The Pike District Partnership (PDP) is the advocacy and marketing engine that fosters connections and amplifies community voices to promote economic opportunities with a central purpose to position the Pike District’s success as North Bethesda’s Urban Core.  The PDP will continue the mission of The Friends of White Flint (FoWF) non-profit advocacy organization and the White Flint Downtown Advisory Committee (WFDAC) to support North Bethesda, Montgomery County’s newest economic core bringing together the business, entertainment, and residential components of a dynamic, mixed-use urban center. Driven by the core values of celebrating diversity, encouraging innovation, fostering entertainment, building community, and providing accessible transportation options, the PDP will focus on highlighting the vibrancy and economic development potential of the North Bethesda area. 

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD), headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, is the U.S. Navy's center of excellence for ships and ship systems. For more than 100 years, NSWCCD has helped preserve and enhance the nation’s presence on and under the seas. NSWCCD is the full-spectrum research and development, test and evaluation, engineering, and fleet support organization for the Navy’s ships, submarines, military watercraft, and unmanned vehicles with insight in to new concepts and diverse technologies for the Navy fleet of the 21st Century. NSWCCD’s expertise spans from naval architecture and marine engineering, to electrical and mechanical engineering, to computer engineering and physics.