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First Augmented Reality Maintenance Systems Operational on Five Ships
May 16, 2025 — Sailors are a ship’s first line of defense against system failures. But when the issue requires a subject matter expert (SME), repairs have often had to wait until a technician could travel to the ship.Enter ARMS, short for the Augmented Reality Maintenance System. ARMS enables sailors and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC... MORE

First Group of DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class Guided-Missile Destroyer Sailors Receive Ship Control Systems Training at NSWC Philadelphia Division
May 16, 2025 — Sailors attached to USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) were the first group from the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to receive Ship Control System – Government (SCS-Gov) Software Training at the DDG 51 Land Based Engineering Site (LBES) at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD).The training at the LBES... MORE

Sailors attached to USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) were the first group from the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers to receive Ship Control System Training at the DDG 51 Land Based Engineering Site (LBES) at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD). (U.S. Navy Photo by Phil Scaringi/Released)

TRFB Sailors Rise to the Occasion: Participate in Volunteer Rescue
May 16, 2025 — The evening of Monday, March 31, was just a regular weekday night for Machinist’s Mate (Submarines Auxiliary) 1st Class Lydia Cleary, who is part of Repair Department attached to Trident Refit Facility, Bangor (TRFB) in Silverdale, Wash... MORE

Machinist’s Mate (Submarines Auxiliary) 1st Class Jacob Baughman (left), Machinist’s Mate (Submarines Auxiliary) 1st Class Lydia Cleary (center) and Machinist’s Mate (Submarines Auxiliary) 2nd Class Alec Chambless (right), pose at Delta Pier, TRFB.

NUWC Division Newport-sponsored robotics team finishes among top alliances at world competition
May 19, 2025 — Team 78 AIR STRIKE, a Rhode Island-based FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) high school robotics team, sponsored by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, concluded its 2025 competition season with distinction, reaching the playoffs and finishing among the top 16 alliances in the world in the Daly Division at the 2025 FIRST Robotics World Championship held in Houston, Texas, April 16-19... MORE

NUWC Division Newport hosts the commander of Submarine Group 7 for tours, briefings on May 2
May 20, 2025 — The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport welcomed Rear Adm. Lincoln Reifsteck, Commander of Submarine Group 7 (CSG7) and Task Forces 54 and 74 based in Yokosuka, Japan, on May 2... MORE

Keel Laid for Future USS Quentin Walsh
May 20, 2025 — BATH, Maine — The keel for the future USS Quentin Walsh (DDG 132), an Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer, was laid during a ceremony on May 20, at Bath Iron Works (BIW)... MORE

The sponsor of DDG 132, Madison Ann Zolper, who is the great-granddaughter of Quentin Walsh, strikes welding sparks into a keel plate inscribed with her initials. At left is BIW welder Eric Goldsmith who assisted the sponsor.

Command employees spend the day teaching students from 15 area elementary schools about the work they do each day at the shipyard
May 21, 2025 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees joined forces at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, May 13, in support of the 2025 Kitsap Water Festival.The educational event was open to third and fourth graders from 15 Kitsap County elementary schools, teaching them how their everyday actions impact water quality in Kitsap... MORE

James Parkhurst, work leader, Shop 64, Woodworkers, Shipwrights, Insulators and Plastic fabricators, demonstrates how dry docks work May 14, 2025, during the 2025 Kitsap Water Festival at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S Navy photos by Wendy Hallmark)

MIT lecturer, author shares research on innovation with NUWC Division Newport workforce
May 22, 2025 — Dr. Phil Budden, a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management, delivered a briefing titled “MIT’s Approach to Innovation” to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport workforce on May 7, as part of a monthlong focus on innovation.NUWC Division Newport and MIT have a relationship... MORE

A New Strategy for High-Performance Computing at Carderock 
May 22, 2025 — When Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock’s engineers are modeling failure conditions, simulating acoustics or optimizing hydrodynamics, they need massive amounts of data to be processed and computing power to do it. Fortunately, Carderock received a major upgrade to its High-Performance Computing (HPC) capability May 9, 2025, increasing the... MORE

Personnel from Penguin Computing were onsite on May 9, 2025 to install new High-Performance Computing server clusters in Carderock's Ship Engineering and Analysis Technology Center (SEATech). The upgrades are part of a first-of-its-kind lease agreement for Carderock, ensuring faster computation times, greater efficiency, and fewer obstacles for technical teams tackling critical naval research programs.

Fleet Maintenance Officer Engages Forward Deployed Maintainers
May 23, 2025 — U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) Fleet Maintenance Officer Rear Adm. Dianna Wolfson visited Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC), engaging with critical surface ship maintainers and stakeholders across U.S. 5th and 6th Fleets May 4-13. Accompanying Wolfson, Eric Lind, Executive Director of Commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Command (CNRMC), provided regional maintenance center (RMC) enterprise oversight... MORE

NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain – Rear Adm. Dianna Wolfson, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) fleet maintenance officer, and Eric Lind, Commander, Navy Regional Maintenance Center (CNRMC) executive director, tour JEMANDIZ, the Spanish Armada intermediate-level maintenance facility, alongside Spanish Armada Capt. Juan Jose Nieto and Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) and Spanish Armada personnel.

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