the fourth time Carderock has hosted the LEGO... MORE

A team of students look on as they test out their final product during Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division's LEGO Robotics Competition in West Bethesda, Maryland, on April 21, 2017. This is the fourth annual competition Carderock has hosted in which engineers assist elementary and middle school students with the designing and programming of fully-functioning autonomous LEGO robots. (U.S. Navy photo by Jake Cirksena/Released)

Earth Day at Carderock
April 26, 2017 — Employees at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division celebrated Earth Day during the command's annual base-wide event at West Bethesda, Maryland, April 20.Carderock's Environmental Branch hosted the event, an early observance of the 48th Earth Day on April 22, and organized an environmental information fair, a food truck picnic and a tree... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees help Capt. Mark Vandroff, Carderock Division Commanding Officer, plant four trees on the command's West Bethesday campus during Carderock Division's annual Earth Day celebration April 20, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Dustin Q. Diaz/Released)

Holocaust Survivor, US Army Veteran, Shares Story
April 25, 2017 — For modern generations the events of the Holocaust are something learned about in school text books or a re-enactment in Hollywood movies; however, for some like Martin "Marty" Weiss, it was a horrific reality that has never been forgotten.Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division held a Holocaust Remembrance Program in the Melville- Taylor... MORE

Martin Marty Weiss, holocaust survivor and U.S. Army veteran, shares his story with attendees of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division™s Holocaust Remembrance Program in West Bethesda, Md., on April 13, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Devin Pisner/Released)

Carderock Math Contest Challenges, Entertains Local Students with STEM
March 30, 2017 — More than 200 students from 32 local middle schools came to Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division, March 24, to compete in the 8th annual Carderock Math Contest (CMC).The contest, part of Carderock's science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) student outreach efforts, included individual and team competition in... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Commanding Officer Capt. Mark Vandroff (left) and Carderock Division Technical Director Dr. Tim Arcano (right) pose with Sean Power from Chesapeake Math Program in Columbia, Md.; Joshua Fu from Basis Independent McLean in McLean, Va; and Fang Du from Roberto Clemente Middle School in Germantown, Md., who placed first, second and third, respectively, in the Carderock Math Contest, in West Bethesda, Md., March 24, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Devin Pisner/Released)

Carderock Division Maintains Technical Excellence with Help of Gallagher
March 29, 2017 — The engineers, scientists and support staff at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland, work every day to improve America's fleet. Behind the scenes making Carderock's operations run like clockwork is Tamar Gallagher, leading her team of more than 200 employees.As the head of the corporate operations department... MORE

CRADA between Carderock, Oceana Energy Brings In-Stream Hydrokinetic Device to Marketplace
March 10, 2017 — The old adage that collaboration breeds innovation holds true time and time again at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland.As leaders in innovation for the U.S. Navy, Carderock often brings together its workforce of scientists and engineers and partners with other government agencies, private companies and... MORE

This in-stream hydrokinetic device, developed by Oceana Energy, is designed to generate energy by leveraging natural water flow in a river. Oceana Energy tested the device in 2014 at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division's David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Md. During the testing in the model basin, the device was able to generate up to 8.15 kilowatts of power. The device's rotational rate was calculated by placing a single black fin on the device that could be tracked while viewing video playback. (photo provided by Oceana Energy/Released)

NAVSEA Engineers Volunteer to Install Solar Panels for West African Community
March 10, 2017 — In the rural city of Mbour, Republic of Senegal in West Africa, more than 200 children go to school every day in a community with no electricity. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) engineers partnered with The Lamps, a nonprofit 501(c) organization, as part of their "Let There Be Light" campaign, which aims to bring electrical power to regions of... MORE

Dr. Peter Cho, an electrical engineer in the Marine and Aviation Division at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, is preparing a solar panel to be installed on a building to bring light to a community in the rural city of Mbour in the Republic of Senegal in West Africa. (Photo provided by Dr. Peter Cho/Released)

Carderock Partners with Academic Communities to Cultivate Future Workforce
February 22, 2017 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division depends on a talented workforce to come up with new and exciting innovations both for internal command processes and products, as well as for America's warfighters and the fleet.Having served the U.S. Navy and the national maritime community for nearly 80 years, Carderock emphasizes the importance of... MORE

Jennifer Brewster, the events lead from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md., Oct. 31, 2016, shows a group of students from Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School a ship model in the Woodworking Shop at Carderock during a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) event.

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