It also means that new systems are quickly integrated, skipping the expensive process of ripping out old servers and consoles.Īnd it means the companies that develop the myriad combat systems in service today - say, Raytheon or Lockheed Martin - won’t have a lock on developing software for Navy ships because the Navy wants the combat system to be developed with interfaces that are accessible by outside application developers. This has the benefit of having everything linked into the central nervous system for operators in the combat information center, sonar control, on the bridge or in the ship’s intelligence-gathering center.

On a ship, that means that if the Navy adds a new radar, missile or laser, the software that runs the new equipment is developed as an application that interfaces with the single integrated combat system, the way Waze integrates with the iPhone or Android software. Over the course of three days, the crew of John Paul Jones successfully engaged six targets, firing a total of five missiles that included four SM-6 models and one Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) model. The Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) launches a Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) during a live-fire test of the ship's aegis weapons system. “For us to get faster, we either have to keep going with the model we had where we upgrade our flip phones, or we cross over the mentality to where it says: 'I don’t care what model of iPhone you have - 7 or X or whatever you have - it will still run Waze or whatever you are trying to run,” he said. Instead, Boxall wants the combat systems to run like the iPhone. And if you want to run more advanced applications, you need a new phone. When buying a flip phone, most of the hardware and software are already included, leaving you with a limited ability to upgrade the phone. Ron Boxall, the chief of naval operations’ director of surface warfare, said in a December interview at the Pentagon with Defense News.īoxall describes the current situation to an integrated combat system as the difference between a flip phone and an iPhone. “That’s an imperative going forward - we have to get to one, integrated combat system,” Rear Adm. The goal here is that if a sailor who is trained on a big-deck amphibious ship transfers to a destroyer, no extra training will be necessary to run the equipment on the destroyer.

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