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Condition-based maintenance would monitor status, analyze trends, detect faults and predict system degradation or failure. This would aid in scheduling the right preventive maintenance, as well as guide corrective maintenance and repair management. This would reduce manpower required for maintenance and repair aboard ship, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of off-ship support.

32 DD(X)s, primarily to support expeditionary strike groups. That number was reduced to 24, then 12, then seven. Under then Chief of Naval

Operations Gary Roughead, the Navy wanted to terminate the program. Congress eventually let the Navy resume building DDG 51s, but the ser- vice was directed to build three DDG 1000s.

USS Zumwalt today embodies the ideas ? rst proposed in SOCS almost three decades ago.

The ship has integrated electric propulsion (gen- erating 78 MW of power); smooth topside spaces with embedded antennas; a high degree of auto- mation and resilient electrical, communications and ? re main distribution.

Just as SOCS recommended, While Zumwalt has a bridge for conning, it is completely en- closed, and cameras and microphones provide sensory awareness for the watch team. The 80 vertical launch cells are located around the pe- riphery of the ship for survivability. The two 6-inch guns retract into a stealth housing. It’s quiet and stealthy. It has the radar cross section of a ? shing boat. Automation has reduced crew size from 300 on a 9,800 ton DDG 51 to 147 on a 15,800 ton DDG 1000.

(Photo: Steve DeCollibus) “In a way, SOCS is at sea,” Gunn said.

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