Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT)
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division,
Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) is the Navy's principal
research, development, test and evaluation
center for submarine warfare systems, submarine
weapon systems, and submarine surface ship
sonar systems. Our 2000 strong scientific
and engineering staff provides expertise in
science and technology; technical direction;
and system design, development, test and evaluation.
NUWCDIVNPT is on the forefront of developing
and maintaining the best scientific and technical
facilities for underwater research, supporting
many important Navy programs and helping minimize
risk and cost of operations. We are also the
designers of virtually all underwater acoustic
sensors and weapons systems operating in the
Fleet today, and we introduced the use of
a supercomputer onboard a submarine. Working
closely with the Fleet, our scientist and
engineers meet current and future operational
requirements and solve technical problems.
They also provide expertise in undersea warfare
systems and technology to defense strategists
and Navy planners.
Acoustics: Sound propagation
in various ocean environments including ray
and mode analysis, noise reduction research,
target strength analysis and coating design,
specular and scattering mechanisms of undersea
vehicles, transducers, transducer array and
parametric sonar designs, holographic modeling,
sonar prediction and acoustical systems. Acoustic
metrology including calibration, test, evaluate
and reference measurements, the science of
electrical and mechanical excitation of acoustic
transducers.
Numerical Analysis: Computational
fluid dynamics, computational fluid structure
interaction, dynamic simulation, sound fields
and sonar array configuration, finite element
analysis, long range acoustic detection, localization
and tracking, decoy studies, underwater electromagnetism,
nonlinear composites.
Communications: Electromagnetic
methodologies for communication to submarines,
underwater acoustic communications, optical
communication systems, imaging, electro-optics,
stealth.
Optics: Fiber optic sensors,
arrays, umbilicals, underwater laser applications,
periscope focusing and photography.
Signal and Information Processing:
Active and passive full spectrum
acoustic signal processing (detection, classification,
localization and tracking), adaptive filtering
and beamforming techniques, computer-aided
decision making, cognitive neuroscience, neural
networks, time-frequency analysis, data compression,
higher order spectral estimation, radiated
noise modeling, surface ship computer architecture,
real time software generation.
Hydrodynamics: Computational
fluid dynamics, computational fluid structure
interaction turbulence models, drag reduction
techniques, boundary layer experimentation,
hull shapes, flow fields complex incompressible
flows, two body vehicle interactions.
Underwater Propulsion: Thermal
and electric propulsion research including
all phases of chemical and electrochemical
energy sources and prime-mover research, development
and evaluation of high energy and power dense
systems up to 1000 horsepower. High power
electronics, motor speed controllers, power
dense AC and DC motors.
Chemistry/Materials: Fuels
research, electrochemistry of high density
energy batteries and air-independent fuel
cells, polymer chemistry, acoustical materials,
composite materials and properties of materials,
transduction materials.
Ocean Sciences/Technology: Studies
of ocean fronts, microstructure and internal
waves, coastal oceanography, sound absorption
and chemical relaxation, volume scattering,
bottom sediments, dynamic properties of bottom
materials and interaction with sound in the
water column. Ocean engineering applications,
structural mechanics, test platforms, underwater
range technology, sensors.
Systems Engineering: Simulation
based design, submarine and surface ship sonar,
underwater weapons, countermeasures, targets,
underwater ranges, weapon system integration
and control, submarine electromagnetics, weapon
launchers.
Other Major Technical Disciplines:
Applied mechanics, electronic and mechanical
engineering, general engineering, mathematics
and statistical analysis, physics, computer
engineering, chemistry/chemical engineering,
cognitive neuroscience, synthetic environments,
undersea warfare modeling and simulation,
at sea data collection and analysis.
Only U.S. citizens will be considered
for positions at this lab.
