ASW Ships Command & Control System
ASW Ships Command & Control System (ASWSC&CS) was a Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) system for antisubmarine warfare. It was implemented only on the Voge, USS Koelsch (FF-1049) and the ASW aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18) in 1966. The ASWSC&CS allowed the development of improvements in antisubmarine warfare using digital computers, which were implemented in other ASW ship classes. The three ships operated together as a submarine hunter/killer group and gained the reputation as the best in the fleet. In 1969 Voge detected a submerged Soviet submarine and used hold-down tactics on the sub to the point that she forced the sub to surface. For this action Voge was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation.
UNIVAC was contracted to define the hardware and develop the software to incorporate ASW functions.
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