Naval Facilities System

Abstract

In accordance with the National Defense Strategy (NDS) of 2018, A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority 2.0 and the NAVFAC Strategic Design 2.0 Guidance, this program provides the Navy with new engineering capabilities that are required to overcome specific performance limitations of Naval shore facilities while reducing the cost of sustaining the Naval shore infrastructure and increasing resiliency. The program focuses available RDT&E resources on satisfying facility requirements where the Navy is a major stakeholder or where there are no tested validated Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solutions available, and a timely solution will not emerge without a Navy sponsored demonstration and validation. The program completes the development and validation of facility technologies originating in Navy science and technology programs, plus a variety of other sources that includes the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This program introduces the idea of resilient facilities and infrastructure thru hardening, rapid assessment, and recovery. The validated technologies will be implemented in the Navy's Military Construction (MILCON) and Facilities Sustainment Restoration and Modernization Programs (FSRM). The Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act of 2009 laid down very specific guidelines for the correction of corrosion deficiencies in DoD shore facilities which is estimated to be $1.9B (DOD Annual Cost of Corrosion for the Department of Defense Facilities and Infrastructure July 2010). Project 0995 addresses two Navy facilities requirements: 1) waterfront facilities repair, upgrade and service life extension; and, 2) validation testing/performance monitoring of critical facilities (such as dry docks, piers, runways, magazines, etc.), testing and evaluation of the performance of alternative materials, and surfacing concepts, and, methods and corrosion technologies to reduce the cost of Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (SRM). Waterfront facilities, repair, upgrade and service life extension: Improved resilience of our installations (employing key technology focus areas defined in the NDS) will enable readiness and fleet lethality. An urgent requirement exists for early identification of strategies and solution recommendations for sea level rise at Naval Facilities, and especially nuclear capable waterfront facilities. Recent weather patterns have heightened anxiety levels on perceived huge risks to Navy waterfront facilities. The sub-project will provide analysis and solution recommendations for facilities affected by sea level rise. Approximately 75% of the Navy's waterfront facilities are over 45 years old, but they were designed for a service life of 25 years. The over aged reinforced concrete requires costly and repetitive repairs. Besides providing more pier side ship maintenance and thus reduce dry dock costs, these piers must be strengthened to support concentrated crane loads up to 140 tons when piers were originally not designed for concentrated loads. Piers were previously designed to service one, or possibly two, specific ship classes. Berthing flexibility is now limited by mooring and utility arrangements. This sub-project addresses new material design and retrofit methods, which extends the service life of existing waterfront facilities by an additional 15 years, or longer. The project also addresses updating the mission-based service, environmental, and protection loading requirements imposed by changes in platforms, operations and threats. Other initiatives include leveraging Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology to provide for enhanced facilities management processes and waterfront utilities service enhancements using models to achieve flexible berthing arrangements consistent with current and future platform mooring configurations and hotel service requirements including Facilities and Infrastructure Integrated Product Support for Acquisition Category (ACAT) Programs. Technologies to reduce the cost of Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (SRM): Technologies to reduce the cost of SRM issues of high operational significance are addressed on a priority basis. The Navy's portion of corrosion deficiencies at DoD shore facilities is estimated to be $433M (DOD Annual Cost of Corrosion for the Department of Defense Facilities and Infrastructure July 2010). This effort will demonstrate and validate the cost and reliability of advanced corrosion technologies in order to ensure their acceptance and implementation.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0995_0603725N_4_1319_PB_2024

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