CEC Concept
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Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) is the US Navy’s secret weapon. Actually, it’s not so secret. It’s just that its relatively low price means often leads people to overlook the revolutionary change it creates for wide-area fleet air and ballistic missile defense.
CEC is far more than a mere data-sharing program, or even a sensor fusion effort. The concept behind CEC is a sensor netting system that allows ships, aircraft, and even land radars to pool their radar and sensor information together, creating a very powerful and detailed picture that’s much finer, more wide-ranging, and more consistent than any one of them could generate on its own. The data is then shared among all ships and participating systems, using secure frequencies. It’s a simple premise, but a difficult technical feat. With huge implications.
This DID FOCUS Article explains those mechanics and implications. It will also track ongoing research, updates, and contracts related to CEC capabilities from 2000 forward.
Co-operative Engagement Capability: How It Works
CEC explained
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Some have described Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) as the true “secret weapon” of AEGIS fleet defense. CEC has applications that reach beyond the sea to ground-based systems, blimps, and even successful ballistic missile defense.
On the one hand, this cooperative brainchild of Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and Raytheon consists only of a raw sensor data distribution system, including the antenna and the cooperative engagement SDP-S processor. Yet those components add up to something incredibly powerful, by bringing radar, sensor and tracking data from a number of widely separated platforms together in one big picture. CEC provides real time integration of fire control quality sensor data, as each CEC unit combines on-ship radar measurement data with those from all other CEC units using the same CEC algorithms. The result is a superior air picture based on all the data available, providing tracks (i.e. identified items) with identical track numbers throughout the net.
There are several components to CEC.
The CEC System
AN/USG-2 CEC. On board ship, the Cooperative Engagement Transmission Processing Set (CETPS) coordinates all task force Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) sensors into a single real time, fire control quality composite track picture which significantly improves battle force AAW defense. The CETPS distributes sensor data from each Cooperating Unit (CU) to all other CUs utilizing a real time, high data rate, line of sight (LOS), fire control quality sensor and engagement data distribution network. This CETPS is extremely jam resistant and provides very accurate gridlocking between units. The data is then combined into a common track picture by employing high capacity, parallel processing and advanced algorithms.
The CETPS is composed of 2 primary system groups and 5 subsystem functions. The 2 primary system groups are the Data Distribution System (DDS) and Cooperative Engagement Processor (CEP).
Data Distribution System (DDS): Encodes and distributes a ship’s own sensor and engagement data. It’s designed as a high capacity, jam resistant, directive system with precision gridlocking, and high throughput.
Cooperative Engagement Processor (CEP): A high capacity distributed processor that’s able to process force levels of data in near real-time. This data is passed to the ship’s combat system as high quality data for which the ship can cue its onboard sensors or use the data to engage targets without actually tracking them.
Installing CEC also involves accompanying Combat System modifications, but the ships targeted for CEC have already had it incorporated into up-to-date combat system software versions. The 5 subsystem functions are Data Distribution, Command/Display Support, Sensor Cooperation, Engagement Decision, and Engagement Execution. There are 4 major U.S. Navy variants of CEC:
AN/USG-2A CEC. Mounted in selected Aegis cruisers and destroyers, LPD-17/LHD amphibious ships, and CVN-68 class aircraft carriers.
AN/USG-2B CEC. This improved shipborne version is used in some refitted and new Aegis ships: Ticonderoga Class cruisers and Arleigh Burke Class destroyers.
AN/USG-3 CEC. In the air, this variant is carried aboard Navy E-2C/D Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft. The E-2C Hawkeye 2000 carries the USG-3, while the E-2D carries the USG-3B variant. On land, the UGS-3 used to integrate high-value assets like Patriot or THAAD missile radars, JLENS aerostat blimps, etc.
At present, the USG-3B version is having trouble maintaining consistent tracks, and is rated as less effective than USG-3. This is a problem that would make the system impossible to depend upon. A fix is in the works, but the problem is serious enough that USG-3B’s development has been decoupled from the larger E-2D development program.
AN/USG-4 CEC. This variant is designed for the USMC CTN. CTN involves CEC equipment on a mobile HMMWV, with an extensible CEC antenna for transmission. It integrates into the USMC Command and Control system, and allows transmissions to the fleet from USMC assets like the AN/TPS-59 long range radars.
