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The Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier — the symbol of American military might around the world — will rely on a futuristic version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and other commercial technologies for command and control.
Officials from Microsoft Federal Systems last week attended an initial design review of the Navy's future CVN-77 aircraft carrier. The company has been selected to lead information infrastructure development for the ship and to define the overall systems architecture for high- performance information exchange. Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems (NESS) is the lead company, along with Newport News Shipbuilding.
The carrier will act as a steppingstone to what Rear Adm. Jack Chenevy, program executive officer for strike weapons at the Naval Air Systems Command, called "a revolution in carrier aviation." Although the CVN-77 will represent a significant technological advance when it is fielded in 2008, it actually is a transition platform for the futuristic CVX-1 carrier, which is scheduled for construction in 2006.
"The CVN-77 is the next advance in carrier aviation," Chenevy said, adding that it will use many of the same technologies that are being developed for the DD-21 "smart ship" destroyer. As on the DD-21, new technologies will reduce the number of crew members needed and will also cut down on maintenance costs for the CVN-77, according to Chenevy, who made his remarks during the International Naval Review 2000 in New York City.
"We were given targets of taking man-hours and training hours off the ship," said Rich Lockwood, director of the Advanced Naval and C4I Program for Lockheed Martin NESS Surface Systems. "This is a fairly radical change. Today, a lot of information exists on a carrier, but it can't get to where it needs to be easily."
Microsoft Federal Systems will help design the ship's IT architecture based on the company's Windows 2000 platform. The commercial off-the-shelf software solution includes a three-year commitment by Microsoft Consulting Services for technical support during the ship's software design, development and deployment. Actual construction of the CVN-77 will begin in 2001.
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