27-03-2025
NIWC Atlantic tests cutting-edge military tech in four-day experiment
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A naval experiment conducted in Charleston this month tested state-of-the-art technologies on land, by sea, and in the air.
The Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic's four-day experiment, which ran March 17-20, stress-tested technology used for myriad essential command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, including those connected to autonomous aircraft and unmanned maritime vessels.
The experiment utilized roughly 45 systems using four unmanned surface vessels, five unmanned aerial systems, and manned aircraft, including a U.S. Army AH-64E Apache v6 attack helicopter and C-17A Globemaster.
'SoSNIE gives us an opportunity to come out here and prove our technology out and make sure that we're adding value both to our project and to the warfighter,' said NIWC Atlantic engineer Valerie Plucinski.
'We get to see a lot of how the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, how all those systems kind of integrate with each other … when our systems get to be integrated together, at the end of the day, it's more like command control. We to get like all the information down to the warfighters so they can fight and win the war,' said Sgt. Evan Pelobello, US Marine Corps Data Systems Administrator.
Officials said this was the seventh year the command has hosted an event aimed at growing its presence within the military technology community.
You can read more about the experiment by clicking here.
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