Why CEC Really is a Game Changer
Sea-Land CEC
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Ships and other platforms using CEC get more than a detailed picture – they can extend engagement ranges through cooperative engagements, such as handover of missile control from the launching platform to another ship or radar that is better able to see and illuminate the target. This is especially helpful with long-range anti-air missiles like the SM-3 Standard, which have ranges of several hundred miles. The goal is for all CETPS-equipped combat system elements in a battle group to function as a single distributed system; it even allows multiple battle groups to conduct netted operations, sharing common picture and tactical capabilities.
The resulting sensor fusion:
Significantly improves weapons tracking consistency and continuity. As a USNI Proceedings article notes: “There are many factors besides the horizon that can affect radar detection. These include the radar cross-section of the target itself, radar clutter, atmospherics (particularly those typical of the Arabian Gulf area), closely spaced targets, jamming, and terrain blockage. In both scripted and unscripted test scenarios, individual radars frequently have difficulty maintaining continuous, accurate tracks.”
Expands detection ranges, which offers more reaction time. As supersonic cruise missile proliferate and other cruise missiles become more common, this becomes a critical requirement.
Enables entirely new engagement strategies against threats based around CEC’s capabilities.
This combination of capabilities makes CEC a critical linchpin of the U.S. Navy’s Sea Shield and FORCEnet doctrines under Seapower 21. Those doctrines have frayed when set against the realities of American procurement, but CEC remains as critical as ever.
CEC is installed or planned for refit aboard all American Aegis cruisers and destroyers, DDG 1000 destroyers, and LHD and LHA amphibious aerial assault ships. It’s also installed at some land based test sites, and as noted above, is integrated with various land and air systems.
Other customers to date include Australia (Hobart Class destroyers). Canada has been listed as a minor engineering services client, but the designated platform isn’t clear yet, and Britain opted out of CEC for its ships in 2012.
CEC: Contracts and Key Events: 2000 – Present
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Unless noted otherwise, US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in Washington, DC issued these contracts, and Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems in St. Petersburg, FL is the contractor. St. Petersburg, Florida is also where work takes place, unless otherwise specified.
FY 2014
NGC on E-2D
May 29/14: CEC. Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Largo, Florida, is being awarded an $11 million contract modification. It exercises an option for 5 AN/USG-3B Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Airborne Systems, which will be installed in carrier-borne E-2D radar AEW&C planes. The systems need to be installed in new aircraft now, even though performance has been a problem (q.v. Jan 28/14).
All funds are committed immediately. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (90%) and Largo, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by November 2015 (N00024-12-C-5231).
Jan 28/14: DOT&E Testing Report. The Pentagon releases the FY 2013 Annual Report from its Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E). CEC is included, but the entry focuses on the USG-3B module used in E-2D naval AWACS aircraft. Bottom line: it’s worse than the USG-3 carried by its E-2C predecessors. UGS-3B is operationally suitable (maintainable), but not operationally effective.
Key problems include misalignments that make it hard to depend on consistent object tracking between platforms – which is CEC’s core purpose. In a similar vein, the system has an issue with dual tracks for single objects that’s well above normal. There are also integration problems with the mission computer, and EM interference problems that affect the radar altimeter. The problems were persistent enough that the Navy decoupled CEC testing from the E-2D’s own IOT&E evaluation as a new platform.
Nov 25/13: A $7.1 million contract modification exercises options for CEC engineering services. $1.9 million is committed immediately, from a wide variety of Navy budgets. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL, and is expected to be complete by September 2014 (N00024-13-C-5212).
FY 2012 – 2013
UK out. Raytheon locked in.
Sept 27/13: 2014-18 DA/ES. Raytheon receives a contract effectively locking in CEC design agent/engineering services for the next 5 years. According to the Navy’s justification for the sole source, competing the contract would have led to a delay of at least 42 months, since getting a new contractor up to speed would alone take 18 months.
NAVAIR does want to regain the ability to compete the program in the future. First they need to get approval for a set of new CEC functionality under Capability Production Document (CPD) Increment II, which they hope to do in January 2015. Then a competition for CEC design and development would take place through 2015, followed by an award for FY2016-20.
The award is for a $32.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee sole source contract. However if the included options are exercised, the cumulative value reaches a maximum of $236.7 million. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL, and is expected to be completed by September 2014 (N00024-13-C-5212) for the initial base year, with 4 option years. It covers an estimated 1.7 million hours and follows the FY 2008-13 DAES contract (N00024-08-C-5202).
