For years, community leaders in Newport have watched as the nearby Naval Undersea Warfare Center has farmed out billions of dollars in contracts to civilian businesses both near and far. While NUWC’s growth has drawn new high-technology industries to coastal Rhode Island since it was reorganized in 1992, the City by the Sea has been
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Thank you PBN and Scott Blake for a comprehensive article. Given the close proximity of NUWC to City Hall, you’d think that our local state, city, and school leaders would have a strong understanding of NUWC, its many career opportunities for local youth and NUWC’s contribution to our local economy. Across my 25 years in Newport, I’m hard-pressed to recall even one inquisitive comment from a school teacher, principal, superintendent, school committee member, city council member, or city manager. To them, NUWC was just an acronym. Now that NUWC and Electric Boat are challenged by waves of retirements, you’d expect that Newport’s three schools would have a new laser focus on boosting its poor STEM achievement. But, alas, the local civic energy is now focused on funding and building a $180 Million “Taj Mahal” high school that’s as far away from NUWC as one can get in Newport. Around here, “innovation” remains an alien, textbook concept.