Fiscal Year	2023
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Paulo, Eugene P.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	This project supports the Marines operating from Expeditionary Advanced Bases (EAB) as Stand-in-Forces (SIF) contributing to forward sensing and command and control, gaining and maintaining custody of adversary targets, closing kill chains that contribute to sea control and sea denial, and detecting and exposing malignant behavior and reassuring allies and partners. Ellis-Class Multi-Mission Reconnaissance Craft (MMRC) will organize in surface squadrons and operate from distributed EABs. Our focus is to assess and analyze the MMRC Squadrons operation in the contact layer to deter, deny, and defeat adversary incursions into partner nation littoral territory and/or international waters. Our research objectives are to determine significant design decisions, operational parameters and metrics in the successful employment and operations of MMRCs. Our methodology is to leverage experience gained by applying model-based systems engineering (MBSE) and simulation analysis to recent research involving the operational Navy, to include projects involving joint fires within DMO and the deployment of hypersonic missiles on an amphibious ship. We apply a similar approach here but augment it with a system of systems analysis of Ellis MMRC as Stand-in-Forces, as well as a challenging and relevant CONOPS and joint operational scenario, allowing for the assessment of proposed composition and capabilities of the Ellis MMRCs as a maneuver element enabling forces to conduct partnered littoral patrols and interdict adversaries. In conflict scenarios, Ellis Squadrons continue partnered littoral patrols with host nation forces, now interdicting and engaging hostile air/surface/subsurface incursions as part of a mobile defense in zone while setting conditions for the introduction of larger follow-on forces. We expect 4 to 6 students in Masters of Systems Engineering program to contribute directly to this effort through their thesis or capstone project.
Keywords	Multi Mission Reconnaissance Craft, littorals, DMO, modeling and simulation
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