The test formed part of a wide-ranging modernization effort of the ship’s command and control (C2) capabilities that included integrating tactical data link, computer and display upgrades, a navigation distribution upgrade, and security enhancements.
The CMIS incorporates leading-edge commercial components with sophisticated Exelis-developed operations software. The technology will be deployed aboard two Norwegian Coast Guard capital ships and one ice-strengthened vessel over the next two years.
The Exelis CMIS design provides the performance and scalability needed to meet the requirements of a broad range of maritime platforms. The system can also be easily extended to support new sensor packages such as electronic support measures or advanced sonar systems.
Exelis has been providing CMIS and data link solutions and support to the Norwegian Coast Guard and Navy for more than 20 years. Developed in close collaboration with the Norwegian Navy, the CMIS is an advanced shipboard C2 information system that provides users with the tools they need to enable success in a wide range of naval missions.
Meanwhile, Exelis has been awarded a contract valued at more than $17 million to provide electronic support measures (ESM) technology and services to Sweden through a subcontract with shipbuilder Saab, in Sweden.
Under the contract, Exelis will provide Swedish submarines with the latest model of the sophisticated ES-3701electronic warfare (EW) system (photo), offering a significant capability boost in the areas of situational awareness, targeting, self-protection and surveillance.
The ES-3701 uses a circular array interferometer antenna. This provides precise direction finding over a 360-degree azimuth and at high elevation while maintaining a 100 percent probability of interception.
Through digital technology and modern signal processing, the system intercepts, measures and identifies complex signals, (including Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) in dense radio frequency environments even in the presence of interfering signals.
The ES-3701 is part of a suite of other Exelis EW technologies designed to enable domestic and international customers to perform their critical missions. Leveraging its decades of innovation and experience in the electromagnetic spectrum, Exelis has identified EW as one of the company’s four strategic growth platforms.
