OVERVIEW The Cooperative OUTBOARD Logistics Update (COBLU) system is an upgrade of the countermeasures detection and analysis system deployed on U.S. and British Royal Navy ships, which provides early warning and targeting of surface ships. The enhanced COBLU system features advanced methods of detecting, sorting, and tracking hostile emitters to provide intelligence indication and warning. BAE Systems supplies a shipboard-mounted rack assembly as part of the COBLU system, consisting of a rack with several commercial off-the-shelf and custom units slide mounted into the rack. The rack assemblies are mounted on isolators. BAE Systems was interested in understanding the performance of rack welds due to static, shock, and vibration loading and asked ATA to perform structural analysis

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