Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services (CANES)

The U.S. Navy cannot afford to maintain the current legacy of Navy command, control, communications, computing and intelligence (C4I) information technology infrastructure. At an annual cost of more than $3 billion with a 10 percent escalation, the legacy requires a significant portion of the budget to maintain, yet fails to deliver the same network bandwidth capability to each sailor that is enjoyed by the average American teenager with a cell phone. Since each Navy C4I program office procured their own specific hardware, each ship houses redundant servers and workstations. Moreover, these legacy computers are nearing their end-of-life and must be upgraded. The drivers of cost reduction, network consolidation, server upgrades, server co-location and adding a service-oriented architecture layer for enterprise application integration for increased capability represent the Navy’s technical and business value proposition for the Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services (CANES) program.

The $1.5 billion CANES procurement program is designed to create a common Navy C4I infrastructure service provider (ISP) layer for all of the U.S. Navy’s existing ships. CANES comprises a common computing environment (CCE) and cross domain solution (CDS) component, combined with other systems hosting and systems management software. This solution will be used as an afloat internet to support the Navy’s C4I applications.

BAE Systems is currently pursuing the CANES program as a prime contractor with Raytheon, DRS Technologies, EDS and Sun Microsystems as tier 1 partners. The CANES RFP was released on April 2, 2009. The BAE Systems CANES Team is working towards a proposal submittal on June 3, with a CANES prototype demonstration scheduled for June 17-18.

As a CANES prime contractor, BAE Systems will design, develop and produce the CANES CCE/CDS solution and support the shipboard installations across the following ship classes: CG, CVN, DDG, LCC, LHA, LHD, LSD, MOC/MHQ and TTE over the next 10 years.

CANES is a highly qualified opportunity for BAE Systems. It leverages the company's more than 20 years of Navy C4I domain experiences and expertise with delivering ISP solutions for intelligence community customers. The program requires a large San Diego footprint, which led to the stand-up of the Liberty Station facility. BAE Systems is well-positioned to prime CANES as a mission capability integrator.