DAES contract
Sept 27/13: antennas. Raytheon is awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee $7.3 million contract for CEC Common Array Block (CAB) antennas. Work starts from a systems requirements review, up to production of 2 versions of the CAB antenna. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, Fla., and is expected to be completed by October 2019 (N00024-13-C-5230).
Aug 27/13: USA. Raytheon in Largo, FL received a $15 million contract modification for CEC production. All funds are committed immediately. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (73%), Dallas, TX (15%), and St. Petersburg, FL (12%), and is expected to be complete by October 2014 (N00024-12-C-5231).
Jul 26/13: Production RFP. NAVSEA releases a solicitation for the manufacture, assembly, and test of CEC shipboard, airborne, and land mobile systems, Installation and Checkout Kits (INCO), backfits, and provisioned item orders. They intend to award a single Firm Fixed Price and Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract of 1 base year and 7 option years. The response date, originally set to Sept 26, is later postponed to Dec. 5. N00024-13-R-5228.
April 15/13: A $30 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only contract modification for CEC design agent and engineering services.
Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (90%), and Largo, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by September 2013. The funds are being drawn from FY 2012 and 2013 RDT&E budgets, and FY 2013 Operations & Maintenance, Shipbuilding & Conversion, and Other Procurement budgets. The contract commits $2.1 million immediately, with $1.6 million set to expire at the end of the current fiscal year, on Sept 30/13. US Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC manages the contract (N00024-08-C-5202).
April 10/13: FY 2014 Budget. The President releases a proposed budget at last, the latest in modern memory. The Senate and House were already working on budgets in his absence, but the Pentagon’s submission is actually important to proceedings going forward. See ongoing DID coverage.
With respect to CEC, it notes that the USN has begun a fleet-wide Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) effort to make CEC equipment weigh and cost less, fit into smaller spaces, and require less power and cooling. CEC P3I will comply with Category 3 Open Architecture Core Environment (OACE) hardware standards, while rehosting existing software. A family of antennas approach will be used, and a competitive contract for Common Array Block (CAB) antenna production is planned in FY 2014.
Nov 26/12: Raytheon in Largo, FL receives a $9.4 million not-to-exceed, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification for design agent and engineering services to the CEC program. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (90%), and Largo, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by March 2013. $1.5 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, on Sept 30/13 (N00024-08-C-5202).
Oct 1/12: USA. A $20.3 million not-to-exceed firm-fixed-price letter contract for Cooperative Engagement Capabilities (CEC) production during fiscal years 2012-2013.
Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (90%) and Largo, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by September 2014. This contract was not competitively procured. (N00024-12-C-5231).
Sept 21/12: SM-6 test. The high-altitude JLENS radar aerostat is part of a test involving the new SM-6 naval defense missile. During the test, JLENS’ fire-control radar acquired and tracked a target that mimicked an anti-ship cruise missile, then Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) was used to pass the data on to the firing ship. The missile was fired, and used JLENS’ targeting data to move into range of its own radar, before picking up the target and destroying it.
Many tests use CEC, but this one was an especially good illustration of the concept in action. Raytheon.
Sept 7/12: Support. Raytheon in Largo, FL received a $7.3 million contract modification for CEC design agent and engineering support services. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (90%), and Largo, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by March 2013.
$2.8 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, on Sept 30/12, bringing the FY 2012 total to $70.2 million (N00024-08-C-5202).
June 11/12: No CEC, please, we’re British. The UK decides that CEC for its 6 Daring Class destroyers and forthcoming Type 26 frigates, is a “lesser priority”, and decides not to spend around GBP 500 million to implement it. Media coverage criticized the decision, and the UK MoD’s blog responded that:
“The MoD’s comprehensive assessment of CEC informed the decision made during PR12 that it was not necessary to commit to purchasing the capability at this stage. As the Defence Secretary made clear last month, the MoD budget has headroom of £8bn over the next 10 years for potential new programmes. The Armed Forces Committee will prioritise which projects to commit to when necessary, and not before.”
CEC is more important to the Type 45 air defense destroyers, but its absence will push the Type 26 toward an international positioning as a mid-tier frigate, instead of a high-end ship. Daily Telegraph | Defence Management.
