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NSWC PCD design thinking aims to deliver tangible solutions
August 16, 2023 — NSWC Panama City Division Center for Innovation, NavalX and NSWC Carderock Division guide small teams of warfighters to identify high-priority problems at the annual 2023 Warrior East Conference. Design thinking sprints make innovation processes, as a whole, more available across the command and the Naval Sea Systems Command enterprise... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division Center for Innovation, NavalX and NSWC Carderock Division guide small teams of warfighters to identify high-priority problems at the annual 2023 Warrior East Conference. Design thinking sprints make innovation processes, as a whole, more available across the command and Naval Sea Systems Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Lauren Hanyok)

Carderock Designs 3D-Printed Overboard Discharge Scupper Technology
July 17, 2023 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees have collaborated with Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) in Norfolk to design and 3D print overboard discharge scupper technology using polymers to eliminate running rust stains from U.S. Navy ships. The project is funded by Naval Sea Systems Command’s Painting Center of Excellence (05P)... MORE

Engineer Bill Manning uses a sealant to prevent water from getting in between the Very High Bond tape on the scupper and the surface of USS Kidd (DDG 100) in Everett, Wash., on June 21, before attaching the 3D-printed overboard discharge scupper. (U.S. Navy photo provided by Dr. Maureen Foley)

Carderock Hosts 17th International Submarine Race
June 30, 2023 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division welcomed the return of the International Submarine Race (ISR) to its David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Maryland, June 26-30, for the first time since before the COVID-19 Pandemic... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division hosts the International Submarine Races (ISR) at the David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Md., from June 26-30, with 19 teams from Canada, Poland, the U.K. and across the United States making appearances.

Carderock Collaborates with USMC on Tactical Fabrication Additive Manufacturing Kit
May 30, 2023 — In 2022, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division employees in the Platform Integrity Department and NSWC Crane Division collaborated to provide Expeditionary Fabrication (XFAB) systems to various U.S. Marine Corps bases throughout the world. Now, on the heels of that effort, Carderock is once again partnering with the USMC, this time to provide a Tactical Fabrication (TACFAB) Additive Manufacturing kit... MORE

One of the 3D printers that can be found in the Tactical Fabrication Additive Manufacturing kit is displayed sitting atop the TACFAB kit during the filming of a "Pack-out and Set-up" video on Feb. 22, which will be used as a how-to video for the U.S. Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Devin Pisner)

Carderock Changes Command
May 12, 2023 — Capt. Matthew L. Tardy relieved Capt. Todd E. Hutchison as Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Commanding Officer (CO) during a change-of-command ceremony held in West Bethesda, Maryland, on May 12... MORE

The official party, consisting of Capt. Aaron Stroud, Rear Adm. Kevin Byrne, Capt. Todd E. Hutchison and Capt. Matthew Tardy salute as the flag is presented during a change-of-command ceremony held in West Bethesda, Md., on May 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Devin Pisner)

USS Forrestal Model Sails to New Location at National Museum of the U.S. Navy
May 10, 2023 — A model of USS Forrestal (CVA 59) was moved to a new location in the National Museum of the U.S. Navy at Washington Naval Yard in Washington, D.C., during the first two weeks of April. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division team, led by Jennifer Marland, the Assistant Curator with the Office of the Curator, together with museum staff, carefully maneuvered the 25-foot-long model from Building 70 to Building 76. The move was part of the museum’s plan to relocate to a new location... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s model moving team poses in front of the USS Forrestal (CVA 59) model at its new home in the National Museum of the U.S. Navy at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., on April 10. From left are: Marcus Gutierrez, Jimmy Schulze (Code 10212), Terry Goodwin, David Patton, Lewis D’Almeida, Brandon Patton, Jennifer Marland (Code 102B) and Brian Potter (Code 102B). (U.S. Navy photo by Neubar Kamalian)

Carderock’s Kevin Warwick Shares His Experience on Rotation at the Navy Yard
May 2, 2023 — Kevin Warwick, part of the Ship Acquisition Branch at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, serves as the Action Manager for this new team. On rotation at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., since August 2021, he manages the adjudication and close out of all current and future NAVSEA actions resulting from fire investigations... MORE

Carderock's Dr. Mark Parsons Receives ASNE “Jimmie” Hamilton Award
May 2, 2023 — Dr. Mark Parsons, a naval architect and marine engineer in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Future Ship and Submarine Design Software Branch, has received the 2022 American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) “Jimmie” Hamilton Award for his paper, “Refinement of a Mission, Power and Energy System (MPES) Architecture Flow Optimization (AFO) Method and Tool for Surface Ship Concept Design,” which was published in the Naval Engineers Journal (NEJ) in September 2022. The award was presented at the joint ASNE Flagship Section – SNAME (Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers) Chesapeake Section meeting at the Maritime Plaza in Washington, D.C., on April 25... MORE

Carderock’s Dr. John Miesner Receives ASNE Solberg Award
April 4, 2023 — Dr. John Miesner, a structural acoustics senior research engineer in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Structural Acoustics Branch is the recipient of the 2022 American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) Solberg Award for research. He will officially receive the award during the 2023 Technology Systems and Ships and Combat Systems... MORE

Carderock Engineers File Patent for Lithium 6T Top Cap Invention
March 20, 2023 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division engineers in the Expeditionary and Developmental Power and Energy Branch recently developed and filed a patent for their invention, a Lithium 6T (Li6T) Top Cap, which is a modular, field-reconfigurable direct current (DC) power distribution device that can be installed and mounted on top of a Li6T... MORE

Engineers in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Expeditionary and Development Power and Energy Branch from left: Matthew Huffman, technical area lead, Kevin Lin, electrical engineer and James Mulford, mechanical engineer, display their invention, the Lithium 6T Top Cap, in West Bethesda, Md., on March 8. The engineers are shown with three of their four prototypes, which is a modular, field-reconfigurable direct current power distribution device that can be installed and mounted on top of a Li6T battery. (U.S. Navy photo by Aaron Thomas)

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