Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven President
Intercept dangerous narcotics cargo, perform search and rescue, break the ice in the Arctic to help open up strategic waterways. They work closely with the Navy to ensure maritime security and counterterrorism counter piracy off the coast of the United States and of course, increasingly, all around the world. The US Coast Guard and they’re building a new medium cutter called OPC. The offshore patrol cutter is much longer than the 210 foot and 70 foot medium class handles and cutters it’s replacing is 360 feet and
Michael Corrigan, Northrop Grumman
the opcs are designed to conduct various various missions for the coastline, including but but certainly not limited to, what they refer to is PWCS or ports waterways and coastal security, maritime law enforcement which could include both immigrants in drug interdiction. They also search and rescue is certainly a big part of permission. And then there’s there’s other Homeland Security and Defense operations that the ship can also perform.
Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven President
So Eastern shipbuilding grew up in partnership with Northrop Grumman have in large measure, architected this ship to align with an emerging multi service strategy, Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard’s called advantages sake. And the concept is among many things to engineer better networks interoperable surface ships that can ally with the importance of distributed operations. And this is where a company like Northrop Grumman comes in because they’re known for C for ASR sensor Systems Command and Control computing. And they’ve engineered a variety of next generation systems to enable better data consolidation, information sharing interoperability and, and of course sensors
Michael Corrigan, Northrop Grumman
This ship uses to Northrop Grumman navigation sensors one the Mark 27 F and the others the market 39 mod four A, which are both gyro competencies. The Mark 27 F is there to provide attitude and paying information while the while the Mark 30 994. A is a true inertial navigation system.
Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven President
A big portion of this is also navigational Systems Technology Engineering part to enable ships to function even in the event there’s a GPS denied environment. That’s increasingly something of great importance to the Pentagon and the Coast Guard is this notion of positioning navigation and timing, having technical systems that can help navigate the ship. Even if in the event of a combat circumstance or some kind of jamming environment. GPS was no longer functional. The ship is larger the ship is also an engineer with something called the integrated bridge system. As well as data consolidation and specific kinds of high speed math faster processing computing,
Michael Corrigan, Northrop Grumman
The IDS are in your integrated bridge provides centralized access essential information, command and control information to enable safe and efficient transit during during those operations. The performance of these sensors allow the crew to provide very accurate position data to numerous sensors across the ship, even in a GPS denied environment, which is really critical. And that data is all routed to and from sensors inclusive of the combat Weapon System onboard the ship. Utilizing the Northrop Grumman provided navigation data distribution system.
Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven President
The ship is now being built and it will set sail for the first time as soon as later this year. The first one is called the Argus the OPC does a bit of what you might call a hybrid boat doesn’t tutorial or coastal patrol missions, search and rescue as well as deep water although there’s not quite a deep water cutter expand technology of the new LPC is intended to fully accommodate the multi service strategy which specifically cites the Coast Guard is increasingly vital to ongoing security operations. Both around the homeland is that’s increasingly threatened in a great power warfare type environment, as well as international waterways. So the idea is to build a new ship that can better accommodate the important strategic and tactical aims of both the Navy and the Marine Corps as well of course the Coast Guard to have a better and more secure fleet for the future. Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven
