Update: ANTX 2017 & Panama City

The third annual Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) 2017 is a multi-site event taking place Aug. 15-16 at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City, Florida’s operational area and Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Narragansett Bay Test Facility in Newport, R.I. The theme for the exercise is “Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment.” The unclassified exercise enables Navy stakeholders to see future in-water technologies in action. Industry partners, warfare centers and universities have been invited test new unmanned systems and related technologies at NSWC Panama City’s ranges and facilities. Most of the activities will happen in Rhode Island. Some areas being addressed for this exercise are mine countermeasures, ocean mapping, exercising algorithms, and tactics and technical procedures. ANTX provides a low-risk, low-loss environment where engineers, developers, and scientists can evaluate technologies and interact with members of the naval operations community (Source: NAVSEA 07/17) UPDATED INFO: It will be the first time NSWC Panama City will participate in the ANTX. NSWCPC will host more than 30 displays and demonstrations along the pier as well as in the waters of St. Andrew Bay where unmanned underwater vehicles will be tested and demonstrated for ANTX attendees. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 6 Detachment at Panama City will conduct a pouncing demonstration in the bay waters Aug. 15, at 11 a.m. Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Adm. Phil Davidson and the U.S. Navy's Director of Expeditionary Warfare Maj. Gen David W. Coffman will serve as NSWCPC's ANTX keynote speakers.