Fiscal Year	2015
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Kline, Jeffery E.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	This project proposes to expand the modeling of various tactical situations to evaluate the HEL’s impact on ship self-defense in high threat environments using simulation tools like MANA, SIMKIT, ARENA, HELEEOS, EADSIM and other tailored models from NSWC Dahlgren W10 Warfare Analysis division. Each of the tasks below will involve an operational experienced NPS officer, faculty, and students. The fiscal year 2014 effort leveraged the ONR Sponsored Simulation Exercise (SIMEX 14-1) that was held at MITRE in McLean Virginia in November 2013. The SIMEX and NSWC Dahlgren provided realistic tactical situations and weapon performance data for development of the NPS “SSL in MANA” agent based tactical simulation to analyze a UAV swarm attack against a DDG equipped with SSL. This paper proposes continuing “SSL in MANA” development by adding the ability to model an attack by a variety of threats, including small boats and anti-ship cruise missiles. In addition to creating a tactical simulation to evaluate technical advances in SSL development, this effort will aid the next generation of naval officers in receiving education regarding the use of HELs in the fleet. Research results from these studies will be incorporated into courses taken by all students in the curriculum. In addition, this research will benefit cost-benefit studies sponsored by ASN (RDA) related to fielding HEL weapon systems in our surface combatant fleet.
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