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Monday, May 05, 2014

With $3.3 billion Zumwalt, Navy trying for smallest blip on radar


Sometime next year, the USS Zumwalt will begin testing the Tomahawk missiles, GPS-guided munitions and “total ship” computing systems that will make the $3.3 billion vessel the most advanced destroyer in Navy history.

But first come the cables – 2.3 million feet of them snaking above, below and alongside every corridor of what is essentially a 600-foot-long floating computer.

“Now you have an all-electric ship,” Todd Estes, manager of the DDG-1000 program at Bath Iron Works, said last week.

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