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At 95, Dick Van Dyke is still the consummate showman - and he s desperate to get back onstage
Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post
May 14, 2021
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1of3Dick Van Dyke at home in Malibu, Calif. A career that began in the 1940s has been interrupted by the pandemic. I really miss getting up in front of an audience, he says.Washington Post photo by Marvin JosephShow MoreShow Less
2of3 How in the hell did I get to where I am? How did I get to a Kennedy award? You know, I never trained or did anything. I just enjoyed myself, Dick Van Dyke says.Washington Post photo by Marvin JosephShow MoreShow Less
Sea Hunter MUSV, pictured on 20 April 2021 during UxS IBP 21. (Photo: USN/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Thomas Gooley)
Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 explores how unmanned capabilities can be incorporated in day-to-day USN operations.
The USN on 19 April commenced its first ever multi-domain exercise exploring manned and unmanned capabilities.
Led by the Pacific Fleet and executed by the 3rd Fleet, Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 (UxS IBP 21) ‘will generate warfighting advantages by integrating multi-domain manned and unmanned capabilities into the most challenging operational scenarios’, the USN stated.
It added: ‘This exercise will directly inform warfighters, warfare centres and developers to further incorporate unmanned capabilities in day-to-day Fleet operations and battle plans.’
COMBATSS-21 is a modular, scalable and open-architecture combat management system aboard USN Littoral Combat Ships
The latest contract modification for Lockheed includes hardware and provisioned items for the combat management system aboard LCS.
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems is providing hardware and provisioned items to support the Littoral Combat Ship Component Based Total Ship System – 21st Century (COMBATSS-21) and associated combat management system elements for the USN.
The company will perform work under the latest $72.18 million contract modification in Jarfalla, Sweden (84%) and Syracuse, New York (16%), for completion by May 2022.
COMBATSS-21 is not only in operation with LCS vessels. In August 2016, Lockheed Martin was awarded a five-year, $79 million contract to equip USN frigates with the open architecture system.