NSWC leveraging prototype sensors

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City scientists are providing national munitions response support by leveraging prototype sensors for transition to fleet assets. The Panama City team conducted a munitions response survey Sept. 19-17 in the Potomac River near Dahlgren, Va., in collaboration with Alion Science and Technology Corp., Edgetech Inc., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and Polatomic Inc. to deliver an integrated magneto-acoustic detection system mounted on a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle. The next opportunity for the sensor prototype to be used will be at the Coalition Warfare Program’s Joint Pacific Survey to be conducted in San Diego from Oct. 24–Nov. 8. The goal of that survey is to push the limits of unmanned unexploded ordnance (UXO) science and technology, and leveraging up mine countermeasure capabilities from both U.S. and German navies. (Source: NSWC Panama City 10/04/17)