[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 17817-17818]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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.

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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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