LPD-17 Class Systems Integration

Abstract

The LPD 17 Class ships are functional replacements for 41 ships of four classes of amphibious ships. These new ships embark, transport, and land elements of Marine landing forces in an assault by helicopters, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles. Tactics, techniques, and tools for naval expeditionary warfare continue to evolve. The LPD 17 Class configuration must continue to adapt to this evolutionary process, because these ships are expected to be in service until almost 2050. The LPD 17 design includes system configurations that reduce operating and support costs and facilitate operational performance improvements. System engineering and integration efforts that began in FY97 will develop further reductions in life cycle costs and will integrate performance upgrades in a rapid, affordable manner. Possible research and development investigations include improvements in Hull, Mechanical and Electrical systems, advanced sensors, advanced computers, advanced command and control software, advanced information system technologies, and ship based logistics support. Cost reduction and improved performance will be accomplished through sustained modeling and simulation efforts, resolutions of equipment obsolescence issues, prototype development, continued personnel reduction efforts, system performance tradeoff evaluations, and naval expeditionary warfare system engineering. Feedback from the Fleet for integrating system configurations will be accomplished through Naval Surface Warfare Centers (Philadelphia, Dahlgren, Port Hueneme, Panama City). These efforts will result in well defined specifications and drawings in system in system integration design packages that provide technical baseline for follow on ship procurements.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0604311N_5_1319_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2015 funding request reflects a reduction of $0.013 million for SBIR transfer. FY 2017 funding request reflects reductions of $0.150 million to account for the availability of prior year balances, $0.013 million for rates/miscellaneous adjustments, and $0.024 million for the Department of the Navy to comply with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Additive Manufacturing
• Amphibious Ships
• Amphibious Vehicles
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Cost Reductions
• Costs
• Engineering
• Expeditionary Warfare
• Information Systems
• Landing Craft
• Landing Forces
• Life Cycle Costs
• Logistics Support
• Navy
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
• Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control