Maritime Battle Center
Abstract
The mission of the Maritime Battle Center (MBC) is the development of new or improved warfighting capabilities through Sea Trial, the fleet's experimentation process. The MBC's program evaluates and validates emerging Navy concept of operations, doctrine and technologies through focused experimentation, rigorous analysis and assessment. Sea Trial experimentation, on the other hand, is dedicated to providing solutions to near term (within the Fiscal Year Defense Plan) war fighting gaps. The flag level Sea Trial Executive Steering Group (STESG prioritizes and approves the Sea Trial's annual execution plan. The MBC acts as the executive agent to conduct and coordinate experiments that are focused on both technological and non-technological solutions to warfighting gaps across all naval warfare areas. The MBC is involved in all facets of experimentation including planning, systems engineering and integration, execution, data collection, analysis, and assessment for fleet experiments, limited objective experiments, limited technical experiments, wargames, seminars and workshops. The MBC supports the early and sustained involvement of Joint Warfighters in refining the technologies and the tactics, techniques, and procedures needed in the Joint fight. This program historically does not meet established execution benchmarks. MBC experimentation differs from other Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) programs because it is based upon Fleet operational availability vice independently scheduled through warfighting labs. Because Fleet experimentation frequently must occur during the spring AND summer operational schedules, the overall RDT&E obligation/expenditure rates do not align with OSD practice. As a result, MBC's obligation rates do not begin to approach benchmark until the program nears the fiscal year's end while its expenditure rates generally do not approach benchmark until midway through the second year of its appropriation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 2357_0604707N_4_1319_PB_2011
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