Dennis Hollingsworth

C.I.C. to Yam Span

Apropos of periodic references to my early years as a sailor (7th Fleet, USS Truxtun CGN-35) working in the Combat Information Center, we have some news about the evolution of the kind of work environment that has to gather an avalanche of information, digest it and act on it. We see it in NASA, the stock exchange, news rooms, and increasingly -if abstractedly and in smaller scale- in our own homes and workplaces.

The Navy's newest warship is powered by Linux
The USS Zumwalt will be a floating data center--armed with missiles and robot guns.
...the operations center of the Zumwalt will have more in common with the fictional starship USS Enterprise's bridge than it does with the combat information centers of the ships I went to sea on. Every console on the Zumwalt will be equipped with touch screens and software capable of taking on the needs of any operator on duty, and big screens on the forward bulkhead will display tactical plots of sea, air, and land.

Of course, I am automatically compelled to jam in a correlation to art, the Yam adventures of yore...

Posted by Dennis at October 19, 2013 10:09 AM