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Primarily the former (both the yet to be properly purged mania for COTS and associated issues with supply chain security & reliability even pre-Covid 19 have been major pains once again, no surprise) though the latter probably hasn't helped with regards as to the Burkes. Which is quite ironic given that when the planning for Baseline 9 first began back in the day it was initially intended that only the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers would be receiving it. At the time the USN were also planning to accelerate the retirement without replacement of their remaining cruisers as part of the infamous 'systems not platforms' dogma. (Fortunately Congress has mostly blocked this lemming drive to date, though the future is not looking very promising at the moment.) Another problem is that the much touted system virtualisation has been more than a bit of a disaster. Overall, the Aegis Open Architecture, of which Baseline 9 is supposed to be a major milestone, has never really lived up to its proponents promises. Indeed it can be argued that it has only ultimately served to severely undermine the Aegis system, with potentially dire consequences for the United States and its allies.On a related note, here is yet another attempt by the United States Navy at rejigging the software side of things: https://news.usni.org/2021/04/12/navy-software-factory-the-forge-wants-to-reshape-how-ships-get-upgradedReading between the lines they are still trying to salvage the virtualisation drive.
Primarily the former (both the yet to be properly purged mania for COTS and associated issues with supply chain security & reliability even pre-Covid 19 have been major pains once again, no surprise) though the latter probably hasn't helped with regards as to the Burkes. Which is quite ironic given that when the planning for Baseline 9 first began back in the day it was initially intended that only the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers would be receiving it. At the time the USN were also planning to accelerate the retirement without replacement of their remaining cruisers as part of the infamous 'systems not platforms' dogma. (Fortunately Congress has mostly blocked this lemming drive to date, though the future is not looking very promising at the moment.) Another problem is that the much touted system virtualisation has been more than a bit of a disaster. Overall, the Aegis Open Architecture, of which Baseline 9 is supposed to be a major milestone, has never really lived up to its proponents promises. Indeed it can be argued that it has only ultimately served to severely undermine the Aegis system, with potentially dire consequences for the United States and its allies.
On a related note, here is yet another attempt by the United States Navy at rejigging the software side of things:
https://news.usni.org/2021/04/12/navy-software-factory-the-forge-wants-to-reshape-how-ships-get-upgraded
Reading between the lines they are still trying to salvage the virtualisation drive.
