Katie Kiernan

Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD)

Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) consists of approximately 3,200 scientists, engineers and support personnel working in more than 40 disciplines ranging from fundamental science to applied/in-service engineering. We are the Navy's experts for maritime technology and currently house world-class facilities and laboratories. As a major component and field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Carderock Division provides cradle-to-grave support for its technical products over an enormous range of scientific areas related to surface and undersea platforms. The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Navy or NAVSEA of the linked websites, or the information, products or services contained therein.   This is a family friendly open forum, so please keep your comments and wall posts clean by following our community guidelines below. Comments and posts that do not follow these guidelines will be removed. Repeat offenders may be banned from posting or commenting on our page.   • No graphic, obscene, explicit or racial comments or submissions, nor comments that are abusive, hateful or intended to defame anyone or any organization.   • No solicitations or advertisements nor partisan political content in favor of or opposed to issues or personalities in the public arena. This includes promotion or endorsement of any financial, commercial or non-governmental agency.   • No comments that suggest or encourage illegal activity.   • No comments that may tend to, or are designed specifically to, diminish confidence or respect for members of the NAVSEA chain of command, or the command at large.   • Keep comments on posts on topic, and do not attempt to "troll" other people by making comments on posts that are untrue, misleading, off topic or are deliberately provocative.   • Refrain from OPSEC violations.   For more info on the DoD Social Media user agreement: http://dodcio.defense.gov/SocialMedia/UserAgreement.aspx