Disrupting the ‘critical linkage’: What is the Navy’s SEWIP?
After troubling Pentagon tester report, prime contractor Lockheed Martin says its working closely with the Navy to address the issues.
By JUSTIN KATZ
on April 04, 2022 at 1:33 AM
WASHINGTON: The electronic warfare capability scheduled for installation onboard several classes of Navy warships experienced multiple problems while in use on an aircraft carrier during testing in April 2021, leading Pentagon weapons testers to doubt whether it will meet key performance goals.
The capability, part of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2, is planned for outfitting on Navy aircraft carriers and destroyers. But testing last year on the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford (CVN-78) showed the system reporting “extraneous contacts for the radio frequency emitters it detects” and misidentifying “non-radio frequency emissions as [anti-ship cruise missiles],” according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester.
The specific issues experienced onboard the carrier were excluded from the annual testing report published by the Pentagon in January, but the issues were described in a different version of the same document labeled as “controlled unclassified information” and made public by the Project on Government Oversight.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/disrupting-the-critical-linkage-what-is-the-navys-sewip/
