# Smart Ship **Entity class:** Program **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition Smart Ship was a U.S. Navy effort to use commercial computing and automation aboard warships to reduce workload and integrate ship systems. ## Chronological Proximity Its 1990s deployment overlapped the rise of [[wiki/Network-Centric Warfare|network-centric warfare]] and culminated in the 1997 USS Yorktown software casualty. ## Relational Proximity The program placed commercial Windows NT systems inside naval operations, creating the environment remembered as [[wiki/Windows for Warships|Windows for Warships]]. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].