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CANES Program Successful In Critical Design Review

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

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The Navy yesterday said the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program recently achieved a significant engineering milestone with the completion of Critical Design Reviews (CDR) for the two competing CANES systems being developed by Lockheed Martin [LMT] Mission Systems and Sensors and Northrop Grumman [NOC]. "CDR is a key point in the CANES program as it establishes the design baseline and provides assurances that CANES will meet stated performance requirements within cost and schedule parameters," said Capt.…

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