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USS Portland (LPD 27) Successfully Completes Builder's Trials
July 5, 2017 — PASCAGOULA, Miss. - The Navy's future amphibious transport dock, USS Portland (LPD 27), successfully completed Builder's Trials Jun. 30... MORE

The amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducts its first set of sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. Ingalls' test and trials team spent four days operating the 11th San Antonio-class ship and demonstrating its systems.

Carderock Welcomes NHHC to Sub Races, Educates Participants on Hunley
July 5, 2017 — Students of engineering from around the world participating in the 14th biennial International Human-Powered Submarine Races (ISR) June 25-30 were enlightened on the historical significance of the human-powered submarine.Personnel from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) were at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West... MORE

Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Cliff Davis and Heather Brown from the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) pose with an artifact found from the remains of USS Housatonic, which was sunk during combat by the submarine H.L Hunley on Feb. 17, 1864. Davis and Brown were in attendance at the 2017 International Human-Powered Submarine Races (ISR) held in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Divisions David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Maryland, June 25-30. (U.S. Navy photo by Daniel Daglis/Released)

NAVSEA celebrates 43 years as a team
June 30, 2017 — WASHINGTON -- On July 1, 1974, Vice Adm. Robert C. Gooding oversaw the merger of Naval Ship Systems Command and the Naval Ordnance Systems Command as it became Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). At the time, there were 587 active ships in the Navy, including 14 aircraft carriers, 119 destroyers and 73 submarines... MORE

Leveraging analytics to optimize NAVSEA’s workforce
June 30, 2017 — WASHINGTON -- NAVSEA Commander Vice Adm. Tom Moore looks to use modeling to improve the command’s analytical and technological processes to predict workforce capability and capacity needs. In an environment where the work required by NAVSEA increases and declines over time, the ability to predict the number of employees, their particular skillsets... MORE

Porter completes Navy's first SIA in Rota, Spain
June 29, 2017 — ROTA, Spain -- USS Porter (DDG 78) completed its Surface Incremental Availability (SIA) June 16, the first such CNO availability ever performed at Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center Detachment Rota, Spain... MORE

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Porter (DDG 78), front, USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), USS Carney (DDG 64) and USS Ross (DDG 71) are moored at Naval Station Rota, Spain.

US Navy Divers Keep Students Safe at Carderock During International Human-Powered Submarine Races
June 29, 2017 — WEST BETHESDA, Md. (NNS) -- Every other year, hundreds of college and high school students come from around the world to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), to race human-powered submarines they designed and built themselves in the command's David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB)... MORE

Sailors assigned to Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) stand by to assist in the David Taylor Model Basin during the 14th International Human-Powered Submarine Races (ISR) at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md., June 28, 2017. NEDU and supporting dive-qualified Sailors in the National Capital Region are helping ensure a safe competition between the students at Carderock racing human-powered submersibles they designed and built for the biennial event, which is sponsored by the Foundation for Underwater Research and Education and is considered the capstone event for science, technology, engineering and mathematics outreach at Carderock.

Carderock Sub Races Draw Worldwide Teams, Promote STEM
June 28, 2017 — WEST BETHESDA, Md. (NNS) -- Students of engineering from universities and organizations across the country and abroad converged at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland, for the 14th biennial International Submarine Races (ISR), June 25-30... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, hosts the 14th International Human-Powered Submarine Races, at West Bethesda, Md., June 26. During this biennial engineering design competition, high school and college engineering students team up to design, build and operate a human-powered submarine and navigate it through an underwater course.

NSWC Crane Helps Build Future Workforce Through Workplace Simulation Project
June 27, 2017 — When Brian Blackwell first heard about the Workplace Simulation Project (WSP), he viewed it as a perfect opportunity for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) to help build its future workforce. Blackwell, a member of NSWC Crane’s Executive Leadership Team, also saw the WSP as a way to inform talented students in southern Indiana that they can build a future Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-related career without leaving the region. Two years later, the WSP is a booming success in southern Indiana, and it is expanding to even more school districts next school year. ... MORE

NSWC Crane, Indiana University and DirectEmployers launched the Workplace Simulation Project in the Bloomfield School District.

Junior Navy Scientists and Engineers Make Early Warning CBR Detection via UAVs a Reality
June 22, 2017 — DAHLGREN, Va. - Sly Fox Mission 21 has all the trappings of a smash hit reality television series with a technological innovation that may one day save lives of warfighters across the joint services. Although it was never filmed or broadcast, the drama, technology, and names of the seven junior scientists and engineers are real. Hundreds... MORE

DAHLGREN, Va. (June 15, 2017) - Navy scientist Charles Miller and mathematician Jessica Hildebrand perform pre-flight checks on the SCAPEGOAT chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) detection system. The SCAPEGOAT system - developed by a team of Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division junior scientists and engineers - demonstrates the capability to deploy a modular CBR sensor system aboard multiple unmanned aerial vehicle platforms.

PSNS & IMF employees earn NAVSEA awards for innovation, excellence
June 21, 2017 — One PSNS & IMF employee was honored for individual excellence and eight others were commended by NAVSEA for their participation in successful teams... MORE

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