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Navy’s CANES Enters Full Deployment Phase

Monday, June 1st, 2015

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Navy’s CANES Enters Full Deployment Phase

The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on June 1 delivered the last of 37 ships sets of the Navy’s newest shipboard computing system, closing the low-rate initial production (LRIP) phase of the program.Northrop Grumman was the prime contractor during the design, development and limited deployment phase of the consolidated afloat networks and enterprise system (CANES), which eventually will simplify five of the Navy’s shipboard information technology systems to one.The first lot of 37 systems in the design phase have been delivered to the…

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