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Back Applying Systems Engineering and Architecture to the Logistics and Support of the Fleet’s Distributed Lethality Concept

Fiscal Year 2015
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Paulo, Eugene P.
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary Distributed lethality enables localized sea control to generate larger combat effects through increasing the offensive power of individual components of the surface force-cruisers, destroyers, littoral combatant ships (now Frigates), amphibious ships, and logistic ships and then employing them in dispersed offensive formations known as “hunter-killer Surface Action Groups (SAGs)” (Rowden, Gumataotao, Fanta, Jan 2015). This research project addresses the need to provide logistical support to distributed naval forces. To understand the challenges of providing logistical support to the Fleet as it exercises this DL capability, it is essential to develop a framework, or systems architecture (SA), that clearly defines and describes these logistical challenges regarding DL through the broader application of model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This SA will serve as the centerpiece of the development, implementation, and analysis of a logistical analysis approach, which will likely include simulation that will allow the surface Navy to examine different options for providing logistical support of naval forces operating in a DL mode. Our approach is similar to several recent studies conducted by faculty and students in the Systems Engineering Department. The result is an “architecture” that allows traceability from simulation variables (or system parameters, performance measures) of interest back to system functions and overall problem definition, as well traceability forward to components of the system solution. This work will be conducted by a resident Systems Engineering Masters student, who is a US Navy Surface Warfare Officer.
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