By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment in its surface combatants if it wants to avoid retiring ships too early and to keep pace with the burgeoning ballistic missile threat, a top Navy official said. "When you build a ship, you have to be able to evolve it over the course of its life to meet changing threats. You wouldn't want to build a ship that was tapped out from a stability standpoint, cooling…
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