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RTI Product Transition
AAC, as prime integrator in a team that includes partners from Navy labs, industry, and academia, has established a series of low-cost, Rapid Technology Insertion (RTI) upgrades to the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combat systems installed on U.S. Navy surface combatants. These upgrades are designed to take advantage of the latest commercial technologies using an open architecture enterprise transition spiral management model. This agile spiral development model, based on ISO/IEEE 12207 software development principles, ensures customer and user involvement and concurrence throughout the process.
- Integration and Assessment:
Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC) is the prime integrator and technology lead for the Improved Performance Sonar (IPS) demonstration and evaluation system. IPS provides the Navy a structured and repeatable process for development, integration, and fielding of technological improvements on fleet operational units. This process follows a proven path for evaluating warfighting and supportability improvements using dedicated platforms and regularly scheduled events. At-sea testing of Mission Module and Mission Package improvements in advance of formal Navy acquisition programs reduces risk and cost. It also facilitates fleet evaluation while supporting an accelerated development cycle or spiral.
- Forward Deployment Transition:
When the U.S. Navy wanted to quickly deliver IPS-like capability to its forward deploying ASW ships, it called on AAC to develop and integrate a Scaled IPS system (SIPS) and certify it for production. Designed on the same supportability training and hardware infrastructure as IPS, SIPS incorporates reliability upgrades, including redundancy in system interfaces, network backbone, computing assets, system-wide data storage and retrieval, and a high availability clustered system server. This commonality facilitates expansion and leveraging of other IPS functional capabilities in the future. The Scaled IPS (SIPS) systems complete the RTI technology path that begins with IPS, enabling the Navy to speed new technologies to the fleet while reducing the costs and risks associated with the traditional “all or nothing” approach to combat system upgrades.
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The six step Open Architecture
Enterprise Transition Process that AAC utilizes
for development, demonstration, integration and
rapid fielding of new technologies is focused
on customer satisfaction. AAC aligns the stakeholders
and engages the customer in every step of the
spiral development process - from initial modeling
and requirements through PRP/APB development,
mission package integration, demonstration and
evaluation, qualification, platform integration,
fielding and in-service support. ~ Bob Olsen, VP Production Systems & Support - AAC |
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