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NSWC Panama City Division’s MEASUR: Revolutionizing underwater safety through subsea recognition
July 8, 2026 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division scientists are revolutionizing subsea battle damage assessment with a groundbreaking initiative called MEASUR (Mission Effectiveness & Assessment with Subsea Recognition). By equipping unmanned underwater vehicles with advanced sensors and AI, this system represents a significant leap forward in how the U.S. Navy evaluates underwater threats and infrastructure. This innovative approach provides combatant commanders with rapid, reliable data to accelerate decision-making and keep our warfighters safe in contested waters. MEASUR is funded by the Naval Innovative Science and Engineering program, which is one of the Navy's most powerful mechanisms for launching technologies that Navy Labs produce into the hands of the warfighter...

NSWC PCD enhances U.S. Navy autonomous solutions through real-time innovation
August 4, 2025 — To remain the strongest and most lethal force in the world, the U.S. Navy must maintain superiority in a complex and rapidly evolving world. One way this is accomplished is by incorporating subject matter experts in data integration and real-time analysis to generate, capture, and use data to fight and win, and Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama...

NSWC Panama City, BYU develop and test algorithms for dynamic multi-UUV bathymetry localization
May 23, 2024 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) and Brigham Young University (BYU) are collaborating to develop techniques that enable teams of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to cooperatively maintain an accurate, location estimate while operating for long periods of time in submerged scenarios. Through the development of...

Navy and Industry Partners Complete Production Mk 18 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Systems
February 3, 2023 — Washington – The Navy announced today a significant milestone in the delivery of unmanned undersea warfighting capability to the fleet. Production of the MK 18 Mod 2 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) program of record has completed.Managed by the Expeditionary Missions program office under the Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small...

NSWC PCD provides One Team support to NUWC Newport, HII to deliver launch and recovery capabilities
October 24, 2022 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) and HII entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) entitled Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) Launch and Recovery (LAR) Testing, Sept. 1, 2022.Pharos is a new HII LAR system which was built to operate with large unmanned underwater vehicles like Naval Undersea...

Underwater Energy Transfer to Expand UUV Capability
August 20, 2015 — The Navy uses UUVs for many types of missions, including the location and identification of underwater threats such as mines, ocean floor mapping, and optimizing remote sensing platforms. The ability to use wireless technology to charge UUV batteries while underwater may significantly decrease time between missions, improving overall utility...

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