Naval Tactical Data System
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Naval Tactical Data System was a computerized information processing system developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships. It took repo
NTDS training in a mock-up of a shipboard CIC
Combat information center
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A combat information center, action information centre or operations room in UK and Commonwealth Navies, is a room in a warship or AWACS aircraft that functions as a tactical center and provides proce
Naval Tactical Data System
…map of the battlespace. This information could then be relayed back to the ships and to the weapons operators. Warships have compartments known as Combat Information Centers, or CICs, that collect, sort and then communicate all of the battlefield information known to that ship. Information about targets would be forwarded…
Plan position indicator (PPI) display showing Doppler radar weather data
A 1960s operations room aboard the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cavalier
CIC of USS Spruance, 1975.
CIC of USS Carl Vinson, 2001.