Sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) are testing and operating their systems at full capacity. The Automatic Data Processing (ADP) department is now able to fully analyze the new updates and its systems capability with the ship on its way back to a fully operational state.

ADP is responsible for the network infrastructure that supports all functioning applications throughout Ike. They began updates in 2017 and have continued to upgrade it while in the yards and even while at sea.

“We support everything on the ship,” said Chief Information Systems Technician Star Sherry, CS3’s leading chief petty officer. “Whether it’s ordering shipments of food, doing maintenance, shooting our weapons system or tracking the enemy, ADP plays a role in everything.”

ADP has been testing their upgrades during their maintenance phase, however they can now see the full capabilities while Ike is underway.

“We are now just really testing the full power of these systems with us being out to sea and having the air wing onboard,” said Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Angel Gonzaguealvarez, an information systems watch officer. “We went from the normal 3,000 users to over 4,000 users on our Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Service (CANES) every day. It’s easy for one Sailor to log on to a system and have it work; it’s a lot harder for 5,000 Sailors to do it.”

With ADP systems being so essential to the ships overall performance they have to be monitored closely and running at its full potential to meet their goal.

“We are able to monitor our systems on screens that can tell us different things, like when we will run out of drive space or at what time of day things may be running at different speeds,” said Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Justin Koellner, an information systems watch officer. “If we can continue to have our systems up 99 percent of the time, like we have been, then we are meeting our goal.”

“In order for our systems to pass our test they have to be able to do simple daily tasks,” said Sherry. “Whether that be logging in, adding a track or doing a shutdown without losing information, it’s essential that our system be able to complete these normal tasks, while also being ready to operate our secure networks and weapons systems.”

“Information warfare is the future,” said Sherry. “We have to make sure our systems are better and more capable than ever before.”

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