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Situational Awareness Enhanced on Flattops

Content Editor posted on December 31, 2009 06:48
[Aviation Today] Continual modernization of the aircraft carrier fleet helps the U.S. Navy maintain its edge. One important element of this methodology is the enhancement of existing technology. The Situational Awareness Bridge Display System (SABDS) is a sophisticated video system that consolidates critical data to a centralized display.

Utilizing RGB Spectrum's QuadView XLRT multi-viewer, SABDS assimilates electronic information from a range of systems, including: Command and Control, Threat Detection, Navigation, Surveillance, and Air Control. Incorporating this data into an exclusive display console eliminates redundancy, displacing an excess of single-purpose displays. Designed and implemented by DOD contractors, with specific experience to the needs of today's carrier mission, SABDS significantly improves situational awareness, and enhances decision-making resources for the commanding officer and the navigation team.
 
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New carrier berth part of Guam expansion

Content Editor posted on December 16, 2009 04:17
[Navy Times]  Navy officials want to build a deep-draft wharf in Guam’s main harbor that would better accommodate nuclear-powered aircraft carriers when they visit.

The new berth at Polaris Point, on the eastern side of Apra Harbor, is part of the military’s plan to expand naval waterfront facilities, build expeditionary training ranges on the nearby island of Tinian and house a large military force, including 8,600 Marines who will shift to Guam from Okinawa.

Navy officials outlined the plans in a draft environmental impact statement that analyzes the environmental effects of the planned military buildup in the island archipelago. Officials studied 16 sites around Apra, Guam’s seaport along the central-western coast.  Read more...

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Free to a Good Home: USS John F. Kennedy

Content Editor posted on December 03, 2009 06:10
Anyone want a free aircraft carrier?
 
The John F. Kennedy, currently docked in Philadelphia with other retired warships, is now available as a donation from the Navy. Known as "Big John," the ship was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the Navy, and once carried a crew of about 4,600 and 70 combat aircraft. It entered Navy service in September 1968 and was decommissioned in 2007.
 
By law, it can go only to a state or local governmental entity, or a nonprofit. It must be turned into a memorial or museum. And whoever gets it must pay for towing.

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