American fleet will lead management system destroyers to the original state. War Department was forced to take this step in view of the categorical failure of seafarers to use them instead of the usual levers of sensory mechanisms.
Levers be
Return of the "old order" must occur within 18 – 24 months. Not the least role in this decision played a collision USS John S. McCain with a merchant vessel. Investigation into the incident, Navy conducted, revealed, that the sensor system is complex to learn and sailors are poorly trained to use it.
After this command has instructed to study in this cut general state of affairs in the Navy. According to the results revealed the ugly picture, It seems premature failure of the motor control levers.
We really saw the light […] We really made overly complicated control system, touch-screen under the glass and all such.
– said Bill Galinis, Head of the organization, engaged in service warships.
Getting lost on the bridge
In his words, bridge has become a "mish-mash of styles»: there is not any regulatory compliance, Fleet requirements to shipbuilders due to their willingness to implement as much as possible of new technologies. Unsuited device systems has led to confusion among sailors, which is constantly being moved with a pennant on the pennant.
They [sailors] told, just give us leverage.
– said Galinis.
As explained by John Pope, in charge of the ship's communication system, Management and Monitoring (Office C4I), the bridge is a laptop, which controls the receiver Automatic identification system (AIS). In his words, after the collision destroyers (as "McCain", and "Fitzgerald") sailors complained about the work with a laptop computer.
It is easy to go with a laptop on board, but how do you make sure, that it works correctly, set right, and the sailor can rely on him?
– said John Pope.
