CANES passes first deployment
Northrop Grumman has completed the design, development and limited deployment phase of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) programme for the US Navy, it announced on 1 June.
CANES is a next-generation maritime C4I network for the US Navy. Northrop Grumman has delivered 37 ship-sets for various classes of ships since winning the design and limited-production contract in 2012.
The CANES ship-sets were developing using Northrop Grumman's Modular Open Systems Approach-Competitive process, which uses commercial off-the-shelf components and software, and open-system architecture.
Sam Abbate, vice president and general manager, command and control division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, said: 'We are honoured and proud to contribute significantly to this critical component of the navy's modernisation plan. By maximising commonality, Northrop Grumman has delivered dozens of affordable, highly capable shipsets to enable warfighter information dominance.
'The navy used one of our CANES configurations and applied it to a destroyer and a cruiser, demonstrating the flexibility of our design to reduce network variants by ship class.'
CANES will be installed on all platforms in the inventory objective of the navy, including land sites, submarines and ships. It has already been installed successfully on several destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers. Installations are currently underway on more destroyers, cruisers and carriers, as well as landing dock ships and an amphibious assault ship.
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