{"id":23007,"date":"2015-10-22T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=23007"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:20:08","slug":"market-test-the-future-submarine-combat-system-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/market-test-the-future-submarine-combat-system-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Market test the Future Submarine combat system (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n The Commonwealth will shortly release a restricted tender to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to determine who should be the lead system integrator<\/a> of the combat system in Australia\u2019s future submarine. The task of the winning bidder will be to integrate a range of yet-to-be-selected sensors (i.e. sonar, ESM, electro-optical and communications systems) and weapons (i.e. torpedoes, missiles and mines) into the heart of the system, the AN\/BYG-1 (BYG) Command and Control (C2) System.<\/p>\n The tender will signal the final transition of the BYG from the future submarine\u2019s \u2018reference C2 system<\/a>\u2019 to \u2018preferred C2 system<\/a>\u2019 to \u2018selected C2 system\u2019; the latter two designations occurring without so much as a sniff of competition or any objective form of baselining, and indeed without any understanding of the cost<\/a>.<\/p>\n