NAVSEA Tech Authority

Abstract

This project has been established to support NAVSEA Technical Authority through coordinated, collaborative, cross-platform systems development resulting in advanced capabilities across business lines through development adaptation and extension of processes, procedures, and tools necessary to develop and explore alternative surface ship and submarine force structures; advanced submarine, surface ship & unmanned surface vehicle concepts; interoperability; and development of systems level engineering criteria and options to support these force structures and advanced concepts as part of pre-acquisition mission needs analysis, mission area analysis, SCN, and R&D planning. The objective is the coordination of ongoing early-stage concept design and development efforts for cross-platform applicability to result in a more affordable, mission-capable, and interoperable surface ship and submarine forces including ships and submarines with reduced manning, increased ability to produce, reduced operating and support costs, and greater utilization of the latest technology. NAVSEA Tech Authority efforts under Project 3161, known as the Cross Platform Systems Development (CPSD) Program enhance ongoing efforts within Project 2196 and transition directly to early-stage ship design for Ship and Submarine Preliminary Design and Feasibility Studies and other Program Executive Office (PEO) ship and submarine design programs. While these efforts support concept exploration and mission needs assessment for potential future ship and submarine acquisition programs, they are not direct efforts for specific, authorized shipbuilding programs. This project is the only R&D effort (Government or commercial) that provides a coordinated, collaborative approach to the development of cross-platform naval ship, submarine, and weapon system design and engineering capabilities in the areas of design tools, criteria, and methods. This project also provides innovative solutions for current Fleet issues involving Technical Authority, such as current interoperability issues with new systems or platforms. Naval Ship System Engineering Tech Authority recapitalization and product development consolidates platform advanced concept development and design tool development in CPSD 1.0 (Platform Concept Advanced Development) and CPSD 2.0 (Platform Design and Certification Tools/Engineering and Tech Data Exchange Development); and aligned standards and requirements development for modularity and system / component commonality within CPSD 3.0 (Ship Systems Engineering/Modular Ship Systems Development). Program product areas support: platform-centric force architecture and concept development and tools (CPSD 1.0, CPSD 2.0), engineering products and system development (CPSD 3.0, CPSD 5.0), and system interoperability and mission capability for delivering ships and submarines (CPSDs 6.0, 8.0, 9.0). CPSD develops and transitions products to Technical Warrant Holder (TWH) community and develop prioritized plans and activities for future products from emerging cross platform technical requirements and associated capabilities.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 3161_0603563N_4_1319_PB_2012

Tags

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