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Carderock Uses High-Fidelity Signature Simulation to Train Surface Combat Systems
August 5, 2019 — In the world of simulations, getting a system to act as close to authentic as the real-world situations it represents is always the main goal. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division develops high-fidelity acoustic simulation and training systems, giving naval personnel the ability to practice combat scenarios virtually.The Combined... MORE

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NORFOLK (June 11, 2019) Fire Controlman 1st Class Jessica Himmelberger mans a simulated close-in weapon’s system (CWIS) station at the Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) Combined Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) / Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Trainer (CIAT) at Naval Base Norfolk. The CSCS mission is to develop and deliver surface ship combat systems training to the fleet and achieve surface warfare superiority. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sonja Wickard/Released)

NSWC Crane recognized throughout Navy for swift personnel system conversion of nearly one-third of its workforce
August 5, 2019 — August 5, 2019 CRANE, Ind. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) was recognized with a 2018 Department of the Navy (DON) Human Resources (HR) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Community Award for Excellence. NSWC Crane’s Human Resources team received the Team Impact award for converting nearly one-third of the workforce... MORE

CRANE, Ind. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) was recognized with a 2018 Department of the Navy (DON) Human Resources (HR) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Community Award for Excellence. NSWC Crane’s Human Resources team received the Team Impact award for converting nearly one-third of the workforce from General Schedule (GS) to the NAVSEA Warfare Center Personnel Demonstration (Demo) project in less than six months.

ANTX East brings together innovators and operators
August 1, 2019 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division co-led the third of three Advanced Naval Technology Exercises (ANTX) for “Fight the Navy Force Forward” July 9-19, 2019, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Dubbed ANTX East, the event focused on command and control, communications, force protection, unmanned systems and logistics. While Carderock was... MORE

James Geurts (left), assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, congratulates Rod Peterson on a successful Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) East in Camp Lejeune, N.C., on July 18, 2019. Peterson is the Marine Corps Vulnerability and Protection Program manager at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division and was the technical lead for ANTX East. (U.S. Navy photo by Kelley Stirling/Released)

NSWC Crane offers unique, hands-on rapid innovation and prototyping lab training opportunity to students
August 1, 2019 — CRANE, Ind. -- As part of a collaboration between the rapid innovation and prototyping lab (RIPL) and the human resources’ student program, interns enrolled in a two-week course to get hands-on experience in sewing, welding, machining, and computer animated designing. The class is a compressed version of the Mobile Technology Repair Complex (MTRC)... MORE

NSWCPD hosts Temple STEM Summer Camp Tours and Talks
August 1, 2019 — Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) opened its doors to local middle and high school students participating in Temple University’s annual Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) summer camp on July 29.Students had the opportunity to visit several NSWCPD test sites and labs, as well as engage in panel... MORE

PHILADELPHIA (29 July 2019) Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) engineer Cassie Miller explains the Chilled Water Automation System (CWAS) test site during the annual Temple STEM Summer Camp. The summer camp provided local middle and high school students a chance to tour test sites and labs in the Command as well as engage in panel discussions featuring NSWCPD engineers. (U.S. Navy photo by Kirsten St. Peter)/Released

Carderock engineers contribute to research for USS San Diego sinking.
July 31, 2019 — National Geographic’s Drain the Oceans featured one of Carderock’s engineers, Dr. Ken Nahshon, who works in the Hull Response and Protection Branch. This particular episode looks at the “Secrets of New York City,” and one of those was the sinking of the USS San Diego in 1918 off the coast of Long Island by a mine or a torpedo. Nahshon and other... MORE

NSWCDD Engineers Revolutionize Combat Training with TRACER Augmented Reality
July 31, 2019 — The Sailors file into the room, their weapons ready and their adrenaline flowing. They operate as a team in a seamless manner. Their mission: to secure an active-shooter situation and apprehend the holographic perpetrator. Commands are given to the shooter, within the augmented-reality (AR) headset. The shooter surrenders, and the Sailors’ mission... MORE

IMAGE: 190613-N-PO203-0259 CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (Jun. 13, 2019) A Sailor assigned to the Center for Security Forces detachment in Chesapeake, Va., demonstrate the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) TechSolutions-sponsored Tactically Reconfigurable Artificial Combat Enhanced Reality (TRACER) system. TechSolutions partnered with Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to develop the TRACER package, which consists of a virtual-reality headset, a backpack, a state-of-the-art simulated weapon designed to deliver realistic recoil, and a software package that creates multiple and adaptable simulation scenarios for security personnel to experience. ONRG TechSolutions allows Sailors and Marines to submit technology requests directly to the development community for rapid response prototyping. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams)

Goggins visits Carderock’s detachment in Memphis
July 30, 2019 — Rear Adm. David Goggins, Mike McClatchey and Capt. Cedric McNeal visited the William B. Morgan Large Cavitation Channel (LCC) in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 23, 2019. Goggins is the Program Executive Officer for Submarines; McClatchey (SES) is the director for Advanced Undersea Integration at Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA); and McNeal is the... MORE

Carderock employees meet the fleet in Norfolk
July 30, 2019 — Every year, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division takes a group of interns and new hires from West Bethesda, Maryland, to “Meet the Fleet” at Naval Station Norfolk for a day of ship tours.This year’s July 16 trip was attended by Carderock’s Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) college interns, Science and Engineering... MORE

Lt. j.g. Sebastian Welch (right) gives Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees and interns an overview of USS Mahan’s (DDG 72) helo deck before embarking on a tour of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during Carderock’s “Meet-the-Fleet” trip to Naval Station Norfolk on July 16, 2019. (U.S. Navy photo by Lydia Weyrich/Released)

U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Sees Fleet’s Future at Dahlgren’s Laser Lethality Lab
July 29, 2019 — DAHLGREN, Va. – U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Max Shuman faced a half dozen Navy officer and civilian engineers while reflecting on lessons learned as his internship concluded at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD).Schuman – who interned at the command’s Laser Lethality and Development Facility from June 24 to July 19 –... MORE

IMAGE: DAHLGREN, Va. (July 17, 2019) – U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Max Shuman is pictured with the officers he briefed on his Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division internship at the command’s Laser Lethality and Development Facility which features an above-ground tunnel used for evaluating high energy laser weapon systems. Pictured left to right: Lt. Adam Mattison, Shuman, Cmdr. Steven Perchalski, and Lt. Paul Cross.

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