Participating Lab: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD)

NAWCAD is the Navy’s largest warfare center with a diverse force of military, civilians and contractors building the navy of today, the navy of tomorrow and the navy after next. The acquisition and sustainment of capability is a weapon of war -NAWCAD delivers! NAWCAD is where naval aviation takes flight through research, development, test and evaluation of both fielded and not-yet fielded naval platforms and technologies that ensure America’s Sailors and Marines always go into conflict with significant advantage.

Lab Address:
Patuxent River, MD

Lab Website:
https://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad/

Relevant Disciplines

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cell Biology
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Civil Engineering
  • Communications
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Network System Management
  • Computer Science
  • Cyber Security
  • Data Analysis
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Materials Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Microbiology
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Physics
  • Political Science

Research Opportunities Available

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NAWCAD-001

Materials Lab - Corrosion and Coatings

Research Opportunity Location:
Patuxent River, MD

Research Opportunity Description:
Work with the Corrosion Science and Coatings teams within the Materials Protection Technology Branch to collect data to show the impact of the severity of the environment on the degree of corrosion on representative aircraft samples, and the ability of different coating systems to protect against this corrosion.

Research Opportunity Skill Set:

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