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Upgrades To Raytheon’s SSDS Brings Improved Capabilities To Carriers, Amphibs

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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By Geoff Fein At the same time that the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) was undergoing her Aegis combat system modernization, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) was receiving an open architecture tech refresh that included an upgrade to Raytheon's [RTN] Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS), according to a company official. "[The OA tech refresh] essentially included an upgrade to the combat system, the SSDS Mk 2 combat system, to adhere to the standard that PEO IWS had published called the Open Architecture Computing…

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