Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center

Description

• Environmental Quality Systems;
• Hull Forms & Propulsors;
• Ship Design & Integration;
• Signatures,
• Silencing Systems,
• Structures and Materials;
• Susceptibility.

• Carderock Division Headquarters, Bethesda, Maryland
• Acoustic Research Detachment, Bayview, Idaho, on Lake Pend Oreille uses the quiet, deep lake for Research, Development, Test & Evaluation of submarine stealth technology using large models, acoustic test facilities and ranges. The facility also works with full scale acoustic transducer calibration.
• Acoustic Trials Detachment, Titusville, Florida is the U.S. location managing and supporting the South Tongue of the Ocean Acoustic Measurement Facility at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center in the Bahamas. AUTEC is part of Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Undersea Warfare Center
• Detachment Puget Sound, Silverdale, Washington, at Naval Base Kitsap provides west coast acoustic trials and the Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility with management and logistic support.
• Combatant Craft Division, Norfolk, Virginia, supports Navy and other government agencies in engineering, design, testing and evaluation of high performance watercraft.
• Memphis Detachment, Memphis, Tennessee engaged in Research, Design, Testing and Engineering using the Large Cavitation Channel, a high-speed, variable-pressure water tunnel capable of testing ship and submarine propellers.
• South Florida Ocean Measurement Facility, Fort Lauderdale, Florida operates test ranges specializing in magnetic detection and electromagnetic signature testing related to mine warfare.
• Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility, Ketchikan, Alaska makes high fidelity passive acoustic signature measurements of radiated noise for quieting programs. A unique feature allows suspending a submarine between barges on cables to measure radiated noise not related to underway hull and propeller noise. Those measurements may be directed to individual machinery noise with all other systems shut down.

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