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U.S. Navy Selects Lockheed Martin's COMBATSS-21 Open Architecture CMS for LCS Frigates.
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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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