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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Marks Progress in Advanced Aegis Capability

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS080425-12
Release Date: 4/25/2008 11:06:00 AM

From Surface Combat Systems Center Public Affairs

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (NNS) -- The Navy continues to demonstrate its progress towards a successful implementation of its Guided Missile Cruiser Modernization (CGM) program with an Aegis Advanced Capability Build (ACB) 08' ribbon cutting ceremony held at the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC), April 4.

The ribbon cutting/light-off of equipment at SCSC is a major milestone in development efforts for the Cruiser Modernization Program. The availability of the system allows for testing and certification of the ACB-08 computer program.

SCSC will continue to support the development of this key Navy program as it migrates to Aegis Light Off (ALO) on the first cruiser modernization hull, USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) in Aug. 2008.

The first combat systems upgrade of the program is underway aboard Bunker Hill. The equipment suite recently brought on-line at Wallops Island will be utilized to verify that the functionality and stability required for shipboard operation has been developed and to support final certification testing that will allow an upgraded Bunker Hill to return to sea as a combat ready asset for the fleet.

This event also marked the Required Operating Date (ROD) or opening of the suite for customer use. Capt. Robin Russell and Evan Littig from the Aegis Combat Systems Program Office, and Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems representatives were in attendance, as well as representatives from the Sites Planning Agent (SPA), SCSC customer representatives, and SCSC Senior Leadership Team.

The ribbon cutting represented a significant milestone for the Navy. The effort to achieve 100 percent combat system functionality is still underway. SCSC will continue to support the fleet and ACB 08' development challenges by leveraging the resources of SCSC, Aegis Technical Representative and Lockheed Martin in a collaborative effort to activate the site and support early developmental testing.

One of the primary objectives of the Control Test Load 2 development effort was to introduce markedly improved system stability. A comparative analysis between the new computer program and its predecessor indicates that this goal was achieved. Stability of the program is much improved and several significant improvements were realized with this new computer program.

The SCSC, located in Wallops Island, Va., is a high-fidelity Aegis engineering test center that has supported the development, and fielding of every Aegis baseline configuration since the commissioning of the first Aegis ship, USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) in 1983.

For more news from Center for Surface Combat Systems, visit www.navy.mil/local/cscs/.