Photo by Corum Byers | Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division | 08.28.2025
Mr. Adam Smith (right), an employee with the Fabrication and Technical Support Division, explains the assembly of the physical models to visitors at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda on Aug. 28, 2025. Pictured from left are: Mr. Matt Gutmann; Mr. Chris Miller, Executive Director of Naval Sea Systems Command; Mr. Tom Perotti, Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems......
Photo by Aaron Lebsack | Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific | 02.22.2024
240222-N-ZB499-1031 SAN DIEGO (Feb. 22, 2024) Retired model ships rest in the “bone yard” outside the ship model shop at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific in San Diego, Feb. 22, 2024. Testing antenna configurations on model ships before installing them on real ships 48 times the models’ size saves the Navy time and money by validating high-frequency radio communications......
Photo by Aaron Lebsack | Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific | 02.22.2024
240222-N-ZB499-1021 SAN DIEGO (Feb. 22, 2024) From left, Fred Blas, Bob O’Neill, Jun Peralta, modelers retired from Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, and Ben Wong, modeler at NIWC Pacific, pose behind a brass model of USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) in the ship model shop at NIWC Pacific in San Diego, Feb. 22, 2024. Among the four of them, Wong and his predecessors have ruled the......
Photo by Aaron Lebsack | Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific | 02.22.2024
240222-N-ZB499-1003 SAN DIEGO (Feb. 22, 2024) From left, Bob O’Neill, Fred Blas, Jun Peralta, modelers retired from Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, and Ben Wong, modeler at NIWC Pacific, pose in front of the tripod arch at the Antenna Model Range at NIWC Pacific in San Diego, Feb. 22, 2024. Among the four of them, Wong and his predecessors have ruled the Center’s ship......
Photo by Aaron Lebsack | Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific | 10.18.2023
231018-N-ZB499-1007 SAN DIEGO (Oct. 18, 2023) Ben Wong, modeler at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, poses in the Center’s ship model shop in San Diego, Oct. 18, 2023. Testing antenna configurations on model ships before installing them on real ships 48 times the models’ size saves the Navy time and money by validating high-frequency radio communications coverage before any......
Photo by Aaron Lebsack | Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific | 10.18.2023
231018-N-ZB499-1004 SAN DIEGO (Oct. 18, 2023) Ben Wong, modeler at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, adjusts a miniature satellite dish on a brass ship model in the Center’s model shop in San Diego, Oct. 18, 2023. Testing antenna configurations on model ships before installing them on real ships 48 times the models’ size saves the Navy time and money by validating......
Photo by Max Lonzanida | Hampton Roads Naval Museum | 07.13.2022
Lee Martin, a volunteer model shipbuilder at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum, interacts with visitors and fields questions about the ship model of the USS Constitution that he is working on. The museum is one of ten U.S. Navy museums within the Naval History and Heritage Command, and is home to a robust volunteer corps. (US Navy Photo by Max Lonzanida/Released)....
Photo by Ryan Hanyok | Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division | 06.26.2019
Colan Ratliff (left), a conservator in the Office of the Curator of Ship Models for the Navy, talks to Rear Adm. Eric Ver Hage (center), commander of Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers, and Capt. Cedric McNeal, commanding officer of Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, about the level of detail and accuracy in their ship models at Carderock’s headquarters in West......