UK backs out
April 24/12: Australia? Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. in Melville, NY receives an $8.8 million contract modification for AN/SPQ-9B cooperative engagement capability (CEC) interface kits and antenna group upgrade kits. The AN/SPQ-9B radar system compensates for known weaknesses in ships’ S-band SPY-1 main radar, and CEC creates a common picture of the battlespace for participating ships. The USA’s DDG-51 destroyers don’t have SPQ-9 radars, but USN CG-47 cruisers do, and Australia’s Hobart Class destroyers will (q.v. May 5/08 entry).
Work will be performed in Baltimore, MD (80%); Melville, NY (15%); and Norwalk, CT (5%), and is expected to be complete by May 2013 (N00024-10-C-5343).
Dec 20/11: Sub-contractors. Small business qualifier Sechan Electronics, Inc. in Lititz, PA receives a $64.2 million indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for CEC signal data processor Sierra (SDP-S) CEP production units and engineering support. Concurrently, the company is being issued the initial firm-fixed-price delivery order in the amount $13.8 million for 84 SDP-S assemblies.
SDP-S provides the core of the CEC system, providing the processing capability for sensor track fusion on land, sea, and air platforms. The latest units will incorporate the Sierra II cryptographic chip to meet cryptographic modernization requirements, and use commercial-off-the-shelf components to move CEC toward open architecture requirements.
Work will be performed in Lititz, PA, and is expected to be complete by October 2016. This contract combines purchases for the US Navy and multiple partner countries. Specific countries will be identified on the individual delivery orders, which may or may not reach the Pentagon’s $5 million announcement threshold. The first delivery order includes foreign military sales to Australia (6%). This requirement was synopsized on FBO.gov, with 1 offer received (N00024-12-D-5203).
Dec 1/11: Support. A $67.4 million contract modification for CEC design agent and engineering support services.
Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (90%), and Largo, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by September 2012. This Pentagon’s announcement said that it “combines purchases for the US Navy (50%), and the government of Australia (4%) under the Foreign Military Sales Program”… DID is aware that this is nowhere near 100%. $8.4 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, on Sept 30/12 (N00024-08-C-5202).
FY 2009 – 2011
Production equipment for DDG 1000, CVN 78, E-2D.
Left for Valhalla…
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March 31/11: CVN-72. An $8.1 million contract modification for AN/USG-2B systems delivery and test aboard the Nimitz Class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln [CVN 72, headed into deep refit] and CVN 78, the first-of class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (47%); St. Petersburg, FL (20%); Dallas, TX (18%); and McKinney, TX (15%), and is expected to be completed by May 2013 (N00024-08-C-5203).
May 20/10: US, Canada, UK. A $31.9 million modification to previously awarded contract for the design agent and engineering services for the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program.
This modification combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (96%), and the governments of Australia (3%) and Canada (1%) under the Foreign Military Sales program. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (80%), St. Petersburg, FL (19%), and Dallas, TX (1%), and is expected to be complete by September 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $3 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, on Sept 30/10 (N00024-08-C-5202).
April 14/10: US, UK. An $8.1 million modification to a previously awarded contract for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) system production. This modification combines purchases for the U.S. Navy (97.3%) and the government of the United Kingdom (2.7%) under the Foreign Military Sales program.
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (47%); St. Petersburg, FL (20%); Dallas, TX (18%); and McKinney, TX (15%), and is expected to be complete by January 2012 (N00024-08-C-5203).
March 18/10: US, UK. A $13.7 million modification to previously awarded contract for the design agent and engineering services for the cooperative engagement capability (CEC) system. This contract combines purchases for the US Navy (97%) and the government of the United Kingdom (3%) under the Foreign Military Sales program.
A 3% participation share may not seem like much, but the UK has been absent from past CEC contracts covered here. There has been some controversy over their new Type 45 air defense destroyer’s lack of CEC capability, and a firm decision was expected in 2010 (N00024-08-C-5202).
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (80%); St. Petersburg, FL (19%); and Dallas, TX (1%), and is expected to be complete by September 2011.
Dec 23/09: A $12.7 million modification to previously awarded contract for production and testing of Cooperative Engagement Capability systems. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (47%); St. Petersburg, FL (20%); Dallas, TX (18%); and McKinney, TX (15%). Work is expected to be completed by September 2012 (N00024-08-C-5203).
Dec 22/09: A $6 million modification to a previously awarded contract for CEC design agent and engineering services. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (80%), St. Petersburg, FL (19%), and Dallas (1%). Work is expected to be complete by December 2010 (N00024-08-C-5202).
