Information at Sea

Wolters, Timothy S.

doi:10.1353/book.26768

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“…The first CDS ship fit was HMS Victorious, commissioned in January 1958; its subsequent operational success in exercises against the USN in Exercise "Riptide" (June [15][16][17][18][19][20]1959) was claimed by Benjamin as evidence of its operational worth. He cites USN's opinion that, to counter the raid density, either Victorious had radarequipped fighters or many more aircraft than were actually carried; in fact, the ship only had Scimitar fighters with day/Visual Flight Rule (VFR) capabilities.…”

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“…From its experience, Ferranti Canada became a global player in computer technology during the 1950s and 1960s. 19 DATAR's other legacy was an enduring sense of worth by the RCN engineering community; it also contributed to the development of later naval C2 systems. Following the early Canadian lead, it is ironic that the service then did not touch digital command systems until the DDH-280 Iroquois class in 1972.…”

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The Information Age and Naval Command & Control

Boslaugh

Marland²,

Vardalas

2023

Proc. IEEE

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who have previously written about the postwar development of naval digital systems in their respective countries.Senior naval officers adopted the phrase The Information Age in 1991, using it to introduce the Copernicus concept for radical change in communications and information architectures. 1 This reinforces the point that information (though not necessarily digitally formatted) is the essential commodity, but that sharing it is the key to effective Command & Control (C2). The early (military) systems also underpinned later civil developments. Driven by a critical needThe article focuses on naval technical developments, across the period 1945-1970 in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.for a new form of high-speed computation and information handling, these early digitized Naval C2 systems were some of the first initiators of the Information Age. This article sets the overall chronology; the wartime spirit of cooperation was initially followed by competition, with each country working in semi-isolation, to preserve its own advantage. Gradually, this was replaced by renewed cooperation, especially when the three sought to implement a common tactical data link (TDL).This article focuses on naval technical developments, across the period 1945-1970 in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. It primarily

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Section: Aftermath Of Datarmentioning

confidence: 99%