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U.S. Navy Photo by Petty Of? cer 2nd Class Heath Zeigler/Released

Aqua Harmonic’s wave powered single point generator is demonstrated dur- ing an innovation showcase in the

Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin in

Carderock, Md.

Jessica McElman, an electrical engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, adjusts a magnetic ? eld sensor in the model track located in the Magnetic Fields Laboratory in

West Bethesda, Md.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in from Tennessee to Idaho.

West Bethesda, Md., is one of the world’s leading centers for Carderock’s Combat Craft division in Little Creek, Va., surface and underwater hydrodynamic expertise, research and manages a number of small craft projects to include design, design, to include world-class facilities for experimentation, construction, acquisition and sustainment.

testing, evaluation and validation. The South Tongue of the Ocean Acoustic Measurement Fa- “We build scale models of ship designs and can test these cility (STAFAC) in the Bahamas and the Southeast Alaska hull forms in our facilities to measure hydrodynamic load Acoustic Measurement Facility (SEAFAC) near Ketchikan, on the structure or evaluate seakeeping abilities,” said Mike Alaska, feature underwater arrays to perform high