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Navy Examining Ramping Up Solid State Lighting Program

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Thursday, July 31st, 2014

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Navy Examining Ramping Up Solid State Lighting Program

U.S. Navy photo of the USS McCampbell (DDG-85)

The Navy is looking at aggressively implementing a solid state lighting program across the fleet, replacing its legacy fluorescent lighting in an effort to bring manpower and maintenance benefits as well as energy savings.Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy Capt. James Goudreau told Defense Daily Thursday the service has been happy with a number of different fixtures that have been out in the fleet for testing and validation. Though the financial savings produced from more advanced lighting…

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