US Navy CANES programme vendors selected
Five companies have been selected to compete for delivery orders under the US Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) programme to upgrade cybersecurity, command and control, communications and intelligence (C4I) systems across the fleet.
BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Global Technical Systems, Northrop Grumman Systems, and Serco, have been awarded IDIQ contracts under programme, which has a potential value of $2.5 billion over eight years.
CANES will ultimately upgrade C4I systems on 180 US Navy ships, submarines and Maritime Operations Centres by 2022. The increased standardisation will reduce the number of network variants by ship class across the fleet, consolidating five legacy networks into one open, modular, and scalable Local Area Network (LAN) system.
The CANES system reduces the infrastructure footprint and its associated costs while increasing reliability, security, interoperability and application hosting to meet current and projected requirements.
Each delivery order placed under the contract will be issued and funded individually. The ‘build-to-print’ delivery approach will leverage CANES design and integrated product baselines established during the programme’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase.
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation began earlier in August on USS Higgins, which will support a Full Deployment Decision by Q3 FY 2015. If cleared, the programme will then continue to Full Operational Capability.
CANES installations have already been completed on nine destroyers in the US Navy’s fleet under the initial stages of the Limited Deployment phase. Installations are currently underway on three carriers, one amphibious assault ship, eight destroyers, one landing dock ship, and one cruiser. Twenty-eight additional installations are planned for FY 2015 and FY 2016.
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