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GD Aims To Expand OA System For LCS To Other Platforms

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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

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By Carlo Munoz Program officials developing the new open architecture system for the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship are looking to market that same operating system to other service vessels and international navies. General Dynamics [GD] has stood up a new open architecture-based computer infrastructure system, known as Open CI, for the Austal USA-built variant of the LCS, Chris Montferret, director of surface navy programs for General Dynamics, said during an April 9 interview. The Open CI system seamless integrates and…

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