Nov 30/09: E-2D. A $6.8 million modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-5203) build and test AN/USG-3B Airborne Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Systems for use on the Navy’s new E-2D Hawkeye AWACS aircraft.
The AN/USG-3B will create a shared fleet defense capability for the E-2D that will reportedly include assistance with ballistic missile tracking. China’s introduction of anti-ship ballistic missiles will make that a valuable capability twice over.
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (80%); St. Petersburg, FL (19%), and Dallas, TX (1%), and is expected to be complete by June 2011.
June 5/09: Sub-contractors. Science Applications International Corp. in St. Petersburg, FL wins a $5.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for the fabrication, assembly, and testing of compact solid state CEC antennas. These small, lightweight antennas would support mobile applications of the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) system, including the Marine Corps Composite Track Network (CTN) and the U.S. Army’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor aerostat (JLENS). The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $18.4 million.
Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is expected to be complete by June 2010. This contract was competitively procured through full and open competition via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online and Federal Business Opportunities websites, with 2 proposals received by the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, DC (N00024-09-C-5213).
Feb 2/09: DDG 1000. Raytheon announces that the first production equipment has been delivered for the U.S. Navy’s DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer – a Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) planar array antenna assembly.
Dec 19/08: A $25.8 million modification to previously awarded contract for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) System Production. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (47%); St. Petersburg, FL (20%); Dallas, TX (18%); and McKinney, TX (15%); and is expected to be complete by April 2011 (N00024-08-C-5203).
Dec 15/08: A $41.8 million modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-5202) for Cooperative Engagement Capability support services. Work will be performed in Largo, FL and is expected to be complete by Dec. 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $813,163 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
FY 2006 – 2008
Interest from Australia.
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July 21/08: A $29.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce CEC systems and provide ancillary support for the Navy, Marines and Army. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $135.9 million.
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (47%), St. Petersburg, FL, (20%), Dallas, TX (18%), and McKinney, TX (15%); and is expected to be complete by March of 2010. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-08-C-5203).
May 5/08: Australia. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announces [PDF] Australia’s formal request for AEGIS Combat System components and services, to equip their forthcoming Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers.
These items include 3 AN/SPQ-9B Horizon Search Radars, 3 Cooperative Engagement Capability Systems, 3 Naval Fire Control Systems, 3 Multi-Functional Information Distribution Systems, MK160 Gun Computer System, AIMS MK XII Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), and AN/SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasure suites and decoys, for. The request also includes unspecified communication and information distribution systems, U.S. Government and contractor engineering and logistics personnel services, personnel training and training equipment, support and test equipment, spare and repair parts, publications and technical documentation, and other related elements of logistics support. The estimated cost is $450 million.
The principal contractors will be: Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensor in Moorestown, NJ and Eagan, MN; Raytheon Systems Company in St. Petersburg, FL; and Northrop Grumman Corporation in Melville, NY.
Implementation of this proposed sale will require the assignment of 3 contractor representatives in Australia for approximately 3 months during the preparation, equipment installations, and equipment test and checkout of the Cooperative Engagement Capability systems and the AN/SPQ-9B radar.
Australia request
Jan 17/08: A not-to-exceed ceiling price of $62.6 million for cost reimbursement, letter contract for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) design agent and engineering services. This contract will support existing CEC baselines, support equipment and computer program installations at Raytheon’s engineering labs, land-based test sites, Navy field activities, Fleet assets and other Government assets, as required.
Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL, and is expected to be complete by Jan. 2009. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-08-C-5202).
April 27/07: A $59.1 million fixed-price, award fees requirements contract for logistics support of the AN/USG-2 shipboard and AN/USG-3 airborne Cooperative Engagement Capability systems. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (80%), and St. Petersburg, FL (20%), and work is expected to be complete by April 2012. This contract was not awarded competitively by the Naval Inventory Control Point (N00104-07-D-L001).
March 8/07: A $16.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification under previously awarded contract for the FY 2007 engineering services and design agent requirements for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Work will be performed at St. Petersburg, FL (95%) and Largo, FL (5%), and is expected to be complete by September 2008.
Raytheon described this contract as “technical support to the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems and includes technical reports, studies, ship-board and on-site support, assessment/ evaluation of legacy software problem reports, support to fleet events, and obsolete parts management”; and added Dallas, TX and McKinney, TX to its locations (N00024-06-C-5101).
