Ship Concept Advanced Design

Abstract

Explore alternative surface ship force structures, advanced surface ship and unmanned surface vehicles concepts, and the potential technologies for these force structures and advanced concepts in support of pre-acquisition mission needs analysis, mission area analysis, and planning. The objective is a more affordable, mission capable surface ship force including increased ship production capability; ships with reduce manning, reduced operating and support costs, and greater utilization of the latest technology. The program directly supports the Navy Shipbuilding Plan with state-of-the-art design tools and methods for surface ship force structure alternative studies, ship & unmanned vehicle concept studies, and the actual conduct of surface ship force structure alternative studies and advanced design concept studies for the ships that may become part of the shipbuilding plan. Project 2196 - This project funds concept development engineering, mission effectiveness analysis, and other analyses for formulation of future surface ship force structure along with development of the tools to accomplish these efforts. Efforts include advanced ship concept studies, ship and ship systems technology assessments, and the development and upgrade of ship concept design and engineering tools, methods, and criteria. Project 3161 - This project funds a prioritized portfolio of time-sensitive initiatives through integrated efforts in Cross Platform Systems Development (CPSD), furthering Sea Enterprise through the development of support elements meeting relevant needs of the warfare community. The areas of exploration for CPSD include surface ship concept advanced development, next generation unmanned surface vehicle, high speed ships, tool integration and technical data exchange, cybersecurity, embedded interoperability engineering, and mission capability systems engineering. The research products developed by this project directly support and influence both immediate fleet requirements and future acquisition programs by providing a range of technically acceptable alternatives and evaluation of emerging technologies. In particular, tasks within this project continue to directly support interoperability testing and certification for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and other platforms in deploying battle groups, development and certification of Operator Guidance tools for surface combatants (CG 47, DDG 51, DDG 1000), Total Ownership Cost (TOC) pilot programs, future flexible and modular warship analyses, and development of specifications and processes to reduce production costs of platforms. Tasks within this project continue to directly support the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) execution for multiple ship classes including, LCS, JHSV, and DDG 1000 reducing Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) costs, furthered validation of hydrodynamic simulation tool supporting DDG 1000 Hull Form Plan (HFP), have increased technology readiness level for aluminum combatants, developed tools to execute the CG 47 Cracking Task Force recommendations, increased situational awareness for deploying strike groups. This project supports NAVSEA's core mission and allows for improved performance and reduced cost of current and future naval platforms. Project 3376 - Strategic Sealift Research and Development - Develops new concepts and technologies which can be applied to or will enable future strategic sealift, and Seabasing systems. The technologies include ship configuration concepts, equipment to increase cargo handling and cargo loading/unloading rates (including commercial and merchant ship systems), improved man/machine interfaces, improved structural configurations and materials, and Logistics-Over-the-Shore (LOTS) equipment and system improvements. FY 2014 and earlier efforts were funded under NDSF BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development. Effort moves back to NDSF BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development in FY 16. Note: NDSF BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development amounts: FY 2014: $6.288M

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0603563N_4_1319_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: Programmatic: Project 3161: The CPSD Program was adjusted based on reduced level of effort. Added additional funding to support increased cybersecurity technologies for application to emerging shipboard and combat system control system architectures and mitigate vulnerabilities across Platform IT (PIT) capabilities. Financial: Moved project 3376 back to NDSF BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development in FY 16.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Cargo Handling
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Engineering
• Force Structure
• Littoral Combat Ships
• Navy
• Ship Design
• Ships
• Systems Engineering
• Technology Assessment
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Surface Vehicles
• Unmanned Vehicles
• Uss Zumwalt
• Vehicles
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Marine Hydrodynamics
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Cyber