Systems Architecting Approach to Towing and Salvage Ship Recapitalization

Abstract

Four salvage ships and four ocean-going towing ships are maintained and operated by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) for the U.S. Navy. In 2019, the first T-ATF ships will reach the end of their 40-year life expectancy. The program manager for these vessels has a set of top-level performance characteristics that are deemed as desirable requirements for a new ship class, encapsulating both legacy ship class capabilities. The DoD has shifted defense planning from the specific service requirements generated system (RGS) acquisition to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) approach that focuses more on how adversaries fight rather than whom they are fighting. This thesis explores how to use systems architecting to incorporate the capabilities derived from strategic guidance into a Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF) product. The design tool, CORE, is used to explain the architecting methodology and produce DODAF v1.5 system models for decision making and acquisition requirement generation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA483590

Entities

People

  • George T. Southworth

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Construction
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Guidance
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Naval Architecture
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Ship Design
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design