Integrated Combat Systems Test Division

ICSTD was built in 1978 for the purpose of integrating and certifying combat systems before deployment aboard Navy surface combatants. The 33,000 square foot landbased laboratory located in Point Loma provides a completely reconfigurable test bed containing the actual shipboard computer hardware and support equipment which allows ICSTD to replicate virtually every surface combatant in the US Navy. As the primary certification agent for non-AEGIS combat systems, ICSTD has long been the Navy’s “One- Stop-Shopping” for combat system integration.