Mission:

It is the mission of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City (NSWC-PC) to provide research, development, test and evaluation and in-service support for amphibious warfare, diving, maritime special operations, mine warfare (mines and mine countermeasures), and other Naval missions that take place in the coastal region.

Roles:

• Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare - Improve the Navy's and Marine Corps' ability to project power ashore by means of amphibious operations. The NSWC-PC is the national authority on air-cushion vehicle technology and application, and the interface of these vehicles with the Navy’s amphibious ships. It maintains strong capabilities in research, engineering, technical direction, management and life support for the amphibious warfare, U.S. Marine Corps, and Strategic Sealift systems.
  
  

• Coastal Operations - The NSWC-PC is the national center of expertise for coastal operations. The technologies, systems and equipment developed in support of the Navy needs are applicable in many cases to the solution of non-DOD type problems. The Coastal Operations mission focuses on the transfer of this knowledge and technology base to the solution of problems encountered by local, state, industrial and non-DOD organizations.
  
  

• Diving, Life Support and Damage Control Systems - Coupled with the tenant commands of the Experimental Diving Unit and the Diving and Salvage Training Center,  NSWC-PC represents the national center of expertise for military diving. This team addresses all aspects of dive-system development, test and evaluation, and training. The technologies and techniques associated with diving systems have been successfully applied to a variety of non-diving life support systems such as fire-fighting breathing apparatus.
  
  

• Mine Warfare - The NSWC-PC is the recognized world leader in mine countermeasure and mine systems. It is the repository of the Nation’s mine warfare expertise. As such, the NSWC-PC maintains a robust spectrum of efforts in research & development, test & evaluation, and in-fleet support of naval airborne, surface, and shallow-water mine countermeasures systems and naval sea mine systems. It is the champion for the transition to organic mine countermeasures. The expertise of the NSWC-PC in this critical warfare area is unequalled.
  
  

• Naval Special Warfare - The NSWC-PC is the Navy’s lead laboratory for the research and development of special operations systems with an emphasis on mobility platforms that support the Fleet operator.
  
  

• Littoral Science and Technology - Under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research, NSWC-PC maintains a robust science and technology program relative to the littoral environment. Technology developments focus in the areas of autonomous systems, advanced acoustic, magnetic and electro-optic sensors, modeling and simulation, digital visualizations, signal processing, life support and manned diving, air cushion vehicle design, and ancillary equipment for support of military sealift operations.

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