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Back Quantifying the Military Value of an LHA Expanded Adaptive Force Package: AMERICA Class Surface Action Group (SAG)

Fiscal Year 2018
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Kline, Jeffery E.
Barreto, Jane F.
Appleget, Jeffrey A.
Paulo, Eugene P.
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary This research will quantify the offensive effectiveness of an Expanded Adaptive Force Package (EAFP) composed of an AMERICA class LHA equipped with F-35Bs, unmanned air and surface platforms, and various numbers of DDGs and LCS. In this proposal, offensive ASUW will be the focused mission area, however, future work will build on recently completed research quantifying the value of adding a LHA with F-35Bs to an escort group for defense of high value units. This work is directly related to concepts for employing CVLs in the U.S. fleet.
This is a coordinated cross campus, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational proposal that will include students from at least four curricula, two capstone projects, two theses, two capstone course projects, and seven faculty members from the Operations Research and Systems Engineering Departments. It will apply campaign analysis, simulation, set based design, wargaming, systems engineering, and advanced analytic techniques to develop and assess the AMERICA EAFP concept inside distributed maritime operations in a contested environment. Working in partnership with NSWCDD's modelers, it will build on previous research to enhance the agent-based model OSM-DL to include the AMERICA EAFP. This model will then be used to simulation thousands of ASUW tactical engagements with, and without, the AMERICA EAFP.
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