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CANES is a programmatic and technical consolidation
of five legacy shipboard network programs. CANES provides a modern,
common computing environment across the fleet to upgrade cybersecurity,
command and control, communications and intelligence (C4I) and streamline
logistics.
"We are honored and proud to contribute significantly to this critical
component of the Navy's modernization plan," said Sam Abbate, vice
president and general manager, command and control division, Northrop
Grumman Information Systems. "By maximizing commonality, Northrop
Grumman has delivered dozens of affordable, highly capable shipsets
to enable warfighter information dominance."
Since winning the contract for the design and limited-production run
for CANES in early 2012, Northrop Grumman has delivered 37 shipsets
for various ship classes. The company leveraged its cyber expertise
to ensure cyber-robust CANES systems. The company also applied its Modular
Open Systems Approach-Competitive TM process to encourage continuous
competition and achieve the lifecycle benefits of open systems architecture
and commercial off-the-shelf components and software.
"The Navy used one of our CANES configurations and applied it to
a destroyer and a cruiser, demonstrating the flexibility of our design
to reduce network variants by ship class," Abbate said.
CANES will be installed on all platforms in the Navy's inventory objective,
which includes ships, submarines and land sites. CANES installations
have been successfully completed on several aircraft carriers and cruisers
and on multiple destroyers. Installations continue on carriers, an amphibious
assault ship, landing dock ships, cruisers and destroyers.
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