McKean Defense Group's vast experience gives us an in-depth understanding of all phases of HM&E, Weapons, and C4I systems life cycle. Our engineers support these individual disciplines and the total ship starting with traditional acquisition engineering and continuing through all phases of system development and life cycle support. We provide engineering support, technical skilled labor, and logistics support to clients such as NSWCCD-SSES for deploying enabling technologies which improve availability, increase reliability, and decrease maintenance and workload requirements for machinery systems and components on naval ships. McKean provided analytical support to new system installations, alterations, and modifications to a variety of hull, mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems. Our efforts require the skilled support of:
- Alteration teams to install and test the enabling technologies into existing platforms.
- Engineering support to integrate enabling technologies into existing ship systems.
- Material support to install and maintain enabling technologies.
- Quality assurance programs for the proper installation, engineering, and logistics support of enabling technologies being introduced into existing platforms.
McKean's employees have been on the leading edge of new initiatives such as Distance Support with in the Navy. They fully understand both the hardware infrastructure requirements and the various process and application implications to support optimum manned ships such as the Littoral Combatant Ship (LCS).
McKean Defense Group's engineers and technicians have supported the concept development and requirement analysis from both the systems commands perspective as well as the fleet perspective. Our engineers are involved in the requirements definition for shipboard maintenance and training requirements due to the introduction of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) systems on ships.
McKean Defense Group's engineers and technicians support the system design, engineering and integration of all ship HM&E, weapon and C4I systems. Our managers and engineers also support the acquisition managers in Naval Sea Systems Command and provide a fleet perspective for system design and integration. McKean Defense Group's supports our customers with world class Logistics Engineering and Maintenance support. With reduced budgets, proper logistics planning and execution becomes more important than ever in system development and support.
Our support spans the spectrum from planning yard support, to modernization planning and execution, installation support, training design and delivery and technical documentation development and support. Our technicians provide the Navy with technical assistance, equipment assessment, and direct fleet support for maintenance and modernization of a wide variety of shipboard components and systems.