Combat and Control Systems (CCS)

Introduction

The Combat and Control System (CCS) Section provides engineering and operation test and evaluation expertise to the Department of National Defence (DND) in the area of Combat Systems Engineering. CCS staff have considerable in depth knowledge and experience in weapons and sensors of the Above Water Battlespace (AWB), the Underwater Battlespace (UWB), and Command, Control Communications and Information (C4I) warfare areas. The Section provides this expertise from an engineering and operational perspective supporting technical, operational and tactical firings, modeling and simulation, operational test and evaluation and event reconstruction. Trial and shipboard engineering support is also provided to all class of ships of the Canadian Navy and to the Victoria Class Submarines as well as the Fleet Maintenance Facilities (FMF's) of both coasts.

The CCS section also provides the home for the In-Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) which provides test and evaluation services of the MK 48 Seasparrow Guided Missile System, to the NATO Seasparrow Project Office (NSPO) in Arlington, Virginia and the thirteen country weapon system consortium, plus Japan and Chile.

Expertise

Services and capabilities of the CCS section include:

  • Engineering support, testing and evaluation of new and in-service combat systems.
  • Test and Trials support of Combat Systems and electronic equipment;
  • Support in the review of documentation and acceptance testing of naval equipment;
  • Evaluation of data recording requirements for weapon firings and review of firing data for in-depth analysis;
  • Engineering support for Naval Combat System Simulators;
  • Evaluation and testing of software and hardware installations, on site at naval test ranges;
  • Ship infrared signature measurement and analysis;
  • Testing and evaluation of fibre optic technology;
  • Engineering testing and evaluation shipboard systems for Electro-magnetic Interference (EMI) and Electro-magnetic Compliance (EMC);
  • Evaluation support for event reconstruction, modeling and simulation Operational Analysis, and Operational Test and evaluation of Naval Combat Systems;
  • Evaluation and Option Analysis for new Ships Systems as well as for the upgrade of existing systems for DND; and
  • Weapons tactics development.