NAVSEA Tech Authority

Abstract

This project has been established to support the NAVSEA Tech Authority with the coordination of design and development efforts for cross-platform applicability to result in more affordable, mission-capable, and interoperable surface ship forces including ships that are less expensive to build and operate with reduced manning, reduced support costs, and greater utilization of emerging technology. NAVSEA Tech Authority efforts under Project Unit (PU) 3161, known as the Cross Platform Systems Development (CPSD) Program transition directly to early-stage ship design for Ship Preliminary Design and Feasibility Studies and other Program Executive Office (PEO) ship design programs. While these efforts support concept exploration and mission needs assessment for potential future ship acquisition programs, they also develop cross-program technology solutions and associated Technical Authority products. The CPSD efforts are not direct efforts for specific, authorized shipbuilding programs. This project is the only R&D effort that provides a coordinated, collaborative approach to the development of: cross-platform naval ship and weapon system design, as well as engineering capabilities in the areas of design tools, criteria, and methods. The CPSD project also provides innovative solutions for current Fleet issues involving Technical Authority, such as interoperability issues with new systems or platforms, or broad technology insertion topics. In addition, PU 3161 also includes Additive and Advanced Manufacturing Technology, which focuses heavily on naval ship-specific Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology and transition. Project Unit 3161 includes efforts of the Additive Manufacturing (AM) program. This program focuses on development and use of AM equipment for Naval applications in land-based and afloat applications including system performance requirements, shipboard integration requirements and considerations, material selection, design optimization, equipment and component certification, and digital engineering integration. Efforts also include considerations of AM applicability across a wide-variety of potential applications ensuring AM manufactured components can meet mission requirements. In FY 2019, all CPSD Pillars were re-baselined to better address CNO and NAVSEA Chief Engineer (SEA05) technical priorities and comprised of the following functional areas, with the exception of Cyber Security (CPSD F) which was moved to an individual project starting in FY 2021. CPSD A - Ship Technology Improvements CPSD B - Fleet Maintenance and Life Cycle Cost Reduction CPSD C - Additive and Advanced Manufacturing Technology CPSD D - Digital Framework/Electromagnetic Environment and Development CPSD E - Unmanned Systems In FY 2023, CPSD is re-baselining to improve efficient and resilient alignment to CNO and NAVSEA Chief Engineer (SEA05) technical requirements and priorities. CPSD maintains the use of established functional areas for scope prioritization and portfolio diversification; however, the use of pillars for funding allocation has hindered responsiveness and agility. New in FY 2023, CPSD established the project focusing on the functional area "Support of Technical Authority."

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
3161_0603563N_4_1319_PB_2023

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Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber

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