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USCG Looks To Bring Commonality, Affordability With OA Effort

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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

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By Geoff Fein The Coast Guard is in the midst of incorporating open architecture to bring commonality and affordability into its fleet of ships and aircraft. Increment One was a realignment of all software development processes to line up with open architecture, Cmdr. Mike Johnston, deputy project manager, command, control, computers, communication, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) project, told Defense Daily recently. "Increment One is on the NSC [National Security Cutter] it is a common core design hardware and software…

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