Raytheon announced the March 8/07 and Feb 28/07 contracts together in an April 10/07 release.
Feb 28/07: A $31.9 million firm-fixed-price modification under previously awarded contract for FY 2006 add-on requirements and FY 2007 option requirements for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (52%); St. Petersburg, FL (23%); Dallas, TX (15%) and McKinney, TX (10%) and is expected to be complete in March 2009. Raytheon described the award as encompassing “assembly, inspection, test and engineering support for seven AN/USG-2A Shipboard CEC systems as well as spares.”
The FY 2006 add-on requirement is for 5 each: Red Media Converters, Black Media Converters, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Cesium Standards, Battery Packs, Monitor and Keyboards, KVM Switches and Install Kits; 10 Base Computers; four Installation and Checkout (Replenishment) Kit Lists (INCOs); and one On-Board Repair Parts (OBRP).
The FY 2007 option exercise is for 8 each: Antenna Environmental Control Units (AECU), Rack Assemblies, Red Media Converters, Black Media Converters, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Cesium Standards, Battery Packs, Monitor and Keyboards, KVM Switches and Install Kits; six CEP Input/Output Converters (CIOC); 16 Base Computers; nine Planar Array Antenna Assemblies (PAAA); one OBRP; one INCO and integration and final acceptance testing of the AN/USG-2(A) System (N00024-06-C-5102).
April 13/06: A $19 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previous contract exercises an option for cooperative engagement capability (CEC) design agent support. Work is expected to be complete March 2008 (N00024-06-C-5101).
March 20/06: A $10.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification under a previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-5101). This exercises an option for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) design agent support.
Feb 9/06: A $10.7 million firm-fixed-price modification under a previously awarded contract, exercising an option for the FY 2006 requirements of the US Navy’s CEC program. The option is for three antenna environmental control units; the CEP input/ output converter and planar array antenna assembly which comprises the AN/USG-2(A) CEC terminal will be government-provided.
Work on this contract will be performed in Largo, FL (55%); St. Petersburg, FL (31%); Dallas, TX (9%); McKinney, TX (4%); and El Segundo, CA (1%), and is expected to be completed by October 2007 (N00024-06-C-5102).
Jan 30/06: SSDS interface. Sometimes CEC is just present as a key interface. Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems Division in San Diego, CA received a $5.4 million modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-5110) for 37,253 hours of design agent engineering in support of the MK2 Ship Self Defense System (SSDS). Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be complete by September 2006. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity.
SSDS MK 2 provides improved ship self defense capabilities against Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) attack for select ships by integrating existing and programmed Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) stand-alone defensive systems and providing an automated quick response and multi-target engagement capability emphasizing performance in the littoral environment. SSDS also has embedded combat direction system capabilities that allow automated detection, control and engagement against identified threats. Battle Group interoperability “is provided by interfaces with the Cooperative Engagement Capability and tactical data information links.”
Dec 8/05: A $7.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for FY 2006 item requirements for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Requirements are for two Antenna Environmental Control Units; Input/Output Converter and Planar Array Antenna Assembly, which comprise the AN/USG-2(A); three Installation and Checkout kits and four Planar Array Antenna Assemblies.
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (55%); St. Petersburg, FL (31%); Dallas, TX (9%); McKinney, TX (4%); and El Segundo, CA (1%), and is expected to be completed by August 2007. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-06-C-5102).
FY 2004 – 2005
P3I upgrades
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June 9/05: Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems in St. Petersburg, FL received an $8.4 million modification to previously awarded contract for investigation and study of the radio waveform used by the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. Work on this radio waveform research contract will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (65%); and Largo, FL (35%), and is expected to be complete by February 2006. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C issued the contract.
March 15/05: A $10 million modification under previously awarded contract for an additional 4 USG-2 Planar Array Antenna Assemblies (PAAA). The assembly is a component of the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) System (N00024-03-C-5118).
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (55%); St. Petersburg, FL (31%); Dallas, TX (9%); McKinney, TX (4%); and El Segundo, CA (1%), and is expected to be complete by January 2007 (N00024-05-C-5101).
Feb 24/05: P3I upgrades. A $13.3 million engineering services contract for pre-planned product improvement (P3I) to the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. The improvement will modify current CEC processor terminals to meet reduced size, weight, cost, power and cooling objectives. Raytheon will be required to complete the development and testing of the P3I terminal for use as a Navy operational asset. They will also be required to manufacture one P3I terminal as part of this contract.
Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (65%) and Largo, FL (35%), and is expected to be completed by September 2005. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured (N00024-05-C-5102).
Feb 10/05: A $32 million firm-fixed-price contract for the FY 2005 production of the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Requirements provided will be 4 USG-2 shipboard CEC systems; an associated Installation and Check Out spare kit; 2 USG-3 airborne CEC systems and associated data.
Work will be performed in Largo, FL (55%); St. Petersburg, FL(31%); Dallas, TX (9%); McKinney, TX (4%); and El Segundo, CA (1%), and is expected to be completed in June 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured (N00024-05-C-5101).
Dec 15/04: A $10/3 million cost-plus-award-fee modification under previously awarded contract for FY 2005 design agent support for the Navys Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Work will be performed at Raytheon in St. Petersburg, FlL and is expected to be complete December 2005 (N00024-03-C-5118).
April 14/04: A $9.6 million cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5118) for Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) to the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) system. The P3I effort will re-host current Block 1 software onto CEC processors compliant with Open Architecture Computing Environment standards. The re-host onto more modern processor technology will also significantly reduce cost, weight, power and cooling requirements for the CEC processor set. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is expected to be complete by September 2005.
P3I upgrades
Feb 3/04: An $8.6 million cost-plus-award-fee modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5118) to exercise an option for FY 2004 Block 1 engineering and technical support and services and data distribution system technology refresh requirements for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is expected to be complete by September 2004.
Dec 12/03: A $47.6 million firm fixed-price contract for the FY 2004 production requirements of the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. The contract will support the production of 8 CEC systems, associated spares and data. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (55%); St. Petersburg, FL (31%); Dallas, TX (9%); McKinney, TX (4%); and El Segundo, CA (1%), and is expected to be complete by June 2006. The contract was not competitively procured (N00024-04-C-5100)
Dec 12/03: A $12.8 million firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-01-C-5169) for production of 4 AN-USG-3 back-fit kits for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (55%); St. Petersburg, FL (31%); Dallas, TX (10%); and McKinney, TX (4%), and is expected to be complete by December 2005.
Nov 26/03: A $16.3 million cost-plus-award-fee modification under a previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5118) to exercise an option for FY 2004 Block 1 engineering services and design agent requirements for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (95%) and Largo (5%), FL, and is expected to be complete by September 2004. Contract funds in the amount of $1.8 million will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
FY 2000 – 2003
LRIP Lot 3. Baseline 2.1. E-2C.
E-2C Hawkeye
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July 15/03: E-2C. a $15.7 million modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5118) for the FY 2003 Block 1 engineering services and Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) operational test program set (OTPS) requirements for the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. The CASS OPTS is a maintenance test support set for a Navy flight line associated with E-2C aircraft and CEC USG-3 equipment installed in said aircraft. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg., FL (95%), and Largo, FL (5%), and is expected to be complete by June 2004.
June 25/03: A $5,222,667 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5104) for one (1) additional FY 2003 production shipboard Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) System. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (77%), and St. Petersburg, FL (23%), and is expected to be complete by September 2005.
May 1/03: An $89.7 million contract for FY 2003 Navy Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program production requirements: 13 CEC systems, 3 planar array antenna assemblies, 1 stand-alone cooperative engagement processor, associated spares and data. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (77%), and St. Petersburg, FL (23%), and is expected to be complete by September 2005 (N00024-03-C-5104).
Feb 3/03: $12.4 million to exercise a cost-plus-award-fee option under previously awarded contract for cooperative engagement capability (CEC) design agent support. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is to be completed by September 2003. Contract funds in the amount $5.6 millions will expire at the end of the current fiscal year (N00024-99-C-5110).
Dec 19/02: A $.3 million cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract for FY 2003 Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program design agent support. This modification includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total cumulative contract value to $16 million. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is to be complete by April 2004 (N00024-99-C-5110).
Sept 6/02: A $75.1 million modification to previously awarded contract for the FY 2002 production requirements of the Navy’s Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Program. This action definitizes the contract and will support the build of 10 CEC systems, 1 sand-alone Cooperative Engagement Processor, associated spares and data. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (90%), and St. Petersburg, FL (10%), and is expected to be complete by May 2004 (N00024-02-C-5103).
