Lockheed Martin's First Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System Comes to Life on U.S. Navy Cruiser USS Bunker Hill

Lockheed Martin's new Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System came to life during the week of Aug. 25, on schedule and exactly as planned, aboard the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52).

The Aegis open architecture configuration was installed aboard Bunker Hill as part of that ship's modernization.

During this milestone testing event, power was successfully applied to the newest version of the world's most advanced naval weapon system, developed using commonly-available, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computing hardware and open system software.

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