DOT&E Tags Navy For Inadequate Testing Of New DDG-51 With AMDR, Aegis

By Lara Seligman / January 21, 2015 at 12:02 PM
The Pentagon's top weapons tester is tagging the Navy for failing to comply with a direction from the deputy defense secretary to conduct at-sea testing of the self-defense systems on the DDG-51 Flight III destroyers with the Air and Missile Defense Radar and Aegis Combat System, according to his annual report. Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work issued a memorandum on March 6, 2014, that directed the Navy to develop and fund a plan to conduct at-sea testing of the planned...

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