NSWC CARDEROCK DIVISION

Carderock is the Navy's center of excellence for ships and ship systems. For over 100 years, Carderock has helped preserve and enhance the nation's presence on and under the seas. Carderock is the full-spectrum research and development, test and evaluation, engineering, and Fleet support organization for the Navy's ships, submarine, military watercraft, and unmanned vehicles.

Carderock specializes in Ship Design & Integration; Environmental Quality Systems; Hull Forms & Propulsors; Structures and Materials; Signatures, Silencing Systems, and Susceptibility; Machinery Systems; and Vulnerability and Survivability Systems. The Division's expertise spans more than 40 disciplines, from electrical and mechanical engineering to computer engineering and physics.