New Submarine Named USS Idaho
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus hosted a ship-naming ceremony today to announce that SSN 799, a Virginia-class attack submarine, will bear the name USS Idaho. The submarine will be named to honor the history its namesake state has with the Navy. Idaho is home to the former Farragut Naval Training Station, which was the second largest training facility in the world during World War II. From the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) located within the Idaho National Laboratory, trained nearly 40,000 Navy personnel in surface and submarine nuclear power plant operations with three nuclear propulsion prototypes including the first nuclear-powered submarine prototype, S1W.
Jebsen Appointed as Director For Ship Signatures at Navy Laboratory
Gary M. Jebsen has been elevated to the Senior Executive Service (SES) and the position of Director for Ship Signatures in the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division (NSWCCD). In this role, the Leesburg, Virginia resident serves as both directorate head and leader of the Signatures Group in the Naval Seal Systems Command (NAVSEA). Gary shoulders the responsibility for naval and federal ship design and research, development, test and evaluation, and overall program management in the area of ship signature performance. He is leaving a successful assignment as Submarine Technology Program Manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Navy Tests New Stealth Destroyer
Bayview at Lake Pend Oreille in North Idaho is the site of the Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment. It is also the new home of the Sea Jet, a $16m, 130 foot-long scale model of the Navy's next-generation DDX destroyer. The Sea Jet has a new hull design and stealthy deck house. It is testing a new water jet propulsion system. The ship's jet-ski-like system is powered by an electric drive connected to batteries. It can power radar, sonar and other equipment on board. So far, the boat has sailed 16 straight days. Henry Netzer, director of the Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview, says most of the testing is done late at night. The Navy is hoping to begin building all electric ships within the next decade. (Source: KLXY)
ONR to Christen Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator
The Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator (AESD), Sea Jet, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is a 133-ft. vessel located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview, Idaho. Sea Jet will operate on Lake Pend Oreille, where it will be used for test and demonstration of various technologies. Among the first technologies tested will be an underwater discharge waterjet from Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, Inc., called AWJ-21, a propulsion concept with the goals of providing increased propulsive effiency, reduced acoustic signature, and improved maneuverability over previous Destroyer Class combatants. (U.S. Navy Photograph by John F.
Rolls-Royce Stealth System to Start Tests on New Navy Ship
JET, for the first time. Department in Bayview, Idaho. working without rudders, shafts and propeller struts. wake and improving stealth. waters. at low speeds.
Sea Jet Tests Advanced Water Propulsion
The new Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator (AESD) is expected to participate in trials on Lake Pend Oreille at the Carderock Division's Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD), Bayview, Idaho in mid-November. Recently christened Sea Jet, the 133-foot test platform houses a Rolls Royce Naval Marine advanced waterjet propulsion system, the AWJ-21, to improve surface ship efficiency and maneuverability by reducing noise and wake. Capt. Charles Behrle, Commander of the Carderock Division, says his organization is truly gratified to be part of a major technological leap that the AESD brings to the U.S. Navy. The AESD resembles an early DD (X) design. The steel platform displacement is about 120 tons. It was built by Dakota Creek Industries, Inc. (DCI), Anacortes, Washington.
