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NSWC Crane Expert Honored to Receive Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
March 26, 2018
CRANE, Ind. – Jeff Smith, an employee at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane), received a Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award last month in recognition of his exemplary performance while supporting Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) for the activation of the Limited Area Production Storage Complex and supporting Nuclear Weapons Surety Information Assurance and Cybersecurity efforts from July 2014 to January 2017.
Tugs, broncs and brawn needed to move mighty warships
March 23, 2018
Harbor tug Defiant (YT 804) and crew wait to assist while USS Nimitz (CVN 68) is being positioned for docking at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington March 1, 2018.
NSWC IHEODTD, St. Mary’s College, The Patuxent Partnership Sign Educational Partnership Agreement
March 23, 2018
Navy establishes mobile capability on Guam to test FDNF ships' combat EM systems
March 22, 2018
Naval Base Guam's mobile command post will serve as a temporary U.S. Navy Shipboard Electronic Systems Evaluation Facility for testing U.S. Pacific Fleet ships' electromagnetic combat direction-finding systems.
Local Students Enter Record 200 Projects in 34th Annual Team Crane Science Fair
March 22, 2018
CRANE, Ind. – Adalyn Wiseman, 7th grade, Bloomfield Junior Senior High School speaks with attendee at the 34th Annual Team Crane Science Fair. Students from 11 area school systems entered a record 200 projects to compete for awards and cash prizes in the 34th Annual Team Crane Science Fair held at WestGate Academy Conferencing & Training Center on Mar. 21, 2018.
New Name for Navy PEO
March 22, 2018
The Navy announced March 22, 2018, that it is renaming Program Executive Office Littoral Combat Ship (PEO LCS) as Program Executive Office, Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) to better align the course and scope of responsibilities for both manned and unmanned systems to meet combatant commander needs.
Navy Engineer on Cutting Edge of Vibration Technology Wins Navy Technical Excellence Award
March 20, 2018
IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. - Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) engineer Shawn Schneider mounts an adapter plate to an Unholtz-Dickie T-2000 electro-dynamic vibration system capable of providing over 24,000 pounds of force in vibration at frequencies up to and exceeding 3,000 hertz (cycles per second). These systems are used to replicate shock and vibration environments experienced by test items during their lifecycle to ensure that performance and safety are not compromised prior to use by the warfighter. NSWCDD announced on March 20 that Schneider won the 2018 Department of the Navy Award for Technical Excellence at a Test and Evaluation Facility or Range. The engineer was honored for extraordinary scientific and engineering contributions to the test and evaluation community in the area of multi-input-multi-output vibration test profiles.
Carderock Engineer's Work on Risk Assessment in Bridges Benefits Shipbuilding
March 20, 2018
Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) passes under the Verrazano Bridge during a parade of ships in the New York Harbor river to mark the start of 2016 Fleet Week New York. The event Fleet Week New York, now in its 28th year, is the city's time-honored celebration of the sea services. It is an unparalleled opportunity for the citizens of New York and the surrounding tri-state area to meet Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, as well as witness firsthand the latest capabilities of today's maritime services. The weeklong celebration has been held nearly every year since 1984.
Tennessee Students Help Navy Research 3-D Print Materials' Properties
March 20, 2018
Johnny Ruffa, from the Ship Structures Branch at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Will Ferrell, a doctoral student at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Dan Hart, an aerospace engineer from Carderock's Advanced Materials and Structures Branch, discuss the vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) process for additive manufacturing in the Composites Lab on March 15, 2018, at Carderock's West Bethesda, Md., headquarters.
Navy Seeks Savings, Releases Two-Carrier RFP
March 19, 2018
A 35-ton steel plate is displayed at Newport News Shipbuilding division during a ceremony to start advance construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80).