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MAKE Lab Opens Additive Manufacturing Opportunities to NSWC Carderock Employees
March 14, 2016 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division's (NSWCCD) facility for additive manufacturing (AM), the Manufacturing, Knowledge and Education (MAKE) Lab, will hold its grand opening March 24.AM, also known as 3-D printing, is an enabling technology in which 3-D printers deposit thin layers of material to create a component by following a digital... MORE

American Society of Naval Engineers Recognizes NSWC Carderock Senior Scientists
March 14, 2016 — 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... MORE

New prototype enhances ship-testing capability at NSWC Carderock Division
March 8, 2016 — A new1,000-pound inertial actuator, the AMA1000, is giving engineers at NavalSurface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) unprecedented capability infull-scale testing.Dr.John Miesner, an engineer assigned to Carderock Division’s Acoustic SignaturesTechnology Division, said the Navy has used actuators like the AMA1000 in a wetenvironment for... MORE

Inside NSWC Carderock Division’s Disruptive Technologies Lab
March 8, 2016 — TheU.S. Navy faces innumerable obstacles every day as it carries out its mission.Scientists and engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division arecharged with helping to solve them so the fleet is ready with the latestcapabilities and technologies when and where it needs to be.Tomeet the challenge of combatting disruptive threats and... MORE

A concept sketch shows the original exoskeleton prototype, which was tested at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in fiscal year 2011. The sketch shows the first naval adaption of an externally powered exoskeleton with a commercially available motion-stabilizing arm attachment and how it could be used in a naval shipyard work setting. (U.S. Navy illustration by Michael White/Released)

Carderock engineers help students soar with Seaplane Challenge
February 26, 2016 — Engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division who created a STEM outreach program at the request of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) hosted the Seaplane Challenge Feb. 18-25, showing students firsthand a bit about the Navy and sea-based aviation. Eric Silberg, an aerospace engineer at Carderock, and his colleagues visited with... MORE

Navy aerospace engineer Eric Silberg watches as a student from Carderock Spring Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., prepares to test her glider during the Seaplane Challenge at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md., Feb. 25. NSWCCD engineers mentored students at the school as they built their planes, and encouraged the students to approach challenges as engineers do. Since 2014, more than 300 students from Maryland and Virginia have participated in the program.(U.S. Navy photo by James Contreras/Released)

NSWC Carderock Division teams win 2015 SECNAV Innovation Awards
February 10, 2016 — Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus announced two Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) teams Feb. 9 as winners in the 2015 SECNAV Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes the top individual and team innovations that have made remarkable innovative accomplishments to solve the Navy’s most challenging problems... MORE

Carderock mentored students qualify in First LEGO League
January 12, 2016 — Students at Burning Tree Elementary School under mentorship from employees at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) earned a second-place finish in the Montgomery County, Maryland, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) LEGO League competition regional qualifier Jan. 10. The team of 11 fifth-graders... MORE

NSWC Carderock Division wins at this year’s Federal Laboratory Consortium Regional Awards
December 15, 2015 — NavalSurface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Technology Transfer Director Dr.Joseph Teter and Deputy Director Alyssa Littlestone were recognized for theirwork at the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer Regional Awards ceremony, Nov. 3 in Rockville, Maryland. The FLC isthe nationwide network of federal laboratories that... MORE

ARD site director presented with Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
October 14, 2015 — Alan Griffitts, site director at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD), was presented with the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award during a surprise award ceremony in West Bethesda, Maryland, Oct. 9, 2015. The Navy MeritoriousCivilian Service Award is given to Department of the Navy... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) Technical Director Dr. Joseph (Tim) Arcano (left) and NSWCCD Commanding Officer Capt. Richard Blank congratulate Alan Griffitts, director, NSWCCD Acoustic Research Detachment, Bayview, Idaho, on receiving the Meritorious Civilian Service Award at NSWCCD in West Bethesda, Md., Oct. 9, 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Jay Pinsky/Released)

Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Command Stands Up
October 1, 2015 — PHILADELPHIA -- The new Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Philadelphia Division stood up as a separate echelon four division within NSWC, Oct. 1. NSWC Philadelphia Division, formerly known as Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (NAVSSES), was an echelon five command within NSWC Carderock Division. ... MORE

PHILADELPHIA -- The new Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Philadelphia Division stood up as a separate echelon four division within NSWC, Oct. 1. NSWC Philadelphia Division, formerly known as Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (NAVSSES), was an echelon five command within NSWC Carderock Division.

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