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The Energetics Technology
Center (ETC) is a result of the tireless work of the
following partner organizations
Center for Energetic
Concepts Development (CECD)
 The
Center for Energetic Concepts Development (CECD) is the
ETC’s parent organization. It is an alliance established
in 1998 between NSWC Indian Head and the University of
Maryland College Park (UMCP). It is headquartered in the
Department of
Mechanical Engineering within the James Clark School
of Engineering.
The CECD is led by
Dr. Dave K. Anand, professor emeritus and former chair of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at UMCP.
The CECD conceived the
ETC as an expansion of its work in Energetics research
and education in partnership with NSWC Indian Head.
Naval Surface Warfare
Center, Indian Head Division
 NSWC
Indian Head, through its partnership with UMCP’s
Mechanical Engineering Department, is a principal
stakeholder in the ETC. Throughout its 116-year history,
NSWC Indian Head has been in the forefront of naval
ordnance testing, research, and development.
The site on the Indian
Head peninsula was originally used as a naval proving
ground beginning in 1890. During the 20th century, its
function was expanded to include manufacturing and
testing of explosives and propellants. It was during
this phase that naval ordnance was revolutionized with
the discovery of smokeless and flashless powders. After
World War II, Indian Head became the home of the first
complete facility devoted to the research and
development of solid propellants for all types of
weapons.
Today, in addition to
being the Navy’s premier Energetics laboratory, the base
still serves as a testing and scale-up site for a broad
range of propellants, pyrotechnics, and plastic-bonded
explosives used in naval ordnance.
College of Southern
Maryland
 The
College of Southern Maryland (CSM) is a public, regional
community college with a far-reaching mission-to help
our students and community meet the challenges of
individual, social, and global changes.
In cooperation with the College of Southern Maryland the
ETC will provide classroom space and training tools to
educate the Energetics workforce of the future,
including qualified technicians and scientists and
engineers with advanced degrees in Energetics.
Industrial Partners
Relationships will be
established with various industrial partners with the
help of the already-established Board of Advisors of
ETC.
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