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JOINT FIELD BRIEFING 



Regional Opportunities In Leveraging Oceanographlc Research for 



Defense and Non-defense Industries and Activities 



22 January 1996 



Praparad Statarasat of Dr. Joha B. Sixmalls 

 Tachnlcal Diractor, Haval Undarsaa Warfara Cantar 



The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the Navy's full- 

 spectrum research, development, test, evaluation, engineering, and 

 Fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater 

 systems, undersea offensive and defensive weapon systems, and 

 countermeasures associated with undersea warfare. 



NUWC, headquartered at Newport, Rhode Island, has two major 

 divisions, one at Newport and another at Keyport, Washington. In 

 addition, NUWC detachments exist across the continental United 

 States, as well as Hawaii and the Bahamas. 



Areas of technical excellence at the Newport Division include 

 ocaan physics, hydrodynamics, acoustics, signal processing, 

 undarsaa raaga and matarlals tachnologlas, numerical 

 modeling and analysis, engineering analysis, information 

 processing, warfara siaulatlon, siibmarlna alactromagnatlcs, 

 unaannad undarsaa vahicla propulsion and .control, and 

 weapon systems targeting and control. 



I would emphasize that ocaan physics and undarsaa ranga 

 and matarlals tachnologlas have traditionally been among our 

 principal areas of excellence. NUWC and its predecessor 

 laboratories have contributed significantly to fundamental 

 knowledge in ocean physics. For exan^le, key mechanisms which 

 control the absorption of sound in sea water were discovered here. 



Since the 1860 's, with the start of the Torpedo Station on 

 Goat Island, we have always looked at Narragansett Bay and 

 surrounding waters as our undersea "laboratory." Today this real- 

 world laboratory begins in the Gulf of Maine, where we do very 

 limited, but highly valuable, torpedo testing in shallow water, 

 and extends all the way to Long Island Sound, where we have a 

 sophisticated Submarine Antenna Test Complex that is the best in 

 the world. 



With the recent emphasis on Naval Expeditionary Warfare to 

 deal with regional conflicts, much of the focus in undersea 

 warfare has shifted to supporting capabilities for joint 

 expeditionary forces operating in littoral waters. NUWC technical 

 efforts are reflecting this new emphasis on the shallow water of 

 the littoral regions, and our technology development and 

 evaluation programs require an increasing use of the shallow water 

 areas and test facilities that comprise the Newport Littoral 



