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NSWC Panama City photographers ‘click’ with Littoral battlespace mission
April 18, 2019 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) has over 150 projects currently being developed to improve lethality of the Fleet and a small group of specially trained photographers are dedicated to the success of that mission... MORE

Anthony Powers, NSWC PCD photographer, is Navy SCUBA certified through the US Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center (NDSTC) and enjoys that no two days in his job are ever the same.

View from the Bridge - April 2019
April 11, 2019 — NSWC PCD Team,This month marks six months since Hurricane Michael ripped through the Panhandle and forever changed our lives and our landscape. Many of your homes are in need of repair and many of your office spaces are in similar condition. Despite all this, you continue to emulate what it means to be the undisputed technical experts throughout... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division Commanding Officer Capt. Aaron Peters, USN

New technology keeps Sailors safe, out of minefields
April 11, 2019 — Engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) recently completed a flight test using a device that will prevent Navy personnel from having to enter a minefield during mine hunting and clearing missions... MORE

The Airborne Surface Quad Thruster Interface Device, or ASQUID, attaches to the side of a MH-60 helicopter and allows the crew to lowers a MK-18 into the water to search for mines preventing Navy personnel from having to enter a minefield.

NSWC Panama City Engineer Selected for Deputy Technical Director Staff Assignment
April 9, 2019 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Engineer Danielle Kinkade is trading her hands-on mine warfare programs for an opportunity to set sail on a one-year rotational assignment supporting Command leadership staff as the Technical Assistant to the Division Technical Director... MORE

Danielle Kincaid has been selected for one-year rotational assignment supporting Command leadership staff as the Technical Assistant to the Division Technical Director at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division.

U.S. Navy Successfully Completes Developmental Testing of ‘Q-20C Towed Minehunting Sonar
April 8, 2019 — After completing Developmental Testing (DT) in February of 2019, the U.S. Navy is another step closer to delivering the AN/AQS-20C (Q-20C) towed minehunting sonar to the Fleet. The Q-20C has advanced acoustic and electro-optic sensing capabilities that will detect, localize and classify bottom, close-tethered, moored, and volume-moored mines... MORE

The AN/AQS-20C Towed Mine-hunting Sonar is streamed into Gulf of Mexico waters of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division Gulf test range. Developmental Testing was completed on Feb. 12, 2019.

NSWC Panama City Team Receives Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
April 1, 2019 — The LED Air Warning System (LAWS) team from Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD), in collaboration with local academia and an industry partner, has been selected by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) to receive one of its highest honors – a 2019 Excellence in Technology Transfer (T2) Award... MORE

PANAMA CITY, Florida - The LED Air Warning System team from Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division, in collaboration with local academia and an industry partner, has been selected by the Federal Laboratory Consortium to receive one of its highest honors – a 2019 Excellence in Technology Transfer. Award. Pictured from left to right: Paige George, Allie Williams, Tien Le, Dennis Gallagher, Hayden DeForge, and Brian Wentworth. U.S. Navy phoot by Eddie Green

Navy Develops and Tests Rapid Pressure Fluctuation Chamber to Study Physiological Events
March 25, 2019 — A Navy team is developing a solution for detecting symptoms associated with rapid pressure fluctuations in military jets, a phenomenon associated with physiological events (PE) in the E/A-18G and F/A-18 weapon systems... MORE

PANAMA CITY, Florida – Research Physiologist Lt. Travis Doggett, center, directs aircrew via radio during simulated flight in the Fluctuating Altitude Simulation Technology (FAST) system Jan. 14, 2019 at Navy Experimental Diving Unit. The system was developed and built by Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division.

Pearl Harbor Minesweeper Ship Bell arrives at NSWC PCD
March 13, 2019 — The bell from the USS Tern, a lapwing-class minesweeper, that rescued 47 men and fought fires on the USS West Virginia and USS Arizona for two days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor will soon be on display in the lobby of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD)... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s (NSWC PCDs) historical item in residence, the USS Tern bell. The bell will be housed in the entryway lobby of building 110. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command)

Navy Mentors Challenge Students at 2019 Regional SeaPerch Competition
March 12, 2019 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) scientists and engineers partnered with academia March 8 and challenged students to a regional SeaPerch competition at the University of West Florida. Students at this year’s event prepared their remotely operated vehicles (ROV) to compete by navigating through an obstacle and a challenge course... MORE

Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division Engineers Tien Le, Ludger Denis, Trent Fruhwirth, and Jessica Morgan keep time and score the SeaPerch teams.

PRESS RELEASE: Navy Base Hosts Budding Engineers at Inaugural STEMinar
March 6, 2019 — Nine students from Patronis Elementary School showed off their FIRST Lego League robot designs to Navy scientists and engineers during Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s (NSWC PCD) inaugural STEMinar event March 6, 2019... MORE

Patronis Elementary School Robotics League Student operates an underwater robot during Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s (NSWC PCD) inaugural STEMinar event March 6. The long term goal for STEM Outreach at NSWC PCD is to make it clear that NSWC PCD is the employer of choice in the area.

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