CVN 21 LFT&E

Abstract

This project encompasses Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) efforts for the CVN78 Class. Title 10, US Code, Section 2366, CVN 21 Operational Requirements Document (ORD) and the CVN 21 Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), prescribe requirements for LFT&E. The purpose of LFT&E is to evaluate weapons and weapons systems in a realistic combat environment and to identify any mission threatening vulnerabilities early in the development process when there is time to take corrective action. The CVN 21 LFT&E Management Plan details the efforts, through testing and engineering analyses, to address potential design vulnerabilities. The unit cost of the CVN 78 Class and its shipboard systems preclude consideration of destructive testing of a full-up CVN 78 Class hull with threats of the type that might be expected in combat. Consequently, the Navy must rely on other means to determine that CVN 78 Class ships will be able to survive and carry out its missions in the face of the threats identified in the CVN 21 System Threat Assessment Report. The Vulnerability Assessment Report (VAR) is the key document that addresses these issues for the CVN 78 LFT&E Program. The LFT&E strategy for the CVN78 Class accounts for the uncertainty in its design features. The strategy assumes that as the program progresses through the stages of ship design, prior to the award of the construction contract, descriptive detail of CVN78 will increase and so will the ability to evaluate its survivability. The VAR 3 was officially completed in the summer of 2007. The VAR 3 Update is scheduled to be completed in FY 12 and will incorporate the CVN 78 design drawings.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 4007_0604567N_5_1319_PB_2011

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• Fire Suppression Systems Design.
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
• Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.