Organizational Unit:
Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program

Series

Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Project Documents

Date Established

1992

Date Dissolved

2007

Description

The program, since its inception in 1992, provides a broad based, systems engineering and design oriented education, focusing on the warship as a total engineering system, including needs, mission effectiveness, hull, mechanical, electrical, and combat systems.

Type

Program

Website of the organization

https://web.nps.edu/Academics/GSEAS/TSSE/index.html

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SABR: Ship Anti Ballistic Response
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2006) Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
Based on public law and Presidential mandate, ballistic missile defense development is a front-burner issue for homeland defense and the defense of U.S. and coalition forces abroad. Spearheaded by the Missile Defense Agency, an integrated ballistic missile defense system was initiated to create a layered defense composed of land-, air-, sea-, and space based assets. The Ship Anti-Ballistic Response (SABR) Project is a systems engineering approach that suggests a conceptualized system solution to meet the needs of the sea portion of ballistic missile defense in the 2025-2030 timeframe. The system is a unique solution to the sea-based ballistic missile defense issue, combining the use of a railgun interceptor1 and a conformable aperture skin-of-the ship radar system.
Large Missile Carrier
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 1993) Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
The intent of this design was to explore the nature of ship which would augment the magazine capacity of a Navy carrier battle group. A battle group could find itself engaging so many incoming threats that its missile magazines are depleted while the ships still retain the ability to engage further threats.
TSUNAMI: A Maritime Threat Response System
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2006) Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
Currently, no specifically designed system exists that provides a forward deployed option to board and search commercial traffic bound for the United States. With the increase in terrorist activity, the need for the United States to protect herself is evident and even paramount. One area of concern is the commercial traffic coming into various seaports of the United States. The desire to meet the potential adversary at the furthest point of attack and not impede the timeline of commercial traffic was the overarching objective for this project. This report describes the designed system of systems that meets the preferred requirements of self-protection for the United States by inbound commercial shipping traffic. The intent of not impeding commercial traffic is also met. Through the Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) process, a system that is forward deployed, addresses multiple ports and combines the presence of smaller interceptors on board a mothership was designed.
Regional Deterrence Ship
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 1992) Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
This ship was to be highly effective at operating in littoral waters to deter regional conflicts between third world nations and at hampering the military operations of the aggressor nation in the event deterrence failed. The ship was required to have significant capability to support the evacuation of friendly personnel; to be fully capable of operation with a battle group; to support limited amphibious operations (conducted from other ships) and to have robust self-defense capabilities.
"SEA ARCHER" Distributed Aviation Platform
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2001-12) Calvano, Charles N.; Harney, Robert; Byers, David; Papoulias, Fotis; Ciezki, John; Keller, Joe; Cooke, Rabon; Ivey, James; Stallings, Brad; Searles, Scot; Kuchler, Ryan; Ng, Ivan; Okan, Orhan; Gokee, Mersin; Dalakos, Antonios; Lashomb, Pete; Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
Currently, no system exists that provides a sea-based distributed aviation platform capability. The emergence of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) / Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), the continued U.S. Navy focus on the littorals, the desire for force distribution, the need for operational cost reductions, and the advent of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) all continue to support the requirement to re-evaluate how littoral operations will be conducted in the future. Given this background, a bottom-up design of a ship supporting a primarily UAV/UCAV air wing in a low to medium threat environment is of significant interest. SEA ARCHER meets this interest. This report outlines a design that meets the future needs for distributed aviation with a high-speed, highly automated platform. Large gains in reduced manning through automated systems for both operation and damage control helpmeet the demanding needs for the future of the Navy at reduced operational costs. The report will outline both the Mission Needs Statement (MNS) and Operational Requirements Document (ORD) for the ship that was developed. The analysis of alternatives that was conducted to determine relative size requirements for the ship in presented in the next section. The concept design that resulted as a result of the Total Ship Systems Engineeing process in then presented. Finally, a detailed look at the analysis and trade studies that were conducted in presented in order to show the more detailed analysis that was conducted in designing the ship.
Littoral undersea warfare in 2025
