CECD Turns 10 and Celebrates its Achievements
College Park, MD, December 14, 2008
On December 14, 1998, the University of Maryland and the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center signed a cooperative agreement to create the Center for Energetic Concepts Development (CECD), formalizing their alliance and giving roots to seed ideas that had been generated long before. Instrumental in creating CECD were: Dr. Davinder K Anand, Dr. Ron Armstrong, Dr. William Fourney, Ms. Evan Crieri, Dr. Chester Clark, Dr. James Short, Mr. Robert Kavetsky, Ms. Lisa Davie, Mr. Mark Eagles, and Ms. Penny Kennedy. Also present at the ribbon cutting that December day were UMD and NWSC officials: Dr. Daniel Mote, Dr. William Destler, Mr. Roger Smith, Dr. Ira Blatstein, and CAPT John Walsh.
On December 14, 2008, CECD turned 10 and celebrates its achievements in advancing the field of energetics and training the next generation of energetics experts. Some important activities over the ten-year period include the following:
• CECD/NSWC IH Collaboration has led to the signing of two five-year cooperative agreements for a total of $8.9M in CECD research covering 130 technical projects.
• Fifty-two scientists and engineers from NSWC and 31 faculty and researchers from UMD worked on those projects.
• CECD established a graduate program to train the next generation of high technology experts in the field of energetics. NSWCIH has provided. Some of the graduate courses have been taught by prominent NSWC IH scientists.
• From 2003-2008, University of Maryland has awarded 26 MS degrees and 11 PhD degrees supported by CECD funds.
• In 2004, CECD formalized The Southern Maryland Development Initiative for Energetic Capability and signed an MOU with NSWC IH and CSM.
• In 2006, CECD established the Energetics Technology Center (ETC), a private, non profit enterprise, with 501(c)(3) status, in La Plata, Maryland. ETC
Today, CECD continues to work with NSWC IH and ETC to conduct a wide range of science and technology activities to advance the development of energetic systems and to recapitalize the nation’s energetics workforce.
