The first ship in the San Antonio class of the U.S. Navy's amphibious ships, LPD-17 is designed as an expeditionary warfare support platform and serves as an operations base for elements of the Marine expeditionary forces, including troops, helicopters, VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) aircraft, AAAVs (Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicles), air-cushioned landing craft, and support equipment.

The development of LPD-17 transcends traditional ship-design methodologies by systematically blending the recommendations of designers, shipbuilders, operators, maintainers, trainers, policy makers, and requirement identifiers.

The result: a viable, combat-ready platform ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century!

In producing the LPD-17, a complicated and sophisticated warship, Raytheon is part of the Avondale Alliance full-service contractor team. Raytheon has responsibility as the Ship Systems Integrator for the unique SWAN (Shipboard Wide Area Network), all software development, the integrated product data environment, total ship information management, integrated ship electronics architecture, and life-cycle engineering support.

Raytheon has drawn upon its experience and proven expertise to implement the SWAN, integrate all government and contractor furnished equipment, and engineer a new CS (Combat System) for this cutting-edge expeditionary warship.