General ship computing environment: the concept of its formation and infrastructure

Stalnov Alexey Nikolaevich

A warship is a complex weapon system equipped with various and complex separate systems such as a sensor system, a strike system, a combat system, and a communications system on a single platform. If the various systems installed on a ship are classified in terms of control, they can be broadly categorized into a combat system, a C4I (command, control, communications and reconnaissance) system, and other systems that use computing resources. However, due to the rapid technological development of the weapon system, threats are diversified, response times are reduced, and the number of crew members decreases as the population and budget decrease. In such a situation, in order to complete the mission, it is necessary to quickly identify various information and make decisions, and all assets and subsystems of consequences must be ready for immediate use. To this end, each country's naval forces are expanding automation and deploying ship dispatchers to control and monitor all control systems needed to carry out a mission in one location, as well as expanding the integration of control systems.

Keywords: integrated control systems, total ship computing environment, ship information systems, system integration layers, open architecture, network of networks, Interconnect Fabric, infrastructure, network communications technology, fault tolerance, fault management.