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Navy’s White Sands Team Taps Deep Rocket Expertise to Deliver Low-Cost Targets That Prep Fleet for New Threats
August 27, 2026 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD)’s White Sands Detachment (WSD) launches simulated threats at U.S. Navy ships before adversaries can fire the real thing at them.The New Mexico-based detachment, which marks its 80th anniversary this year, has for decades been designing and launching new variations of its targets that...

Carderock MASS Team Takes Rapid Manufacturing to the Warfighter at Valiant Shield 26
August 27, 2026 — During exercise Valiant Shield 26, Carderock’s Manufacturing Attritable Systems at Scale (MASS) team worked alongside Marines with Intermediate Repair Company, 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, to establish a manufacturing lab and train Marines to use it. Together, they manufactured the 3- and 7-meter FRCs before demonstrating the platforms’ manned and unmanned capabilities at White Beach, Okinawa...

Keyport hosts DSEND First-Ever Open Water Evaluation
August 27, 2026 — KEYPORT, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES – Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport hosted the first-ever open water test of the Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression suit June 8-12.The cutting-edge atmospheric diving system is designed to protect divers from the crushing pressure of extreme ocean depths while eliminating the need for...

NSWCPD Introduces Future Engineers to Navy STEM Careers During NSLC Visits
August 27, 2026 — Approximately 80 high school students from across the country received an inside look at U.S. Navy engineering and civilian career opportunities during National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) visits to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD), on July 21 and Aug.5, 2026.The students visited in two cohorts of about 40 each,...

With Three Patents Under His Belt, Kvryan Is Ready to Share His Expertise on the Process
August 26, 2026 — Armen Kvryan, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s (NSWC PHD) corrosion and additive manufacturing lead, is considered an excellent example of how an idea can become an official patent that ultimately could benefit the U.S. Navy and the warfighter.Kvryan was issued two patents in June from the United States Patent and Trademark...

SSEP Students Turn Classroom Design into Hands-On Engineering at Carderock
August 26, 2026 — Three Florida Institute of Technology students spent their summer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division chasing a number: 34%. That’s how much additional range their destroyer hull design needed to achieve, without modifying the ship’s propulsion, by the end of the project. Brianna Ellis, Zoey Shepard and Collin Morr, rising seniors studying ocean engineering at Florida Tech, came to Carderock through the STEM Student Employment Program (SSEP) to do something rare for undergraduates: take a ship design developed during the academic year, build a physical model and test it in the David Taylor Model Basin. ...

Future Fleet Leaders Connect Classroom Theory to Shipboard Power at NSWCPD
August 21, 2026 — When Midshipman 1st Class Logan Flament arrived at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD), he stepped into a vital side of the Navy he had never seen before.By the time his three-and-a-half-week internship ended, the electrical engineering major from Youngstown, Ohio, had developed a far different view of the civilian...

U.S. Navy and Indiana National Guard unveil nation’s first sled track capability to accelerate defense innovation
August 18, 2026 — The U.S. Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) and the Indiana National Guard unveiled the nation’s first ground-based Sled Track Facility, a high-speed test site that replicates advanced flight conditions on August 12. The new capability is expected to accelerate countermeasure development, reduce testing costs, and...

Carderock Engineer Helps Inspire Future Maritime Innovators Through Underwater Robotics Competition
August 18, 2026 — While supporting the U.S. Navy's mission as an ocean engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Hull Response and Protection Branch (Code 664), James Duval also volunteers beneath the surface to help inspire the next generation of engineers...

NUWC Division Newport employees mentor four middle school teams in 2026 International SeaPerch Challenge
August 17, 2026 — For many years, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport engineers and scientists have been encouraging the next generation of inventors and researchers through SeaPerch, an underwater robotics program for students in grades 5 through 12. This year, four of those sponsored teams were invited to participate in the 2026 International SeaPerch Challenge held in Maryland in May...

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