CANES completes design and development

The Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) project has completed its design, development and limited deployment phase.

CANES replaces five legacy shipboard C4I systems with a single common package. Northrop Grumman has delivered 37 shipsets for different ship classes since 2012, according to a company news release.

"The Navy used one of our CANES configurations and applied it to a destroyer and a cruiser, demonstrating the flexibility of our design to reduce network variants by ship class," said Sam Abbate, vice president of the command and control division at Northrop Grumman Information Systems.

"By maximizing commonality, Northrop Grumman has delivered dozens of affordable, highly capable shipsets to enable warfighter information dominance," Abbate said.

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