"Enhanced platform and warfighter performance through science and engineering"

This department is focused on

• Providing technologically superior warfighting capabilities for surface, subsurface, and marine ground platforms through high survivability, mission flexibility, and low detectability.
• Providing significant reductions in total lifecycle costs for naval platforms.
• Providing superior undersea weapons technologies that ensure high probability of kill and low probability of counter-kill within an autonomously delivered package
• Providing the technologies required to improve current and facilitate future sea basing concepts of operations.

The department is comprised of three divisions: Ship Systems and Engineering; Undersea Weapons and Naval Materials; and Sea Warfare.

The Sea Warfare Department invests in basic and applied research, and supports advanced technology development leading to improved capabilities for the Department of the Navy. Frequently the application of technological advances developed within this department has a wider influence, such as the other Department of Defense Services and Agencies, as well as U. S. industries. We are committed to actively pursuing programs that provide cutting-edge science and technology in the areas of ship design, construction, and operations.

The scope of the programs supported by the divisions can be characterized as "from nanostructures to aircraft carriers. These programs are focused on materials sciences, chemistry and ship applied physics as they apply to specific ship engineering challenges. Active investigations are being conducted in areas such as structural materials, functional materials, energetic materials, maintenance reduction, environmental quality control, energy generation, energy storage, hydromechanics, signature reduction and control, computational physics, solid mechanics, electromechanics, advanced electrical power systems, damage resistant hull & structures, integrated platform systems, and advanced platform concepts & designs.