The Fort Lauderdale Branch of the Naval Surface Warfare Center operates the only land-based, deep-water test and evaluation (T&E) facility located on the Eastern Seaboard. Here, NSWC and other research and development activities conduct full-scale trials of air, surface, and underwater weapon systems under a variety of oceanographic conditions. The Fort Lauderdale Branch conducts field trials of air, surface, and underwater ordnance systems in the Atlantic Ocean; recovers test hardware to depths of 200 feet; develops, installs, maintains and operates ship tracking and offshore positioning equipment; installs and maintains a deep-water cable monitoring system; provides weapon assembly and storage areas, technical and support personnel, security, shore tracking and monitoring stations, boats and utility craft to support field trials and provides liaison and coordinates for test-related aircraft and Navy ships visiting Port Everglades.
Fort Laurdale Branch, Naval Surface Warfare Center
1998
31 pages
Report
No indication
English
Laboratory & Test Facility Design & Operation , Military Sciences , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Weapon systems , Naval research , Naval shore facilities , Underwater ordnance , Test and evaluation , Weapons , Stations , Field tests , Tracking , Storage , Boats , Positioning devices(Machinery) , Oceanography , Offshore , Shores , Land areas , Deep water , Atlantic ocean , Technicians , Test equipment , Cables , Ships , Naval vessels , Monitoring , Deep water testing , Naval Surface Warfare Center(Fort Lauderdale Florida)
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