Navy Digital Director: ‘Resist the Urge for Complexity’ in Combat Systems

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Navy Digital Director: ‘Resist the Urge for Complexity’ in Combat Systems
Posted on November 20, 2020 by Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor   
 

ARLINGTON, Va. — The official in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in charge of coordinating interoperability of the combat systems between the Navy’s ships, submarines, aircraft and their sensors said the service needs to “resist the urge to drive up complexity.”   

Kelly McCool, acting director, Digital Warfare Office (DWO), in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, speaking Nov. 19 in the Virtual Combat Systems Symposium sponsored by the American Society of Naval Engineers, was addressing the Navy’s Fully Integrated Combat Force concept.

“We’re not focused on a single integrated combat system on a single platform. We need a force that’s fully integrated and distributed,” McCool said. 

“The first challenge I


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