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Quantifying the Military Value of an LHA Expanded Adaptive Force Package: America Class Surface Action Group
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-04) Kline, Jeff; Appleget, Jeff; Paulo, Gene; Beery, Paul; Upton, Steve; Gulosh, Nate; King, John; DeJute, Gregory; ; KSpeten, K.; Polito, Michael; Cline, R.; Cosner, Matt; Ryan, A.; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program; Operations Research (OR); GSOIS
Project Summary: Using a series of campaign analyses, wargaming, systems analysis studies, and systems engineering, this research analyzes the offensive effectiveness of an adaptive force package (AFP) composed of an AMERICA class amphibious assault ship (LHA) equipped with the Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter STOVL Variant aircraft (F-35B), unmanned air and surface platforms, and various numbers of Guided Missile Destroyers (DDGs) and littoral combat ships (LCSs). Offensive anti-surface warfare (ASUW) is the focused mission area, however, increased vulnerability to the LHA is also explored. Emerging themes and findings include the following. Augmented by the Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Expeditionary Experimental tiltrotor system (MUX), the LHA Air Combat Element (ACE) adds significant intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and communications relay capability to a traditional surface action group. The air combat element (ACE)'s F- 35B can add a robust anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) and ISR capabilities to a traditional surface action group. To best be configured for a sea control mission including air defense, the ACE on the LHA will need to be augmented with additional F-35Bs at a significant cost to rotary-wing/tiltrotor assault-support lift.
Long Range Fires in Degraded and Denied Environments
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2022) Paulo, Eugene P.; Beery, Paul T.; Porter, Wayne; MacKinnon, Douglas J.; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program (NRP); Systems Engineering (SE)
The employment of long range fires is a high priority for the U.S. Navy. Long range fires address the capability of U.S. forces to coordinate an emerging arsenal of deep strike weapons against enemy targets that can be launched from an array of joint assets, to include submarines and surface ships, land platforms, and airplanes. This concept means launching ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hypersonic missiles from multiple, extremely dispersed locations, against critical enemy assets at sea or hardened facilities on land. Additionally, the long range fires process must be resilient in a degraded or denied environment. Coordinating long range fires encompasses a complex set of actions, to include target prioritization and development, command and control, tasking, kinetic and non-kinetic fires, battle damage assessment, rearming and contested logistics. Our approach leverages experience gained by applying systems engineering and analysis to recent research involving the operational Navy, to include projects involving joint fires within Distributed Maritime Operations and the deployment of hypersonic missiles on a current U.S. Navy surface ship. We apply a similar approach here but augment it with a system of systems analysis of applying long range fires in a degraded and denied environment as part of a timely and relevant joint operational scenario. We will examine significant design decisions and operational parameters, as well as appropriate measures of effectiveness, in generating successful long range fires through systems architecture development and simulation analysis.
Orbital Engagement Maneuvering
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-04) Hanlon, Edward; Yakimenko, Oleg; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program; Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (GSEAS)
Reverse Engineering in Reverse
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-04) Thompson, Michael; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program; Computer Science (CS)
Prospects for Deterrence, Escalation, Coercion, and War in the Indo-Pacific
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2021) Russell, James A.; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program (NRP); National Security Affairs
This project will provide an assessment of the prospects for war in the Indo-Pacific to inform the Navy strategy in this theater. The project will examine how regional actors assess the prospects for war, specifically their attitudes towards deterrence, escalation management on the use of force at sea, and the implications for possible conflict with Indo-Pacific competitors. The findings in this study will be used to assess the implications for US maritime strategy throughout the region. The study will highlight the need for the Navy to rediscover long-forgotten writings on deterrence, coercion, and strategy to analyze the dimensions of the strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific.
Diesel Submarine Support to SOF
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-12) Ferrer, Geraldo; Veronneau, Simon; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program (NRP); Business and Public Policy (GSBPP); Graduate School of Defense Management (GSDM)
Diesel Submarine Support to SOF
Hydrogen Fuel in Support of Unmanned Operations in an EABO Environment
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2022) Pollman, Anthony G.; Beery, Paul T.; Lussier, Jonathan; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program (NRP); Systems Engineering (SE)
Navy and Marine Corps planners developed the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) concept of operations to provide maritime commanders with more options for future sea control operations. Additionally, Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE) is the concept for logistical support to multiple EABO sites. Finally, NAVPLAN 2020 and the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy detail the importance of unmanned systems capabilities to future warfighting. Many unmanned undersea and aerial systems currently in development are looking to alternative energy sources, including hydrogen, to maximize operational reach and persistence. The picture is clear, the future combat environment demands risk-worthy platforms to perform sea denial as a low-signature "inside force' that is untethered from a large petroleum supply chain. This study will assess hydrogen requirements for use as a fuel in an EABO environment to inform development of a capability evolution plan. This work will apply a holistic, systems engineering approach to develop a finite set of scenarios for hydrogen use as a fuel in an EABO environment. One scenario will be modelled to determine short, mid, and long-term requirements for: hydrogen generation and storage, fuel-cell numbers and capabilities, facilities, and safety or other '-ilities' of relevance. The goal is to investigate benefits and system of systems trade-offs with the objective of delaying fuel resupply to the greatest extent possible. This will inform identification of DOTMLPF gaps to hydrogen adoption as an enabler of EABO in LOCE and support development of a capability evolution plan. This work directly supports technology assessment & transition in support of ONR S&T objectives, as well as the analysis & assessment needs of OPNAV N-94, MCWL, and NECC. An interdisciplinary team of students and faculty from Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Operations Research will contribute. Systems Engineering will lead the study.
GCSS Analytics Proof of Concept
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2016) Kendall, Tony; Schwamm, Riqui; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program; Graduate School of Operational and Information Science (GSOIS)
A Technical Roadmap for Autonomy for Marine Future Vertical Lift (FVL)
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2022) Miller, Scot A.; McGuire, Mollie R.; Boger, Dan C.; Fitzpatrick, Christian R.; Mislick, Gregory K.; Johnson, Bonnie W.; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program (NRP); Information Sciences (IS); Information Sciences (IS) ; Consortium for Intelligent Systems Education and Research (CISER)
The Marines desire to leverage automation in their next Future Vertical Lift (FVL) platform, meaning they must define the human-FVL teaming interactions. The FVL will operate in a wide spectrum of flight regimes, from remotely piloted, to fully manned, to mostly automatic, and in combinations of the above. This broadened operating approach necessitates that understanding the various human machine teaming interdependent interactions across this diverse operating spectrum be completely delineated. NPS is well positioned to assist. Three approaches are considered: Use Co-active Design, since it is a rigorous engineering process that captures these interactions and interdependencies, develops workflows, and identifies resilient paths for human machine teaming using interdependence analysis (IA); define an FVL 'Living Lab' (LL) that the FVL program management office (PMO) could use to explore technical and concept tradeoffs; establish the cost/benefit relationships of these approaches; and design approaches to developing trust within this operating framework. The topic sponsor desires these techniques so as to create a PMO that decreases the speed at which technical tradeoffs can be identified and made.
Interim Progress Review Responding to Russian Noncompliance with Nuclear Arms Control Agreements
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2015) Tsypkin, Mikhail; Yost, David; Naval Research Program (NRP); Naval Research Program