Enabling Carrier Strike Group Command, Control, and Combat Operations
Customer: U.S. Navy
Mission Context
U.S. aircraft carriers are the most powerful force-projection platforms in the world. Their effectiveness depends on flawless flight operations, real-time command and control, integrated intelligence, and secure collaboration across air, surface, subsurface, and information warfare domains.
From the flight deck to the strike group command spaces, Chugach designs, builds, installs, and sustains the systems that allow carrier strike groups to fight as a single, coordinated combat force – anywhere in the world, in all conditions.
Mission Environment
Carrier operations demand absolute reliability. Aircraft must recover safely at sea in all weather. Strike group commanders must maintain continuous situational awareness across multiple warfare areas. Air wing commanders must coordinate dozens of aircraft and squadrons during complex strike missions. Intelligence must be shared, visualized, and acted upon in real time.
Any failure in communications, command spaces, or collaboration systems directly degrades combat effectiveness, increases risk to aircrew, and threatens mission success. That is why the U.S. Navy trusts Chugach to perform this mission-critical work on every carrier in the fleet.
Chugach Support
Chugach designs, builds, installs, and sustains the mission-critical systems that enable aircraft carrier flight operations, strike execution, and command decision-making. Our support spans the full carrier strike group—from safe aircraft recovery to real-time battlespace management.
Chugach manufactures the fleet-wide Landing Signal Officer (LSO) handset used during every fixed-wing carrier recovery, enabling direct pilot communication in all weather conditions. We deliver and sustain the Tactical Flag Command Center, Carrier Air Wing Commander command-and-control systems, Information Warfare Commander situational awareness tools, and Flag briefing and analysis spaces where senior leaders plan and direct operations.
We also design and maintain squadron ready room collaborative briefing systems that enable coordinated strike planning, force protection camera systems that enhance ship security, shipboard tactical networks and video distribution systems, and morale systems that sustain crew endurance during deployments.
These systems form the backbone of carrier strike group operations—supporting safe flight operations, integrated command and control, and sustained combat effectiveness at sea.
Execution:
Chugach executes this work across the full lifecycle—engineering, integration, installation, commissioning, deployed support, and sustainment. Teams provide both on-site and remote support to deployed forces, responding rapidly to emergent issues and ensuring systems remain operational throughout deployments.
This embedded, hands-on approach ensures carrier strike groups retain full command-and-control capability from pre-deployment workups through combat operations.
Results and Warfighting Impact
Safe recovery of fixed-wing aircraft in all weather conditions
Continuous strike group command and control across all warfare domains
Integrated air wing planning and execution for complex strike missions
Real-time intelligence visualization and decision-making for senior commanders
Enhanced force protection and survivability in port and underway
Sustained combat effectiveness across extended deployments
These systems directly enable force projection, reduce operational risk, and ensure carrier strike groups can fight, adapt, and prevail.
Mission Value
Chugach does not provide peripheral support—we build and sustain the systems at the core of carrier strike group combat operations. From the moment an aircraft recovers aboard the carrier to the moment a strike is planned, briefed, executed, and assessed, Chugach-enabled systems are in use.
This is mission-critical work that directly supports the Department of War’s priorities: command dominance, operational control, survivability, and decisive combat power at sea.