[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 150 (Wednesday, November 17, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1938]
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IN HONOR OF THE NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER, CARDEROCK DIVISION--SHIP 
         SYSTEM ENGINEERING STATION (NSWCCD-SSES) PHILADELPHIA

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                            HON. JOE SESTAK

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 17, 2010

  Mr. SESTAK. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize the 100th Anniversary 
of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division--Ship System 
Engineering Station, NSWCCD-SSES, at the Philadelphia Naval Business 
Center. Since 1910, when Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop 
authorized the first funding be directed to what is now the Ship 
Systems Engineering Station, SSES, that organization has served our 
community, Navy and nation with great distinction.
  Today, SSES executes a budget of over $380 million and employs 1,600 
engineers, scientists, technicians and support personnel. That 
workforce reflects the hard working, industrious nature of dedicated 
patriotic Americans throughout the Delaware Valley. The results of 
their labor are a stronger nation and safer world. With the singular 
purpose of sending USN Bluejackets to sea with the best possible 
equipment, this proud organization, under the leadership of Rear 
Admiral Jim Shannon, Captain Alexander Desroches and Patricia Woody 
maintains a covenant between our citizens and Sailors. It guarantees 
that our Navy will always be better designed, built and maintained than 
any other in the world. In conflicts for a century, our Navy has sailed 
into harms way with a quantitative advantage in readiness that is the 
result of those talented, dedicated professionals of SSES Philadelphia 
and their 54,000 colleagues of the Naval Sea Systems Command, NAVSEA, 
located in 34 cities across the United States and Asia. Together they 
help fulfill the vision of General George Washington, who wrote to 
Marquis De Lafayette nearly two hundred thirty years ago, ``It follows 
that as certain as the night succeeds the day that without a decisive 
naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it everything 
honorable and glorious.''
  As NAVSEA and NSWCCD-SSES work today to support our naval forces in 
two conflicts, it is my honor to join all the good citizens of the 7th 
Congressional District of Pennsylvania and Americans throughout this 
great nation in recognizing their 100 years of excellence in naval 
engineering and wish them another century of continued success in every 
endeavor.

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