Description
Organization: NAVSEA, PEO (TSC), Naval Warfare Assessment Station
Team Name: Line of Sight (LOS) Network Team
Related Acquisition Topic(s): Acquisition Practices Streamlining, Cycle Time Reduction (CTR), Integrated Product Teams (IPT), Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)
Description:
During calendar year 1999, the Naval Warfare Assessment Station (NWAS) formed a Line-of-Sight (LOS) Network Team to expand and upgrade the AEGIS Performance Assessment Network (APAN), a communications network used to transmit AEGIS Combat System (ACS) and Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) performance data from test ranges, shipyards and land-based test sites to members of the Program Executive Office for Theater Surface Combatants (PEO TSC) technical community. The success of their efforts significantly helped meet PEO TSC's critical need for real-time access to ACS and SM-2 performance assessment data. In rapidly completing the expansion and upgrade of APAN, the LOS Network Team used a combination of innovative engineering and acquisition techniques.
Their efforts provided PEO TSC with a powerful new tool to conduct two-way, secure, high-speed data, voice, and video teleconferencing (VTC) transmissions to AEGIS ships operating on test ranges to distances up to 75 miles during major at-sea combat systems. The NWAS team rapidly, in a short span of six months, designed, engineered, acquired, and installed the improvements to APAN at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Hawaii. Their outstanding efforts allowed PEO TSC to fully support the conduct of air defense (AD) engineering exercises and numerous live Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) firings during two highly complex, multi-million dollar Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQTs) for two new construction AEGIS destroyers.
