NSWC Carderock Division Begins Second Century of Supporting the Fleet
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS101119-11
11/19/2010
From Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division - Ship Systems Engineering Station Public Affairs
PHILADELPHIA (NNS) -- Engineers, scientists and Philadelphia community leaders celebrated 100 years of research and development in naval machinery and shipboard environmental quality, Nov. 18, at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division - Ship Systems Engineering Station (NAVSSES), Philadelphia, Pa.
Founded in 1910 as a fuel oil testing plant to improve fuel efficiencies in shipboard boiler systems, NAVSSES continues to develop and test systems for today's high-tech fleet.
In July 2008, the Naval Sea Systems Command field activity partnered with industry and academia to successfully demonstrate a high temperature superconductive (HTS) degaussing system aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76).
The system decreases a ship's unwanted magnetic signatures by replacing traditional copper conductors with superconductors, making a ship less identifiable by potential adversaries. HTS is currently being evaluated for installation on current and future ship classes.
"Every conventional ship propulsion plant design of our Navy for the past 80 years finds its roots at NAVSSES," said Rear Adm. Jim Shannon, commander, Naval Surface Warfare Center. "Such innovation came out of patient and structured research, conceived in a laboratory and created in a shipyard."
NAVSSES also continues to be a leader in research and development in Integrated Power Systems, improvements to gas turbine engines, alternative fuels and alternative power sources in direct support of the Navy's efforts to reduce energy consumption and the nation's dependence on foreign oil.
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