NEDU trains Montenegro Navy divers

MONTENEGRO - U.S. Navy Divers from the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) at Panama City, Fla., spent two weeks training to Montenegrin Navy divers, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians, special warfare personnel, and medics. Training topics focused on diving safety and supervision; mission-planning, medical diagnosis, treatment, and evacuation of diving emergencies; and advanced dive medicine. In addition, NEDU and Montenegrin divers shared techniques and procedures to improve NATO interoperability for both nations. This program is designed to “enhance operational readiness skills of Navy and Montenegrin divers, and helps develop the Montenegrin Navy Underwater Mine Counter Measures (UMCM) program,” said DoD Underwater HMA Program Manager Bill Grau, and also improves the safety of Montenegro citizens. The training was funded by the USEUCOM Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) Program. DoD’s Humanitarian Demining Training Center (HDTC) led the project management and mission planning. The program has provided training and equipment to Montenegro since 2012. (Source: NAVSEA 02/13/19) NEDU is a premier diving and hyperbaric research, test and evaluation unit located aboard Naval Support Activity Panama City. NEDU partners with war-fighters to develop timely, cost-effective solutions to support and improve manned operations in undersea and other extreme environments through biomedical research and independent testing and evaluation of equipment and procedures. Contract: EPS Corp. of Tinton Falls, N.J., is awarded a $10,980,406 modification to a previously awarded hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to exercise an option for technical expertise in the development and testing of underwater weapons and underwater weapons systems components. Two percent of that work will be done in Montenegro, and is expected to be complete by February 2020. Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head (Md.)’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 02/13/19)