The Notional Ship Data Base.
Abstract
The ever-changing technological status and military capability of the potential enemies of the U.S. relative to the operational state of the art of Navy shipborne equipment frequently result in deficiencies which render units of the fleet incapable of successfully accomplishing their assigned objectives. Eventually the Navy translates these deficiencies into the equipment, tactics, and data needed to overcome the operational deficiencies. Subsequently, these needs are conveyed to the R&D community primarily via official high-level Navy documents. A meticulously comprehensive review of official sources of statements of needs has been conducted, and all statements of needs pertaining to ships or to shipborne equipments/systems have been extracted and stored for retrieval by an automatic data storage and retrieval system. Various characterization schemes have been applied to each of the needs statements so that needs addressing a common area of interest can be extracted automatically using simple computer programs. Similarly, all ongoing and planned R&D activity associated with ships or shipborne systems has been assembled, characterized by the same schemes as applied to the needs, and stored in a format compatible for retrieval by the same computer programs as used for the needs. Consequently, matched listings for a particular area of interest can be produced showing all recorded operational deficiencies relative to an area of interest and all R&D activity pertinent to the area which is expected to alleviate the deficiencies. The data bases are described and the components of each entry are defined.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA104247
Entities
People
- Harold J. Applegate