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Cutting The Cost Of Nuclear Submarine Combat
Arlington VA (SPX) Jul 07, 2004 The U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $21.5 million contract modification to continue system integration and development of enhanced capabilities for the Acoustic Rapid Commercial-off-the-shelf Insertion (A-RCI) program. The A-RCI program enables the Navy to significantly upgrade legacy submarine combat capability through annual software enhancements and periodic hardware upgrades at significant cost savings. This program has been a major factor in establishing open architecture requirements for the Navy and these capabilities and systems are now on nearly all Navy submarines and many surface ships. The initial system developed under the A-RCI program was the Multi-Purpose Processor (MPP), which replaced the signal processing and displays of the AN/BQQ-5 Sonar system on SSN 688 and 688I nuclear attack submarines. The greatly increased performance, significantly lower cost, and open architecture features of the MPP-based systems led the Navy to extend the replacements to the sonar processing and display systems being developed for Virginia Class and Trident submarines with MPP systems. Subsequent deliveries have continued to upgrade and greatly improve sonar capabilities and add advanced tactical decision aids and stealth monitoring capabilities. Work under this contract will be performed in Fairfax, Va., and Anaheim Calif., and includes systems engineering, architecture design, software engineering, development, integration, and testing. The overall contract runs through Dec. 2008 and has a total potential value of $250 million, including the modification announced today. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links General Dynamics SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Military Space News at SpaceWar.com
Space Group To Activate New Unit
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jan 6, 2006Air Force Reserve Command's 310th Space Group will travel deeper into the space program when it activates a new unit Jan. 7. Headquarters Reserve National Security Space Institute will be a Reserve associate unit to the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo. The institute is the Department of Defense's focal point for providing education about space power in joint warfighting. |
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