Navy steps up deployment of Air Defense system. (Security Beat).Pressing ahead with deployment of its Area Air Defense Commander (AADC AADC Australian Antarctic Data Centre (Hobart, Australia) AADC Area Air Defense Commander AADC Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation AADC Automated Area Distribution Center (US Postal Service) ) Capability system, the Navy is working on an advanced battle-space management package designed for both forward-deployed operations and homeland defense. The Naval Sea Systems Command The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is the largest of the U.S. Navy's five "systems commands," or materiel organizations. NAVSEA consists of four shipyards, eight "warfare centers" (two undersea and six surface), four major shipbuilding locations and the NAVSEA headquarters, awarded a contract to General Dynamics General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2006 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world[1]. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. Advanced Information Systems, a subsidiary of Falls Church Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va.-based General Dynamics Corporation, to continue low-rate production and provide engineering support for the system. If all options are exercised, the contract will have a cumulative value of more than $45 million. The AADC system already is installed on the USS USS abbr. 1. United States Senate 2. United States ship USS abbr (= United States Ship) → Namensteil von Schiffen der Kriegsmarine Mount Whitney, a Second Fleet command ship, USS Blue Ridge Three US Navy ships have been named USS Blue Ridge for the Blue Ridge Mountains.
AADC uses commercial off-the-shelf technology to allow joint task force commanders to quickly plan and coordinate air defense across broad operational areas. The system combines information from datalinks into an easily understood graphic representation of the theater, which could be the Persian Gulf or a terrorist-threatened U.S. Atlantic coastline. Friendly forces, hostile aircraft, and cruise and theater ballistic missiles are identified, and their headings and impact zones are indicated in near real time, providing officers with a wide view of the action. AADC uses wide-screen, high-definition displays--supplied by Silicon Graphics Inc., of Mountain View, Calif.--that show the battlespace three-dimensionally. "Although previous systems provided military planners with slices of data, the capability to view an entire theater's air-defense picture did not exist prior to AADC," said Bill Evans, AADC program manager at General Dynamics. |
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