Ship Concept Advanced Design

Abstract

The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $1.185 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Explore alternative surface and expeditionary ship force structures (encompassing amphibious warfare), advanced surface ship and unmanned surface vehicles concepts, and new and emerging technical architectures and solutions in support of pre-acquisition mission needs analysis, mission area analysis and planning, and systems engineering. The objective is a more affordable, mission capable surface ship force including increased ship production capability; ships with reduced manning, reduced operating and support costs, and greater utilization of the latest technology. The program directly supports the Navy Shipbuilding Plan and NAVSEA Technical Authority with state-of-the-art design tools and methods that develop technical options and requirements for surface ship force structure, ship & unmanned vehicle concepts, advanced material and manufacturing efforts, and improved engineering prototypes and solutions for ships that may become part of the shipbuilding plan. Project 2196 - This project provides the foundation for an affordable and mission capable surface ship force. It also supports the next step in the development of a transformed naval force by accomplishing the pre-milestone A (especially pre-concept decision) efforts for all potential surface ships. These efforts are the required first step in the integration of total ship systems, including combat systems, weapons systems and Hull, Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E) systems. Inadequate early planning and ship concept formulation can result in down-stream design, construction and operational problems. A subtler and severely negative impact of neglecting this early effort is that the "best" concepts and technologies may never even be considered and the greatest potential ship design advances never realized. Designs and technologies must consider how to meet the threat. This project supports this requirement. This project funds concept development engineering, mission effectiveness analysis, force architecture analysis, and other analyses for formulation of future surface ship force structure along with development of the tools required to accomplish these efforts. 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 are also funded in this project. This project: (1) Develops alternative surface ship force structure concepts including ships and unmanned vehicles. (2) Evaluates the mission capability effectiveness and costs for these alternative surface fleet architectures. (3) Performs fleet war fighting/mission effectiveness assessment studies. (4) Identifies future surface ship requirements and characteristics necessary to meet future threats and support mission needs. (5) Investigates new affordable ship concepts and evaluates technologies necessary to support these concepts. (6) Provides design methods and automated design tools to develop and evaluate ship concepts. (7) Supports development of Initial Capabilities Documents (ICD) and analogous early requirements documents for future ships. These efforts are done to support analysis; mission needs development and technology assessment in support of future fleet concepts and potential ship acquisition programs. These efforts are fundamental to the Navy's formulation of the future fleet requirements. These efforts support and maintain naval ship design and engineering capabilities in the design phase of developing concept design tools, criteria and methods. Project 3161 - This project is the only R&D effort that provides a coordinated approach to the development of cross platform ship and weapon system designs and technologies 'common' to multiple ships and systems. This project directly informs technical standards for design, construction, certification and operation and provides an avenue for innovative solutions and technologies to compete with legacy product requirements and specifications. This project conducts risk reduction of alternative technical architectures, designs and technology solutions that meet Fleet operational and technical requirements at lower cost, and develops engineering capabilities in the areas of design tools, criteria and methods. This project funds a prioritized portfolio of time-sensitive initiatives through the Cross Platform Systems Development (CPSD) program, supporting NAVSEA Technical Authority and associated risk reduction activity. The areas of exploration for CPSD include Ship Technology Improvements, Fleet Maintenance and Life Cycle Cost Reduction, Advanced Manufacturing and Material Technology, Additive Manufacturing, Digital Framework/Electromagnetic Environment and Development and Unmanned Systems and Cyber security. The research products developed by this project directly support and influence both in-service fleet requirements and future acquisition programs by providing a range of technically acceptable alternatives and evaluation of emerging technologies. The prototypes, standards/specs, tools and processes and other products developed in this project focus on technical requirements and technologies applicable to multiple ship classes or systems. Products from this project transition directly to early-stage ship design for Ship Preliminary Design and Feasibility Studies, Program Executive Office (PEO) ship acquisition programs, and Systems Engineering Technical Authority (SETA) requirements documentation. Tasks within this project include R&D efforts focused on increasing sustainment technologies and improving performance at reduced cost for 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. FY2016 and prior years (FY2014 and earlier) efforts were financed under the National Defense Sealift Fund (NDSF) BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development. FY2015, FY2017, and FY2019-FY2024 efforts are financed under this RDT&E,N program element and project (3376). Project 4037 - This project supports Common Hull Auxiliary Multi-Mission Platform (CHAMP)Design and Total Ship Integration. The CHAMP concept leverages a new approach to requirements generation and shipbuilding to replace aging mission specific designs with a common hull to reduce life cycle costs, leverage tailored payloads, and stabilize the industrial base. Identified missions include: sealift, aviation intermediate maintenance support, medical services, command & control, and submarine tending. Funding will inform requirements definition, early industry engagement and follow-on assessment across CHAMP mission functionality. Project 9999 (Congressional Add)- Continues efforts previously financed under the National Defense Sealift Fund (NDSF) BA 04 Project 3116 Strategic Sealift Research and Development (FY14 and prior) and RDT&E,N BA04, Project 3376 Strategic Sealift (FY2015 and FY2017)to develop new concepts and technologies which can be applied to or will enable future strategic sealift, and Seabasing systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0603563N_4_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $1.185 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. The FY 2019 funding was reduced by 14.816 million for Future Surface Combatant Studies Excess Growth. (Proj 2196). The FY 2018 funding was reduced by $19.000 million Congressional adjustment for Future Surface Combatant Studies Early to Need (Proj 2196). The FY 2018 funding was increased by $6.425 million Congressional adjustment for Strategic Sealift Research and Development - Transfer from NDSF (Proj 9999).
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Cargo Handling
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Deployment
  • Electromagnetic Environments
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Logistics
  • Product Development
  • Swarming Technologies
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber

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