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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Aegis upgrade fitted on USS Bunker Hill

Lockheed Martin's new Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System has been fitted in the U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill -- CG 52.

The Aegis upgrade system was fitted on schedule Aug. 25, the company announced last week in a statement.

Lockheed Martin said the new Aegis system employs easily purchased "commercial off-the-shelf computing hardware and open system software."

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