Naval Tactical Data System
Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) 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 reports from multiple sensors on different ships and collated it to produce a single unified map of the battlespace. This information could then be relayed back to the ships and to the weapons operators.
NTDS training in a mock-up of a shipboard CIC
Combat information center
A combat information center (CIC) or action information centre (AIC) is a room in a warship or AWACS aircraft that functions as a tactical center and provides processed information for command and control of the near battlespace or area of operations. Within other military commands, rooms serving similar functions are known as command centers.
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.