Ship Mechanical Systems facilities in MD
8 facilities
Advanced Shipboard Machinery Development Facility
West Bethesda, MD
This facility is dedicated to the test and evaluation of reduced scale and full scale advanced naval propulsion and auxiliary systems, equipment, and enabling technologies. It comprises laboratories for the development, rapid prototyping, and demonstration of: advanced turbomachinery, refrigeration and ventilation systems including collective protection systems, shipboard hydraulics systems and equipment, seals and bearings, composite machinery, submarine shaftline components, and small diesel engines. It also houses a test area to conduct cyclic displacement and pressure fatigue tests of piping and piping components.
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Test Facility
West Bethesda, MD
The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Test Facility supports Surface and Undersea Vehicle Auxiliary Systems and Components T&E;, Acquisition, ISE, Environmental and Logistics. Materials and Processing RDT&E; for surface and submarine ship classes. Materials and components investigated at these facilities include: alternative CFC’s, air conditioning and refrigeration, ventilation, oxygen generation and air purification systems for surface ship and submarines.
Boiler Components Test Facility
West Bethesda, MD
The Boiler Components Test Facility supports surface machinery propulsion auxiliary machinery system and component RDT&E; and In Service Engineering for numerous ship classes. Typical components and/or tests performed include: combustion optimizers for fuel efficiency, gas analysis systems for environmental compliance considerations, smoke indicator systems, burner systems, control systems, fuel oil control valves, strainers, fuel oil pumps, boiler water level indicating systems and newly designed boiler refractory.
Cargo/Weapons Elevator Land Based Engineering Site
West Bethesda, MD
The Cargo and Weapons Facility consists of a suite of full scale and component test facilities contiguously located in building 77H. The site was constructed in 1987 to address and solve the technical problems encountered from the diverse population of these systems in the Fleet (i.e., over 600 different types of elevators, 21 different capacities, 250 different designs and 64 different manufacturers). It includes: a full scale, 6 story Cargo/Weapons Elevator Land Based Engineering Site, a vertical package conveyor test site having three shipboard type conveyors, temperature and humidity controlled machinery, electrical control and power unit rooms and modular layout to facilitate shipboard configuration and other testing that is cost prohibitive at sea.
Combatant Craft Department
West Bethesda, MD
The Combatant Craft Department (CCD) has performed full life-cycle and full-spectrum support for combatant craft and boats from its facilities located in the Hampton Roads area since 1967. With facilities near the largest and most varied inventory of DoD and boats and craft in the United States, CCD supports the U.S. Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Special Warfare/Special Operations, Air Force, Coast Guard, and other DoD and non-DoD activities including private industry.
Electrical Power Technology Facility
West Bethesda, MD
This laboratory supports the development of advanced shipboard machinery control and electric power distribution and solid state conversion technology. It contains multiple sources of electrical power (single or three phase voltages under 600 volts, variable frequency from 60 to 400 Hz, and direct current up to 900 volts) to simulate and test various ship system conditions for solving fleet problems with new equipment or technology. Among the diverse uses of the laboratory are: development of advanced power generation and distribution components; system performance assessment; computer simulation of large machinery systems and development of control algorithms; development of advanced sensors and instrumentation; development of advanced power conversion topologies and advanced semiconductor device application up to several hundred kilowatts; development of submarine power-conditioning equipment for improved power quality and reduced submarine radiated noise; development of high power and pulsed power distribution systems and components; and development of innovative electrical distribution system or component designs for reduced noise. This facility is also used to assess advanced technical capabilities for meeting future Navy weapon system needs.
IR Systems
West Bethesda, MD
IR Systems consist of two portable, calibrated infrared measurement systems that nominally operable in the 3-5 and 8-12 micron bands. Each lens system is capable of operating either land-based and ship or helicopter mounted for rapid collection of test data. The systems are typically used to make IR measurements of ships, craft and wakes
Undersea Vehicle Sail and Deployed Systems Facility
West Bethesda, MD
The Undersea Vehicle Sail and Deployed Systems Facility supports the technical capability for in-service engineering, full scale test and evaluation, research/design support, acquisition and life cycle engineering for undersea vehicle sail and deployed system Hull, Mechanical and Electrical equipment.