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NSWC Panama City adds new facility to impact fleet subsea and seabed, mine warfare missions
February 12, 2025 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) continued its commitment to warfighter solutions with the addition of its new Acoustic Test Facility and Instrumentation building during a ribbon-cutting ceremony onboard Naval Support Activity Panama City, Feb. 5. This 1,400 square foot facility will provide instrumentation, data acquisition, and electronics staging areas, supporting the NSWC PCD Acoustic Test & Calibration Pier Service Cost Center. It will enable the Navy lab’s team to develop and test advanced sensors, systems, payloads, and platforms for subsea and seabed warfare and mine warfare mission areas...

Adair selected as NSWC Panama City technical director
August 17, 2020 — Dr. Peter Adair was recently selected for a new role as the technical director at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD).In this role, Adair serves as the senior civilian at the command, which consists of more than 1,500 military and government civilians. NSWC PCD provides the Navy with mine warfare, naval special warfare,...

MCM USV testing continues despite Coronavirus limitations
April 2, 2020 — The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Off-board Systems Development Branch are continuing to meet mission requirements during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.The Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MSM USV) project team is supporting contractor testing onboard NSWC PCD using the Coastal Test Range (CTR)...

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...

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