Laboratory Information:
Naval Surface Warfare Center - Panama City Division
110 Vernon Avenue
Code X14
Panama City, FL 32407-7001
Website: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/panamacity/default.aspx
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/panamacity/BusOps/CRADA.aspx
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Navy
Region: Southeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. Edward Linsenmeyer
Phone: 850-234-4161
Fax: 850-235-5374
Email: edward.linsenmeyer@navy.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
Coastal Systems
Station is situated on 648 acres on the western shore of St.
Andrew's Bay in Panama City, Fla. The station has five
major departments and employs more than 1,350 civilians and
130 military personnel. Coastal Systems Station is a major
research and development activity of the Naval Surface
Warfare Center, with another level of headquarters at
Dahlgren Division in Virginia. Because of the northwest
Florida location, employees have ready access to the
excellent natural resources, showplace facilities, and
state-of-the-art instrumentation needed to simulate, analyze,
develop and test equipment for the Navy's fleet. Station
employees have developed or significantly influenced
virtually every type of mine, torpedo and sonar
countermeasure in operations use today. As the name refers,
the Station is the leader in the development of systems that
operate in the coastal regions of the world.
Mission of the Laboratory:
The mission of
the Coastal Systems Station is to support the mission of the
Dahlgren Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center by
providing research, development, testing, and evaluation for
mine countermeasures, special warfare, amphibious warfare,
diving and other naval missions that take place primarily in
the coastal region. It also executes other responsibilities
as assigned by the Commander, Dahlgren Division, Naval
Surface Warfare Center.
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Facility Sharing
- Patents and Licensing
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Technical Assistance
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Hydrodynamic Design and Analysis
- Hyperbaric - Unmanned Testing
- Hyperbaric and Hypobaric testing of swimmer and diver equipment, deep sea and saturation dive systems, and fire fighting systems
- Image degradation evaluation
- Induction sensors
- Infrared Analysis
- Inservice engineering.
- Integrated Logistic Support (ILS)
- Integrated Logistical Support
- Acoustic Sensors
- Acquisition Support
- Algorithm processing
- Chemistry and Analysis
- Collection of monochromatic and multi spectral information via electro-optic, electro-mechanical, and electroacoustic methods
- Configuration Management
- Data Acquisition
- Data fusion
- Data reduction and analysis
- Deep Submergence Computer Aided Engineering Support
- Development and maintenance planning for mine sweeping equipment
- Development of combat system and tactics training
- Development of underwater (small) object identification systems
- Direction and Positioning Systems
- Diver and Life Support Systems
- Enhanced image data software development
- Environmental Studies
- Environmental Testing
- Experimental Acoustics
- Fleet Support and in-service engineering
- Fluxgate sensors
- Gas Analysis on air and mixed gas
- Linearized and frequency-domain analysis
- Littoral Warfare Modeling and Simulation
- Lossless and lossy data compression
- Magnetic resonance sensors
- Magnetic Sensors
- Magnetoresistive sensors
- Manufacturing Support
- Maritime Mine Countermeasures
- MCM tactics development
- Mechanical Engineering and Prototype Fabrication
- Metal Analysis using atomic absorption
- Mine hunting sonar development
- Mine neutralization system development
- MIW C4I architecture development
- Modeling
- Multidiscipline Design of diver equipment and breathing systems. (CAD-FEA)
- Multi-sensor analysis
- Nonlinear hydrodynamic coefficient prediction
- Nonlinear time-domain simulation
- Offgassing analysis
- Optical fiber sensors
- Planning and Provisioning
- Precise navigation systems
- Precision Gas Mixing
- Program Management
- Sensor Design and Development
- Sensor Modeling & Simulation
- Signal and Image Processing
- Signal Processing and Signal Design
- Simulated Manned Testing, including breathing gas simulations and thermal analysis
- Software Support Activity
- Specialty Engineering Office
- Stability analysis
- Statistical analysis of images
- Superconducting magnetic gradiometers and sensors
- System acquisition
- System engineering
- System Modernization
- Systems Research, Design, Integration, and Support
- Tactical software management, development and installation
- Technology Research
- Test & Evaluation and Modeling & Simulation
- Test Engineering
- Texture analysis using fractals
- Thermal Analysis and Characterization of Materials
- Total-field sensors
- Understanding the impact of the environment on MIW
- Water Analysis
- Weight and buoyancy calculations
