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Panama City contracting officer impacts littoral, mine systems warfighting readiness
April 17, 2025 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) strives to apply its expertise to emerging subsea and seabed warfare mission areas to support U.S. Navy dominance within the littoral battlespace. Yet these results of balanced science and technology, and research, development, testing and evaluation do not happen without contributions... MORE

Ms. Anna Belle Tiller, NSWC PCD contracting officer, is presented the Dept. of the U.S. Navy's Civilian Service Achievement Medal by Capt. Paul Stence, Jr., NSWC PCD commanding officer, March 14. Her actions to ensure the fleet can continue receiving in-service engineering agent support on the unmanned surface vehicles being deployed as part of the mine countermeasure mission package on littoral combat ships resulted in cost savings of nearly $80M. (U.S. Navy photo by Eddie Green)

NSWC PCD recognizes top performers at 2024 annual awards ceremony
April 16, 2025 — The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) celebrated the exceptional achievements of its workforce at the 2024 Commanding Officer (CO) and Technical Director’s (TD) Annual Awards Ceremony, March 27.Dating back to 1975, the NSWC PCD Annual Awards recognizes the top talent and contributions each fiscal year and has grown in... MORE

FY24 NSWC PCD Outstanding Team Achievement Annual Award: Electronic Procurement Systems Implementation Team – Tyler Bounds, Tommy Chatman, Jessica Clark, Rob Griffith, Andrew Johns, Dr. Jessica Johnson, Jamell Kilgore, Trivia Massaline, Nicole Stevens, Kaitlin Summerville, and Jason Zimmerman. This team volunteered to be NAVSEA’s early adopter of the new contract writing system - EPS - which is an integral part of supporting NAVSEA’s Campaign to “Transform Digital Capability.” (U.S. Navy photo by Eddie Green)

Panama City scientist receives U.S. Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award
July 22, 2024 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division's (NSWC PCD) workforce directly contributes to the research and development of cutting-edge technologies and tools to increase the warfighter’s efficiency and effectiveness of the Navy readiness. One specific contribution led to an NSWC PCD scientist being awarded the Department of Navy Meritorious... MORE

Dr. Isaac Sledge, Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division scientist, was recently awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award. His work yielded unprecedented results in automatic target recognition (ATR) applications.

NSWC Panama City recognizes milestone annual achievements
March 31, 2023 — Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) gathered to highlight the outstanding work and people committed to delivering technologies, solutions, and support to the U.S. Navy during their Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Awards Ceremony held at Gulf Coast State College, March 24.Also known as the Commanding Officer and Technical Director... MORE

(left) Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division Commanding Officer Capt. David Back and (right) Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD technical director, present the Fiscal Year 2022 Outstanding Program Success Award to members of the Navy Lab's Mine Countermeasures Mission Package Tactics & Analysis Project Team at the NSWC PCD Annual Awards Ceremony, March 24. This year, more than 250 individuals were recognized across 14 categories. (U.S. Navy photo by Eddie Green)

NSWC PCD engineer receives Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for excellence
April 14, 2022 — Passion, drive, perseverance and attention to detail are just some of the superlatives which have been used to describe Stephen (Rusty) Weathers, Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Airborne Mine Neutralization System (AMNS) lead systems engineer.The results he produced using these same qualities has led to him being... MORE

(left) Capt. David Back, Naval Surface Warfare Center commanding officer and (right) Dr. Peter Adair, NSWC PCD technical director present Stephen (Rusty) Weathers, NSWC PCD Airborne Mine Neutralization System lead systems engineer with the Department of the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award on March 28. As a result of Weathers' system-of-system approach, the program realized a $66M cost avoidance due to his analysis and bringing forth his recommendation to change the maintenance philosophy of the Launch and Handling System from a required 5-year overhaul to a performance based overhaul. (U.S. Navy photo by Anthony Powers)

NSWC Panama City Division celebrates 2021 Annual Awards excellence
April 7, 2022 — Over 100 exceptional personnel were recognized at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Annual Awards Ceremony held at Gulf Coast State College (GCSC), March 25.The ceremony marked the first in-person annual awards ceremony since the start of the pandemic. The award process has a six-week nomination period where any... MORE

These Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Annual Awards trophies would be handed to award recipients at a ceremony held at Gulf Coast State College (GCSC), March 25. This year, 74 nominations for teams and individuals across 15 award categories were received to celebrate the accomplishments of 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Eddie Green)

NSWC Dahlgren Division Institutionalizes ‘Technical Excellence Framework’ to Ensure Warfighter Success
August 13, 2019 — DAHLGREN, Va. – Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) institutionalized its Technical Excellence Framework to make a difference in the Fleet in terms of capability, quality, security and safety of warfare mission critical products, the command announced Aug. 13.The positive impact on warfare mission critical products and systems... MORE

IMAGE: PACIFIC OCEAN (June 23, 2010) The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) successfully launches its second Tomahawk missile during weapons testing. Sterett is underway off the coast of Southern California conducting Tomahawk missile testing in preparation for an upcoming deployment.

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