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Preface
The U.S. Navy’s Aegis program is a highly integrated combat system
with anti-air warfare, ballistic missile defense, surface, subsurface, and
strike roles. In order to reduce costs and enable the use of rapidly evolv-
ing commercial computing technology, the Navy is transitioning Aegis
to use open-architecture (OA) software and commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) hardware.
In 2010, the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare
Systems asked the RAND Corporation to evaluate the impact of this
transition on the development, integration, and testing of upgrades
to the Aegis weapon system. Of particular concern is the impact of
modernization and fielding rates on the technical infrastructure of the
Aegis fleet. A previous report by the same authors documented the
methods and findings of that research effort, but incorporated propri-
etary information. This report removes all proprietary information and
incorporates the most recent Navy Aegis plans.
This research was sponsored by the U.S. Navy and conducted
within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND
National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research
and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the U.S.
Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intel-
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Contents
Preface ............................................................................. iii
Figures ............................................................................. ix
Tables .............................................................................. xi
Summary .........................................................................xiii
Acknowledgments ............................................................. xxv
Abbreviations ..................................................................xxvii
ChAPTer One
Introduction ....................................................................... 1
Research Approach ................................................................. 3
Organization of This Report ...................................................... 5
ChAPTer TwO
The IwS Business Model for Aegis Acquisition ............................. 7
Plan and Objectives ................................................................ 7
Distribute Periodic Capability Upgrades to New and In-Service Ships ... 7
Improve Efficiency of Weapon System Development and Support ........ 9
Promote Competition in Weapon System Development ...................10
Leverage Capability Development Across Weapon Systems ...............10
Integrate Aegis and the Missile Defense Agency’s Ballistic Missile
Defense Program ...........................................................11
Enabling Investments .............................................................12
Implementation Choices .........................................................15
Assumptions .......................................................................16
Observations .......................................................................17
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