Expeditionary warfare : force protection
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Authors
Higgins, Eric John
Higgs, Ronald Leroy
Parkins, Gregory Rodger
Tionquiao, Vincent S
Wells, Christopher Kevin
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Date of Issue
2004-01
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
In 2003, the Systems Engineering and Analysis students were tasked to develop a system of systems conceptual solution to provide force protection for the Sea Base conceptualized in the 2002 Expeditionary Warfare study. The Systems Engineering and Analysis Team used the Systems Engineering and Management process as the primary methodology to complete this multidisciplinary task. Survivability was identified as the most critical factor for evaluating the protection of the Sea Base and its transport assets. Threats to the Sea Base were reviewed, analyzed, and prioritized. System design and analysis focused on preliminary analyses of various sensors, search concepts, and weapons. These preliminary analyses identified capability gaps that were translated into functional concepts and proposed architectures for detailed modeling and analysis. These proposed architectures were identified as either Point or Distributed. In order to adequately determine the relative performance of the proposed architectures generated by the team, a thorough and systematic design of experiments was developed and applied in the Naval Simulation System and EXTEND. Based on the results obtained, the Systems Engineering and Analysis Team determined that a Distributed Sensor and Weapons architecture would significantly increase the survivability of future Expeditionary Warfare forces.
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Thesis
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Student Integrated Project
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Includes supplementary material
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Systems Engineering (SE)
Organization
SEA-4
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SEA 4
NPS Report Number
NPS-97-04-001
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