The Navy has begun a Systems Design and Development (SDD) effort to incorporate a data link into Boeing's [BA] Harpoon missile and Raytheon's [RTN] Joint Stand-Off Weapon making the two systems the first true network enabled development efforts, a Navy official said. The goal is to develop a better target selectivity capability without having to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a development effort, Capt. Mat Winter, the Navy's program manager for Precision Strike Weapons, told sister publication Defense…
Navy SDD Effort Putting Data Links On Harpoon, JSOW
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