The Carderock

Carderock, Maryland

Carderock, Maryland, is located in Montgomery County, Maryland, along the Potomac River. Carderock is just west of Bethesda.It is the location of a division of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center ....

 Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center

Naval Surface Warfare Center

The Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers are composed of the Naval Surface Warfare Centers and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center . They operate in a seamless, integrated manner, and they collaborate with customers using a common work assignment process to get the right work to the right...

, located in Potomac, Maryland

Potomac, Maryland

Potomac is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named for the nearby Potomac River. The population was 44,822 at the 2000 census. The Potomac area is known for its very affluent and highly-educated residents. In 2009 CNNMoney.com listed Potomac as the fourth...

, specializes in ship acoustics and stealth

Stealth ship

A stealth ship is a ship which employs stealth technology construction techniques in an effort to ensure that it is harder to detect by one or more of radar, visual, sonar, and infrared methods...

 technology

Stealth technology

Stealth technology also termed LO technology is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, and missiles, to make them less visible to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection...

. Another area of focus is hydromechanics

Hydromechanics

The history of fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids move and the forces on them, dates back to the Ancient Greeks.-Archimedes:The fundamental principles of hydrostatics were given by Archimedes in his work On Floating Bodies, around 250 BC. In it, Archimedes develops the law of buoyancy, also...

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The David Taylor Model Basin

David Taylor Model Basin

The David Taylor Model Basin is one of the largest ship model basins — test facilities for the development of ship design — in the world...

 is located in this facility. The facility also hosts a yearly math competition styled after MathCounts

MathCounts

Mathcounts is a middle school mathematics competition held in the United States. Its founding sponsors include the CNA Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The competition is designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth...

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History

This facility was previously known as the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center. The Center was renamed "David Taylor Research Center (DTRC)" in 1987 and became the "Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center" in 1992.

External links

• NSWC Carderock Division - official NAVSEA Web site