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Navy/USMC

Navy Establishing Baseline Hardware, Software Architectures For Rapid Ship Modernization

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

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Navy Establishing Baseline Hardware, Software Architectures For Rapid Ship Modernization

The USS Fort Worth (LCS-3). Photo: Defense Daily.

Establishing common baseline hardware and software architectures across the Navy’s surface fleet will be key in maintaining dominance of the world’s oceans over the next 30 years, said Rear Adm. Jon Hill, program executive officer for integrated warfare systems.Ship and weapon modernization is not a static, one-time process, Hill said Jan. 12 at the Surface Navy Association annual symposium outside Washington, D.C. Maintaining an edge over adversaries and dominance of the sea will require nearly constant software upgrade between periodic…

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