The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, Rhode Island and the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Panama City Division in Panama City, Florida hosted the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment (BPCE) Aug. 15-16.
NUWC Newport hosted its portion of the exercise at its Narragansett Bay Test Facility (NBTF) in Newport, Rhode Island. Approximately 700 visitors from the Department of Defense, industry and academia attended the two-day event including U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, and R.I. Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor.
ANTX is an annual multi-day event originally created by NUWC Newport to demonstrate future Navy technologies in action today. During this year’s event, Naval warfare centers, universities, and industry partners showcased their latest unmanned systems and related technologies. Among the diverse list of companies that participated were Boeing, Aviation System Engineering Company (ASEC), Domo Tactical Communications (DTC), General Dynamics Mission Systems, Autonomous Surface Vessels, Hydroid, L3 Technologies, iXblue, Power Docks, Adaptive Methods, DeTect Intelligent Sensors, Engineering Professional Services, Leidos, Northrup Grumman, QinetiQ North America, and SRI International.
Don McCormack, Senior Executive Service, Executive Director for Naval Surface and Undersea Warfare Centers, said: “Events such as ANTX, with its focus on demonstrations of specific operational-based themes, underscore the value of rapid prototyping efforts. By incorporating warfighters’ needs and focusing on the outcomes, we can make improvements that build on lessons learned and transition these new technologies more quickly than ever before.”
ANTX provides a low risk environment in which scientists and engineers may evaluate their technological innovations at the research and development level before their technologies become militarized and integrated at the operational level.
ANTX17 BPCE was a multi-site exercise, involving more than 20 lead participants, with many more collaborating. Technologies were exercised at both the NBTF in Newport and NSWC Panama City Division operational areas, and included fleet operators from Submarine Development Squadron 5 participating at both sites and virtually from Keyport, Wash.
ANTX featured live demonstrations of tasks above and below the water including bordering shorelines. Critical to this year’s operation were the collection, fusion, and transmission of data without being detected and rapid improvements of coordination among autonomous platforms, technology enablers that facilitate autonomous operations, and their operators. NUWC Newport focused on prototypes providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and NSWC Panama City focused on the mine warfare mission (MIW); both sites also exercised payload delivery and cross-domain unmanned air, surface and underwater vehicle operations.
The mission for this year’s ANTX was to enhance the systems that provide situational awareness and to provide warfighters with a complete operational picture of vehicles underwater, on the surface, in the air, and on the ground. This expanded operational overview is continuously populated with real-time data to properly inform essential decision making.
NUWC Newport’s ANTX successes included the demonstration of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell powered micro UUV, operating at 100 percent power.
The U.S. has national interests in all sea domains, from the sea floor to space. Each domain offers its own unique challenges and opportunities. Participants at ANTX17 BCPE demonstrated the benefit of combining operations across these domains to optimize the Navy’s collective effectiveness throughout the maritime environment. These connecting links allowed the disparate parts to operate collectively, such that the contributions of each enhanced the warfighting effectiveness of the greater whole.
NUWC Division Newport, part of the Naval Sea System Command, is one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. NUWC Division Newport’s mission is to provide research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, undersea offensive and defensive weapons systems, and countermeasures. NUWC’s other division is located in Keyport, Wash.
| Date Taken: | 08.22.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 10.04.2017 13:27 |
| Story ID: | 250582 |
| Location: | NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, US |
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