Lockheed Martin to upgrade communications software on Navy missile and attack submarines
SAN DIEGO, 3 Oct. 2013. U.S. Navy submarine communications experts needed a contractor to develop and maintain a common integrated communications architecture for voice and data communications systems aboard U.S. Navy fast-attack and ballistic-missile submarines. They found their solution from the Lockheed Martin Corp. Mission Systems & Training segment in San Diego.
Officials of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego awarded a $12.7 million contract to Lockheed Martin this week for the Design And Maintenance Of Common Submarine Radio Room (CSRR) Control And Management (C&M) Software program, which asks for continued development, maintenance, and sustainment of the Common Submarine Radio Room (CSRR) Control and Management (C&M) software for submarines.
The Navy developed the CSRR as a replacement for the existing Ohio Class submarine Integrated Radio Room (IRR), and has installed CSRR equipment aboard Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines, as well as on Virginia-, Seawolf-, and Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines.
The CSRR integrates components of the Navy's Automated Digital Network System (ADNS), Digital Modular Radio (DMR), Extremely High Frequency/Follow-On Terminal (EHF/FOT), Global Broadcast Service (GBS), Super High Frequency (SHF), Submarine Single Messaging System (SubSMS), and ancillary equipment into a common architecture.
The system's control and management software manages these components to control, process, and disseminate command, control communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) information to provide the submarine fleet with secure and covert communications.
The technical approach to this effort is based on a common open-systems architecture, common software, common technical documentation, and one software support activity (SSA).
The common software configuration will include the structure of the code; the databases that track requirements, software source files, baseline documentation, host equipment and processors, and verification and validation.
Navy experts are asking Lockheed Martin to maintain and upgrade the existing CSRR control and management software. Lockheed Martin is the original contractor for the CSRR program.
For more information contact Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Training online at www.lockheedmartin.com/us/mst, or SPAWAR at www.spawar.navy.mil.
John Keller | Editor
John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.
