Seven years after Cole, Navy fields COTS-based SPS

The U.S. Navy said last week that it will field the first Shipboard Protection System (SPS) aboard a naval surface combatant this month, spearheading a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ship-defense response to the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2000. SPS Block 1 will be installed on an...

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