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Integrated Combat System Hardware Evaluation Underway on DDG-81

Integrated Combat System Hardware Evaluation Underway on DDG-81
Pictured are Navy, Cmdr. Brian Anthony, the commanding officer, of USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) and the Hon. Rupert Soames, the famed British prime minister's grandson, reviewing plans for the ship's Combat Information Center at BAE Systems' shipyard in Jacksonville, Fla. in November, 2021 (U.S. Navy Photo)

Since last summer, the U.S. Navy has been evaluating hardware for Lockheed Martin's [LMT] Integrated Combat System (ICS) aboard an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81). "We're seeing results, and we're seeing how it [ICS] operates, and it's operating well," Capt. Brian Phillips, the service's major program manager for ICS, told reporters at a joint Lockheed Martin-Navy briefing on ICS at the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium on Jan. 9. "We've taken it to sea, and they've…

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