{"title":"American Shipbuilding and Repair Industry Welcomes Strategic Partnership with Major Defense Shipyards","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00348.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00348.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49775,"journal":{"name":"Naval Engineers Journal","volume":"123 3","pages":"43-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00348.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72363601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Agents to Model the Kill Chain of the Ballistic Missile Defense System","authors":"O. THOMAS HOLLAND, SARA E. WALLACE","doi":"10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00336.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00336.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Deterministic models have long been used to model the individual effectiveness of elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Agent-based models (ABMs) emphasize the specification of the individual components comprising a system and demonstrate higher order system properties through the interactions of those components. ABMs are particularly suited to (1) complex systems where it is easier to understand or observe the individual components rather than the dynamics that govern their interactions and (2) systems where empirical data is insufficient to provide statistical representations. New missions and capabilities desired by national leadership call for increased interaction between the BMDS elements and their subsystems. New capabilities and mission threads include launch on remote and engage on remote capabilities as well as a robust missile defense system capable of defending against threat raids, debris, and decoys. These new capabilities and mission threads may require modifications to kill chains and command and control constructs as well as improved coordination and performance. These capabilities must be realized through modifications to programs of record and integration across elements of the system that have their own independent programmatic momentum. A robust missile defense system must be achieved through a construct of layered defenses. Change in capabilities requires analysis of the complex interdependencies between Standard Missile (SM-3), SPY, and BMDS elements such as PATRIOT, Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System, etc. Synergy among the systems (termed “elements”) is required to meet the new challenges, which can be accomplished through systems of systems engineering. Definition and testing of the interactions between the systems are crucial to provide situational awareness via analysis of data transfer between the elements. ABMs are a tool that allows qualitative evaluation of these interactions of the complex BMDS. This paper presents an investigation of agent-based modeling as a method to explore the system interrelationships and evaluate the indeterminacy of the BMDS kill chain.</p>","PeriodicalId":49775,"journal":{"name":"Naval Engineers Journal","volume":"123 3","pages":"141-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00336.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72330357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STATE OF THE THE SOCIETY ADDRESS","authors":"Ms. Kathleen E. Hinton","doi":"10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00340.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00340.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49775,"journal":{"name":"Naval Engineers Journal","volume":"123 3","pages":"10-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00340.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72330353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naval Ship Integration – Can It Be Done?","authors":"ALFRED SKOLNICK","doi":"10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00346.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00346.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49775,"journal":{"name":"Naval Engineers Journal","volume":"123 3","pages":"30-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00346.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72330354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High‐Level Methodologies to Evaluate Naval Task Groups","authors":"R. Martens, Mark Rempel","doi":"10.1111/J.1559-3584.2010.00264.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1559-3584.2010.00264.X","url":null,"abstract":"Defense organizations within many nations (e.g., United States and Canada), use capability-based planning (CBP) to guide their force development processes. A key element of the CBP process is testing current and proposed capabilities against force planning scenarios, particularly for asset evaluation. This analysis involves a wide range of capabilities, and thus is a multicriteria problem. Comparison of alternatives using multiple criteria is challenging, and often is assisted by aggregation techniques. Set in a naval context, this paper presents three high-level capability aggregation techniques: the vector method, star plot method, and wedge method. Each method aggregates naval task group capabilities, with respect to a scenario, into three quantifiable measures: effectiveness, unmatched, and unused. As with numerous techniques, the effectiveness gauges the ability of a task group to meet a set of scenario requirements. The unmatched and unused measures yield insight into capability gaps, which is an important aspect of CBP. The unmatched metric measures scenario requirements that are not provided by a task group and the unused metric measures task group capabilities that are not required by a scenario. An application of the methods is presented, including a discussion of their strengths and weaknesses. Based on this work, it is concluded that the vector method is the best of the three presented.","PeriodicalId":49775,"journal":{"name":"Naval Engineers Journal","volume":"76 1","pages":"67-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77404368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It is Not Just Hardware and Software, Anymore! Human Systems Integration in US Submarines","authors":"Patricia S. Hamburger, David Miskimens, S. Truver","doi":"10.1111/J.1559-3584.2009.00198.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1559-3584.2009.00198.X","url":null,"abstract":"Until recently, the Navy's approach to designing, engineering, and acquiring complex weapon systems did not routinely or completely include the human “warrior” as an integral part of the system. Rather, the Navy viewed systems as combinations of hardware and software. The results were often less-than-optimal capability and high life-cycle cost—and, sometimes, even mission failure. Given the high rate of technological change and the need to rein in cost in the face of increasingly constrained budgets, the Navy and the other services have increasingly embraced the need to consider human-performance capabilities and limitations up front and on an equal footing with hardware and software—as integral elements in both new-acquisition and technology-refresh programs. The US Submarine Force has championed human systems integration (HSI). HSI is a specialized engineering discipline that takes human limitations and capabilities fully into account to influence system design and engineering early in the research, development, and acquisition process, thereby helping to ensure the highest overall performance at the lowest total ownership cost. Implementation of HSI has involved new partnerships with unlikely partners such as the audio equipment company Bose, game-makers, the visual-reality industry, physiologists, and psychologists. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the Virginia (SSN-774)-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine Program.","PeriodicalId":49775,"journal":{"name":"Naval Engineers Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"41-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85986192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}