U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Centers - Maritime Technology, Fleet Support, Operations of Surface Combat and Weapons Systems, Assessment - Crane, Indian Head, Corona, Port Hueneme, Carderock (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Navy's Surface Warfare Centers. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection contains more than 22,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. SURFACE WARFARE CENTERS - The Surface Force is composed of the following capabilities: Aegis Combat System; Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC); Harpoon; MK 45 5 inch/54 caliber lightweight guns; MK 46 Torpedoes; MK 75 Gun; Phalanx Close-in Weapons Systems; Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM); Sea Sparrow; SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS MK III; Standard Missile; Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) Missile, and the following types of surface combatants: Guided Missile Cruisers (CG); Destroyers (DD) and Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG); Guided Missile Frigates (FFG). The Surface Warfare Centers provide maritime technology, fleet support, operations of surface combat and weapons systems, assessment, and more. Locations are Crane, Indian Head, Corona, Port Hueneme, and Carderock. Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) enables battle group ships and aircraft to share sensor data at speeds never seen before providing the entire battle group with a single integrated air picture. This revolutionary capability doesn't require additional radars or weapons but instead shares information with existing systems. CEC brings significant improvements in several areas: Air contact tracking accuracy; Continuity of Track; Air contact identification consistency. These pieces of information, collected and shared by assets throughout the battle group, increase the size of battle space protection. They enable the battle group to more accurately identify air contacts before they can threaten the battle group. Once CEC is installed on all the battle groups, every ship and Hawkeye 2000 in the battle group will be capable of seeing the same target many miles away. This could not happen using only the ship's own organic sensors. CEC extracts data from sensors aboard surface ships and ai