Norton Sound (AVM 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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K 1 COMBAT SYSTEMS MANAGER A The Combat Systems Manager is the , assistant to the Combat Systems Officer KCSOJ for internal and external informa- tion security programs, personnel secur- 2 I ity clearances, inport and at sea watch- l bill management, and whatever other re- P quirements arise. Q 2 l l l l LT. JAMES PINARE SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICER E i The Special Projects Officer was assigned to various special projects l V undertaken by the ship for R D T 8 E if in conjunction with the AEGIS systems, f i.e., OUTLAW SHARK, TOMAHAWK, and the ii' LINK-ll systems. ,s YE 1 r 1 'r 'i i LTJG y CHRISTOPHER CERVANTES 1 Tl I ,V fn. .

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CDMBAT SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT The Combat Systems Department performs the vital ship's functions of navigation, communications, contact reporting, intelligenceimonitoring, and aircraft control from the Combat Information Center ICICI. Security training and monitoring for the whole ship is provided by the armory personnel. The Combat Systems Department has been the heart of the at-sea weapons testing mission of the USS NORTON SOUND, which has been going on since 1949. Since 1973 the ship has been the primary sea trial test platform for the AEGIS combat system. At sea firings have continuously been conducted to ensure the highest operational suitability and availability of the newest weapon systems where they must perform, on the open ocean. The department has seen continual advances in testing from the tartar, terrier and talos program, to the MK 86 gun fire control system, to the AEGlS!Guided Missile Launching System CMK-265 firing early versions of Standard Missile. Most re- cently, the newest versions of Standard Missile in- creases range and capabilities and have been fired from the also ne Vertical Launching System QM -413 With the com letion of these anti-air warfare fir- ings, the effort transitioned to surface warfare nussile testing, and included firings of all current variants of the Tomahawk cruise missile. Success after success has been the trademark of firings con- ducted by the Combat Systems team. LCDR DANNY REDMON CS DEPARTMENT HEAD 8184-6186 WWW X if ' I I if My ,,,fAP'G ffiiiy , ,fyf ' Z!! 'ff ,f f ,,,,, uuy, A A LCDR CHERI CON ILOGUE CS DEPARTMENT HEAD 8l86-DECOM

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IG 'K H AEG1s MAINTENANCE DIVISION Navy engineers spent years developing what is now known as AEGIS. As with any umachine H it is TY, not just built and used, it has many years of devel- : opm nt and testing to insure that it is flawless be- fore being delivered to the real world. Hence came AEGIS Maintenance Division KAMJ on USS NORTGN SOUND. A complete new deckhouse was added to house all of the sophisticated equipment known as AEGIS. Over a 12 year period teams of civilians and naval per- sonnel were tasked to Hmake it work, and make it work better than any other weapon system the world has known.H The failures and successes of today's AEGIS fleet were first Norton Sound's. The years 8 uncountable manhours that it took have paid off. AEGIS works so well that there is no longer a need for Norton Sound as a test platform at sea. u AM DIVISION OFFICER LTJ G CRANDALL TOMAHAWK PROJECT AEGIS MAITENAN CE AEGIS MANAGEMENT FCCSISWBHUED Eccs MICEK DSC BRUNGARDT