A Military Effectiveness Analysis and Decision Making Framework for Naval Ship Design and Acquisition

Abstract

This research develops a new framework for performing military effectiveness analyses and design tradeoff decisions. It provides an extensive survey of literature for effectiveness analysis and multi-criteria decision making to develop a single consistent philosophy for such analyses.This philosophy is applied to a requirements and effectiveness analysis case study of a conventional submarine that is performed using Response Surface Methods to facilitate design space visualization and decision maker interaction. Measures of Merit are developed and applied to the case study. The resulting requirements space and methods to visualize and explore it in a decision making context are presented and discussed Lastly, a framework is proposed that would facilitate the concurrent consideration of requirements and effectiveness analyses with design and technology forecasting to create a Unified Tradeoff Environment that would provide decision makers with pertinent information to facilitate better informed requirements derivation and design selection.

Forecasting System-Level Impacts of Technology Infusion in Ship Design

“…The performance module calculates the maximum surfaced range, the maximum submerged range at different speeds of advance, and the indiscretion rates (IRs) that correspond to those speeds. It also calculates the OMOE of the design, based on the relative weights as specified by the user (Hootman and Whitcomb 2005; Psallidas et al 2010).…”

“…The selection between different designs can be carried out using an OMOE and a structured analysis and multicriteria decision‐making process. Such a process and its corresponding analysis must be firmly grounded in the principles of systems engineering and it must have clear traceability back to the requirements that were established (Hootman and Whitcomb 2005).…”

“…Above the balance speed, it is effective to run both the AIP system and the storage battery, because a lightly loaded battery has a larger effective capacity. Typical advertised values of AIP endurance for some modern submarines are 12–14 days at a balance speed of 4–6 knots (Hootman and Whitcomb 2005).…”

Anchorage Deviation Ship Management and Monitoring Scheme

“…John, et al, [1] proposed an information analysis and design approach to develop an efficient framework for decision-making systems of military vessels in 2005. This approach considered decision-making systems using Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions.…”

Modelo de otimização multiobjetivo aplicado ao projeto de concepção de submarinos convencionais.

“…Ele aponta que o AHP tem o mérito de capturar, através da opinião de especialistas, ao menos certa parcela dessas complexas interações. Já Hootman [26] frisa que a efetividade de um navio/submarino deve ser avaliada em termos de seu macrossistema. Ou seja, não basta que o submarino seja isoladamente considerado (i.e.…”