Raytheon Selects Sun Microsystems To Participate in Development of the Total Ship Computing Architecture for The DD-21 Gold Team.Business/Technology Editors ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000 Raytheon Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : RTNA RTNA Ring Tone No Answer ; RTNB RTNB Radio Television Nationale du Burundi (Africa) RTNB Return the Next Bit (computers) ) has selected Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Inc. to participate in the engineering effort to design, build and support the total ship computing architecture (TSCA TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (15 USC) TSCA Traditional Small Craft Association (Mystic, CT, USA) TSCA Tibetan Spaniel Club of America TSCA Traditional Siamese Cat Association ) for the U.S. Navy's 21st Century Land Attack Destroyer -- the DD-21. The long-term, exclusive agreement between the two companies includes provisions to assure selection of the best value commercial hardware and software to meet performance and cost requirements. Raytheon, Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding Ingalls Shipbuilding is a shipyard located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, originally established in 1938, and is now part of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. It is a leading producer of ships for the US Navy, and at 10,900 employees, the largest private employer in Mississippi. , and The Boeing Company are the principal members of the DD-21 Gold Team, which is now under contract to develop and deliver a preliminary system design to the Navy. The team is competing to be selected to be the full service contractor to build the lead ship of this new class of vessels for the Navy. The DD 21 TSCA is the ship-wide, all-source information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. and management system supporting all operational functions of the ship. It is also the key contributor to network centric warfare, assuring knowledge superiority and the execution of accurate measured force response. In addition, TSCA will contribute to reducing the crew's workload. "Our priority is to enable the sailor to manage the ship and fight to win, and use TSCA to enhance the quality of life for personnel while they are on board," said Jack Cronin John J. Cronin (born May 26, 1874 in Staten Island, New York, died July 12, 1929 in Middletown, New York) was a 19th century Major League Baseball pitcher. He played from 1895-1904. External links
While the TSCA will be based on open-systems software architecture, the development process, integration, testing, certification and delivery will exploit use of commercial items and reuse of legacy software where appropriate. An effective system of metrics also will be used to assess the maturity of software development. Design of the DD-21 TSCA will benefit from Sun Microsystems' expertise in a variety of information technologies, including processors, operating environments, servers, and displays. The core architectural elements in the TSCA will provide an infrastructure that will allow self-healing and adaptability, with high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of computer resources throughout the network. In addition, Sun Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. will participate in the development of a prototype of the TSCA infrastructure software to validate key aspects of the DD-21 design. Sun is now working on the design and initial development of a software environment that will enable rapid integration, including legacy systems, and the certification of both tactical and non-tactical software for the new ship system. Raytheon Company is a global technology leader that provides products and services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics and business and special mission aircraft. It has operations throughout the United States and serves customers in more than 80 countries. Editor's Note: Phase I of the DD-21 program -- development of competing concept designs by separate Blue and Gold teams -- began in 1998. Phase II follows with a system concept design competition, which will culminate in Blue and Gold team proposals being submitted in December, 2000. This will be followed by a down-select in mid 2001 to one full service contractor team to perform final system/subsystem design. The lead ship is scheduled to be delivered in FY 2008. The Gold Team partnership is supported by more than 40 companies that are technically and geographically diverse, as well as Navy laboratories in the United States and Canada. The Gold Team has successfully completed its Phase I concept design and its Phase II first major review with the U.S. Navy program office (PMS-500). Sun Microsystems' contributions to the DD-21 TSCA design will be based on JINI and JAVA technologies, SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and MAJC (Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing) Pronounced "magic," it is a CPU architecture from Sun for networked appliances. It is designed to support high-speed processing of music, video and other rich media. processors, Solaris Operating Environment, and scalable Sun Enterprise servers and Ultra thin client SunRay displays. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Jini, Java, Solaris, Sun Enterprise and SunRay are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.(c)2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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