April 24/02: A $50.9 million fixed-price contract for FY 2002 Navy Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program long-lead material production requirements. Work will be performed in Largo, FL (90%) and St. Petersburg, FL (10%), and is to be complete by May 2004. This contract is awarded on a sole source basis (N00024-02-C-5103).
April 1/02: A $6.1 million cost-plus-award-fee modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Design Agent support. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is to be complete by September 2002. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-99-C-5110).
Aug 2/01: Baseline 2.1. A $6.7 million modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for changes to the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program’s Baseline 2.1 development. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is expected to be complete in September 2002 (N00024-99-C-5110).
Baseline 2.1 SDD
June 29/01: A $63.9 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide seven additional LRIP (low rate initial production) units of the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Raytheon shall manufacture, assemble, test and deliver AN/USG-2 and AN/USG-3 systems that meet the requirements of the CEC program. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL, and is expected to be completed by September 2003. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-01-C-5169).
May 4/01: a $10 million modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for the development of Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC)/Enhanced Communication Capability. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is expected to be complete by December 2001. The contract was not competitively procured (N00024-99-C-5110).
Feb 22/01: A $20.9 million cost-plus-award-fee contract for the FY 2001 design agent support requirements for the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL and is expected to be complete by September 2002.
Feb 22/01: A $12.2 million modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for the Low Cost Planar Array Antenna for the Cooperative Engagement Capability program. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, FL (50%) and Largo, FL (50%), and is expected to be complete by January 2003. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-99-C-5100).
May 26/2000: E-2C. A $34.2 million fixed-price contract for to procure 6 Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Low Rate Initial Production USG-3 Airborne units for E-2C Hawkeye AWACS aircraft. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg/Largo, FL (86%); Menlo Park, CA (9%); and Nashua, NH (5%); and is expected to be complete by March 2002. This contract was not competitively procured (N00024-00-C-5145).
May 1/2000: LRIP-3. Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Lee Buchanan authorized the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) program to move forward with the 3rd of 4 low rate initial production (LRIP) buys. The LRIP 3 procurement provides additional units of the CEC AN/USG-2 installed in larger ships and the AN/USG-3 for aircraft and smaller land unit use. These units will be implemented in new construction of ship hulls, LPD 18, DDG 84, DDG 85, DDG 86, DDG 91, DDG 92 and for installations onboard the USS Eisenhower and two E-2C aircraft. The authorization also includes 2 additional research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) units for continued integration of CEC with the United States Marine Corps air defense systems.
Following the fourth decision, the program will complete operation evaluation and will launch full rate production of the AN/USG-2 (Army Navy/General Utility Special Type Fire Control System) shipboard unit in FY 2002. The LRIP 3 decision also marks the CEC program joint effort transition to Office of the Secretary of Defense oversight to acquisition category “ID” status. See US DoD release for additional details.
LRIP Lot 3 OKed
Additional Readings
Background: CEC
US Navy – CEC – Cooperative Engagement Capability
Global Security – Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) AN/USG-2(V) Cooperative Engagement Transmission Processing Set
US Navy NAVAIR, VX-20: E-2C Projects. Includes CEC integration.
A. James Clark School of Engineering – alumnus Dr. Jerry Krill honored for his CEC work
US Naval Institute, Proceedings magazine (May 2002) – CEC Provides Theater Air Dominance. By USN Rear Admiral Phil Balisle & USN Captain Tom Bush.
COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) Journal (August 2001) – Navy Floats Network-Centric Warfare in COTS-based CEC [PDF]
US DoD (May 1/2000) – US Cooperative Engagement Capability Program Achieves Key Acquisition Decision. “The LRIP 3 decision also marks the CEC program joint effort transition to Office of the Secretary of Defense oversight to acquisition category “ID” status.” Describes aspects of CEC test and deployment.
US Navy League Sea Power Magazine (March 2000) – Changing the Face of War. By two CEC program managers; covers some aspects of its development, the issues it had to work through, and its potential.
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (2000) – Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities. See esp. chapter 3: Integrating Naval Force Elements for Network-Centric Operations – A Mission-Specific Study
Related Doctrines
US Navy (2002 edition) – A Program Guide to the U.S. Navy. See esp. Chapter 3: Requirements to Capabilities.
USN NWDC, via Wayback – Sea Shield. Part of the Sea Power 21 set of doctrines.
USN – FORCENet: A Functional Concept for the 21st Century [PDF]. From 2005.
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