Navy ships to receive new communications gear

U.S. Navy shipboard communications experts are making plans to install new and upgraded intra-ship communications gear aboard the nation's fleet of aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.

Officials of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic (SPAWARSYSCEN Atlantic) in Charleston, S.C., announced plans this week to issue a formal industry solicitation for the Interior Communication Systems-Integrated Voice Network (IVN) program.

The IVN project will call for a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based modernization of the telephone systems aboard aircraft carriers, amphibious ships, and command ships with the IVN system. The solicitation should be released later this month.

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