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Navy/USMC

U.S. Navy Looks to Neck Down 18 Configurations of Ship Control Systems on Surface Vessels

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

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U.S. Navy Looks to Neck Down 18 Configurations of Ship Control Systems on Surface Vessels

On Oct. 16 last year, the USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) arrived at Naval Station Everett, Washington, its new homeport after 24 years of forward deployment with the U.S. 7th Fleet (U.S. Navy Photo)

The U.S. Navy wants to neck down the 18 configurations of ship control systems on surface vessels to help avoid collisions at sea, such as two separate incidents in 2017 involving the USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) and the USS Fitgerald (DDG-62). The collisions killed 17 sailors. "On the DDG-51 class alone, when we started diving a little bit more deeply, we found nine different variants of ship control," Capt. Scott Larson, the program manager for Surface Ship Readiness and…

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