Assessing Aegis Program Transition to an Open-Architecture Model

• Main Author: DeLuca, Paul (auth)
• Other Authors: Predd, Joel B. (auth), Nixon, Michael (auth), Blickstein, Irv (auth), Button, Robert W. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2013
• Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Military engineering; Marine engineering; History; Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

To reduce the costs of maintaining the Aegis system, and to take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial computing technology, the U.S. Navy is moving toward open-architecture software, a common source code library, and commercial, off-the-shelf processors. This report examines the potential benefi...