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National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean	Trident Program Intent On Avoiding Past Shipbuilding Pitfalls As the Navy begins to design its next ballistic-missile submarine, officials caution that the service must avoid shipbuilding practices of the past that have led to cost overruns and delays.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ed Walsh	The Next Step for Shipboard Electronics Growth of the U.S. Navy's fleet of surface warships and submarines is riding on systems innovation and new technologies to introduce open-systems solutions for network-centric warfare, ballistic-missile defense, and other capabilities for the 21st century maritime warfare.
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National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean	Shipyards Speed Up Submarine Production Amid Concerns About Navy's Future Budgets Beginning next year, the Navy plans to double the production rate to two submarines per year for $2.5 billion apiece.
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National Defense January 2010 Grace V. Jean	Submariners Going 'Back to Basics' The Navy struggles to adequately train mariners to use the technology aboard ships and submarines.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Kieron Murphy	Below the Radar The untold story of how the U.S. Navy trained thousands of radar operators in World War II.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John Keller	Navigation and guidance meets sensor fusion Knowing where you are and where you are going no longer involves only the Global Positioning System (GPS); systems designers are integrating a growing number of sensors and data-fusion algorithms to create fool-proof, jam-proof, real-time positioning information.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007	U.S. Navy Chooses Telephonics Corp. Components for Helicopter Multi-Mode Radar Systems Executives at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration needed a technology partner to aid in the delivery of spare radar system components for use in the U.S. Navy's MH-60 Seahawk helicopters.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Diesel-Electric Submarines, the U.S. Navy's Latest Annoyance Nations in the western Pacific have begun to acquire stealthy diesel-electric submarines, which could one day threaten U.S. access to strategic coastal areas of the world or interrupt the flow of commerce around the globe.
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National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Undersea Combat Simulators Needed, Navy Says The Navy is worried about quiet diesel-electric submarines that are proliferating around the world and particularly in the western Pacific. But officials say the bigger challenge is training sailors to find and engage those submarines.
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National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Seeks to Avert Precipitous Decline in the Size of the Fleet An ambitious Navy plan to expand the size of the fleet not only assumes a considerable surge in spending, but also a fundamental shift in the preparation and execution of ship programs, senior officials say.
National Defense September 2004 Harold Kennedy	Costs, Delays Surface Again for New Attack Submarines Just a year after U.S. Navy officials assured Congress that they had taken steps to stem rising costs and production delays for the newest family of nuclear-powered attack submarines, they now concede that problems may not have gone away.
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National Defense February 2015 Stew Magnuson	Nuclear Power Plants on New Submarines May Last 40-Plus Years The Navy hopes to have the first replacement for the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine on duty by 2031. When that vessel is launched, the on board nuclear power plant is expected to last its entire 40-year service life.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Warship radar technology designers set sights on next-generation Navy cruiser The companies are stressing compliance with Navy "open-architecture" mandates, technology risk reduction, and the need to meet new airborne and missile threats.
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National Defense September 2004 Brian Markle	Sensor-Enhancing Software Helps Detect Diesel Submarines One of the technologies now being used by the German and Swedish navies to counter the threat of quiet submarines is a software architecture called the scalable generic signal processor, or scalable GSP.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Plans to Expand Fleet May Be Unrealistic Amid assurances by the Navy leadership that the latest shipbuilding blueprint is on a safe course, several analysts are sounding alarms. Unless the Navy begins to aggressively cut costs from its shipbuilding programs and pump much more money into these accounts, the plan could fail.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John Keller	Submarine Threat Heats up in the Middle East The Israeli navy's purchase of two more sophisticated attack submarines, which experts say are capable of firing nuclear-tipped cruise missiles that can hit targets in Iran, highlights an emerging and dangerous submarine arms race in and around the Middle East.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson	Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking.