DDG(X) Concept Development
Abstract
The Navy's DDG(X) program (formerly known as Large Surface Combatant or LSC) is the Navy's Future Guided Missile Destroyer ship acquisition program to follow the DDG 51 class that is essential to field capabilities required for the future fight as validated by the Future Surface Combatant Force (FSCF) ICD, FSCF AoA, and Future Naval Force Study (FNFS). DDG(X) will integrate non-developmental systems into a new hull design that incorporates platform flexibility and the space, weight, power and cooling (SWAP-C) to meet future combatant force capability/system requirements that are not achievable without the new hull design. The DDG(X) platform will have the flexibility to rapidly and affordably upgrade to future warfighting systems when they become available as well as have improved range and fuel efficiency for increased operational flexibility and decreased demand on the logistics force. DDG(X) will provide an Integrated Power System with flexibility to enable fielding of high demand electric weapons, sensor systems and computing resources. To decouple ship development risk from technology risk, accommodation of additional future capabilities will be pre-planned; these future capabilities may include: missile launchers capable of larger weapons to exceed adversary capabilities, high power lasers, or other systems that can be efficiently incorporated when developed and demonstrated. The DDG(X) strategy includes a robust Digital Engineering approach to provide a framework around which the program can achieve efficiencies throughout its life cycle. The use of integrated digital tools and models within a structured, configuration managed environment will drive process efficiency to capture and authenticate necessary data to successfully accomplish design, construction, maintenance, modernization, operations and sustainment of DDG(X). The DDG(X) program is focused on identifying and mitigating the risk of critical system technologies sufficiently prior to Milestone B. Through a combination of analysis, modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical scale-model prototyping, the DDG(X) hull form will be designed to meet the Navy's Top Level Requirements (TLRs) for the class, and its critical risks will be mitigated or retired. DDG(X) will use a four phased risk reduction process for IPS that provides the Navy with a relevant means to reduce system risk at the optimum time through the use of persistent digital engineering and land based test best practices to ensure successful ship activation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 0411_0603564N_4_1319_PB_2022
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