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Navy Progressing On DDG-1000 Hardware And Software Development

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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The Navy and its industry partners are into production on most of the computing hardware and nearing the final software release for the components that will operate the Zumwalt-class combat ship, according to a service official. "We are mostly through the hardware development, in fact we have gone to production on most of the hardware elements not only of the TSCE infrastructure--the blade severs, network switches and so forth--but all the associated weapon system elements, for example…

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