Determining Surface Combatant Characteristics Requirements Through A Mission Effectiveness Analysis Framework

Abstract

Ship performance characteristics, such as max-sustained speed, acceleration, and maneuverability are generally pre-determined as a platform requirement based on precedents. However, these pre-determined performance characteristics have far reaching impacts on the size, logistics, manning, and cost of the ship platform. Instead of designing to pre-defined platform performance requirements, ship performance characteristics should be determined based on fulfilling mission objectives. This research evaluates the viability to effectively determine if the ship characteristic requirements can be quantified by using Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Battle Engagement Model (NABEM) an agent-based simulation tool developed by Naval Sea Systems Command. In particular, we study two tactical situations by varying three platform characteristics maximum speed, acceleration, and turning diameter and determine how these platform characteristics affect mission performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA474051

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey A. Koleser

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Aircrafts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Error Analysis
  • Experimental Design
  • Operations Research
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.