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2005-12) Bindi, Victor; Kaslik, Michael; Baker, Jeffrey; Manning, Keith; Billington, Ryan; Horton, Peter; Gallassero, Tawanna; Mueller, Arthur; Gueary, Joseph; Scherry, Justin; Harts, Nathan; Strunk, John; Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science (GSEAS); SEA-8; Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program; Systems Engineering (SE)
The US Navy is unlikely to encounter a sea-borne peer competitor in the next twenty years. However, some regional powers will seek to develop submarine forces which could pose a significant threat in littoral waters. In this context, the Littoral Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) in 2025 Project applied Systems Engineering principles and processes to create a number of competing ASW force architectures capable of neutralizing the enemy submarine threat. Forces composed of distributed unmanned systems and projected conventional ASW force systems were modeled and analyzed. Results provided insight to ASW challenges and suggested continued efforts that are required to further define and integrate the contribution of evolving technologies into the complex undersea battlespace.
An Arsenal Ship Design
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 1996) Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
The Navy's "Arsenal Ship Concept of Operations (CONOPS)" and "Arsenal Ship Capabilities Document (SCD)" addressed the need for the design of a large missile platform that could carry massive and precise firepower, accomplish long-range strike, and perform flexible targeting and multidimensional theater defense capabilities consistent with the policies of "Forward...From the Sea" and "Operational Maneuver from the Sea." The ship reported here is designed to be a large missile magazine that receives its launch orders from remote air, land or sea forces. It is fully integrated into the joint command and control structure to assist current forces in the opening days of conflict. A major design goal of the Arsenal Ship is to limit the crew size to 50 personnel through the use of system automation, redundancy and equipment reliability, while imposing an additional constraint of limiting the sailaway price to 550 million dollars.
Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program (archived)
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2015-07) Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program; Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Joint ACCESS: High-Speed Assault Connector (HSAC) for Amphibious Seabasing Operations and Joint Expeditionary Logistics
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2004-12) Anil, Kivanc; Avcu, Mehmet; Brisar, Jon; Chaabane, Adnen; Dimas, Sotirios; King, Timothy; Peace, Steven; Perez-Villalonga, Francisco; Peterson, Derek; Reuse, Rolando; Roberts, Scott; Papoulias, Fotis; Harney, Robert; Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program
The current notion of seabasing requires that three Battalion Landing Teams (BLT) of a 2025 Joint Expeditionary Brigade (JEB) need to be able to transit from the Sea Base to the objective within a 10 hour period. Of the three BLTs, two of them must be transported by surface craft a distance of no more than 200nm in sea state 4 or less. The two surface bound BLTs need to be loaded onto the transporting craft and delivered to shore, whether it is a port facility or austere beachhead. There is no current or future system of connectors to meet all the time-distance, sea state, and interface flexibility requirements for this aspect of seabasing. To meet these requirements a High Speed Assault Connector (HSAC) is needed which either augments current or replaces existing connector platforms to deliver and support the required forces ashore. The Joint ACCESS is a HSAC that brings the necessary speed, payload capacity, interface capability, and mission flexibility needed to fill the Sea Base to shore transportation gap. With a maximum speed of 43kts and payload capacity of 800LT, 12 Joint ACCESS trimarans can transit 200nm and fully offload in 7 hours. Its beachable design uses a floating bow ramp to reach out to austere beaches, while its combat system suite provides self defense in addition to robust offensive capabilities.
The Surface Warfare Test Ship
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2000-01) Calvano, Charles Natale; Harney, Robert C.; Wickersham, David; Farsaris, Ioannis; Malone, Philip; Ruley, David; York, Nathan; Total Ship Systems Engineering (TSSE) Program; Mechanical Engineering (ME); Physics (PH)
A systems engineering approach to the design of a ship conversion to satisfy the requirements for a Surface Warfare Test Ship (SWTS) to be employed by the Port Hueneme Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center is presented. The ship described would meet test needs for future weapons and sensor systems and provide limited test capability for future hull, mechanical and electrical systems. The current Self Defense Test Ship is over 45 years old, approaching the end of its useful life. A conversion of a decommissioned SPRUANCE (DD 963) class ship is the basis for the replacement Surface Warfare Test Ship. The study proceeds from mission needs and operational requirements through a functional analysis and study of threat weapons to be employed against the SWTS. After summarizing the characteristics of a SPRUANCE Class ship, the study reports an analysis of four alternative conversion schemes. The alternatives are described, with the rationale for choosing that considered best. The chosen alternative is then described and analyzed in several important areas of concern including combat systems functionality, signature characteristics, engineering plant and habitability for test personnel. The fitness of the proposed design for several special evolutions is also described, and alternatives for further enhancing performance are presented.