MOORESTOWN, N.J., Aug. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy
selected Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) COMBATSS-21 as the combat
management system for the Navy's frigate ship program. COMBATSS-21
is the combat management system in operation on the Freedom variant
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The five-year contract, which is worth
up to $79.5 million, covers fiscal
years 2016-2021.
COMBATSS-21 (COMponent-BAsed Total-Ship System—21st
Century) is built from the Aegis Common Source Library (CSL), and
shares a pedigree with the Aegis Baseline 9 software developed for
the Aegis cruiser and destroyer fleet, as well as international
ships, the Aegis Ashore system, LCS and the Coast Guard National
Security Cutters.
"We look forward to providing this combat management system to
the frigates and potentially other platforms across the U.S. Navy,
as it will bring commonality across the fleet of surface combatants
and is a step toward realizing the vision of distributed
lethality," said Rich Calabrese,
director of Mission Systems at Lockheed Martin. "Using the CSL
enhances life-cycle affordability by reducing costs for
integration, test and certification—and delivers an open combat
system architecture in line with the Navy's objective architecture,
driving affordability and increasing interoperability across the
entire fleet."
The CSL allows surface combatants to rapidly and affordably
integrate new capabilities across the fleet. This means that ships
using a CSL-derived combat system can incorporate new sensors,
weapons and capability upgrades to keep pace with evolving threats.
The benefit of the surface combatant CSL is that these updates
become available for rollout across other ship classes.
"We can build capability, get it into the CSL and then deploy it
in a ship class when the Navy determines the need," Calabrese said.
In this way, capability developed on a forward fit program may be
applied to ships already in service.
As the Aegis Combat System Engineering Agent, Lockheed Martin
provides modern combat management systems and conducts the entire
combat system integration life-cycle that enables navies around the
world to achieve their most critical mission objectives. Lockheed
Martin has successfully delivered and integrated Aegis and
Aegis-based products on 126 platforms in eight nations, with an
additional 23 under construction or planned. Aegis and
Aegis-derived systems are in service in U.S. Navy cruisers,
destroyers, Littoral Combat Ships, Coast Guard National Security
Cutters and Aegis Ashore sites. The navies of Japan, Spain,
Norway, the Republic of Korea, and
Australia have also chosen Aegis
to protect their nations.
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www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/aegis.html
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a
global security and aerospace company that employs approximately
98,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research,
design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of
advanced technology systems, products and services.
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