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RTI Product Transition: Forward Deployment Transition
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The Scaled Improved Performance Sonar System (SIPS) brings to the U.S. Navy surface fleet a vastly improved capability to find and prosecute hostile subsurface combatants. The “certified for fleet release” software runs the Navy’s newest anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combat system upgrade for surface ships
A scaled version of the Improved Performance Sonar (IPS) system, SIPS is designed on the same common supportability, training and hardware infrastructure and is extended to incorporate reliability upgrades including redundancy in system interfaces, network
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backbone, computing assets, system wide data storage and retrieval, and a high availability clustered system server. SIPS, by providing a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) adjunct upgrade to the legacy AN/SQQ-89(V) sonar combat system, increases processing power by over 600% and because of the redundancy provided in its design, is able to defer maintenance for months.
In addition to improving the Navy’s ability to find and track enemy submarines, the SIPS system brings to the fleet a commercial, open system architecture that can be scaled for many different applications and which is readily upgradeable as new sub hunting technologies become available.
The commercial technology-based SIPS system upgrades are currently installed on eighteen U.S. Navy surface ships, with four more systems awaiting installation and six more systems in production. A total of thirty-six SIPS system installations are planned by the end of Fiscal Year 2009, significantly enhancing the Navy’s ability to find and prosecute enemy submarines across the world’s open oceans and in the littorals.
Product Certification & Qualification: The ultimate objective of each developmental spiral is a set of software functional segments that has been thoroughly tested and evaluated. Once tested in the lab, that set (or subset) of functional segments which meet a production platform, like SIPS’, requirements will undergo certification and qualification to ensure that the new hardware and software configuration function together, as designed, prior to actual shipboard installation. Much like the demonstration spiral, the certification spiral comprises requirements, design and readiness reviews with the customer to ensure their full concurrence that the new configuration meets performance and suitability requirements.
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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, Vice President of Program Management -
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