Submarine Pier Side Weapons Handling Risk Assessment

Abstract

This research examines new methods to assess and improve Physical Protection Systems (PPS), paying specific attention to a Navy Level 3 Restricted Areas, a special type of industrial and refit zone that normally handles high value units such as aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines, utilizing Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and System of Systems (SoS) theory to create a framework which couples architectural level PPS design with detailed discrete event security assessment and prediction techniques in order to provide decision makers and acquisition authorities a more quantitative and effective method to holistically understand a PPS and the PPS�s internal and external interactions, allowing for improved capability and vulnerability analysis and the formulation of sound acquisition decisions.