Naval Engineering in the 21st Century The Science and Technology Foundation for Future Naval Fleets -- Special Report 306 (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B Abstracts of Commissioned Papers
Appendix B Abstracts of Commissioned Papers
Pages 223-231
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The needs for a technically literate workforce and its supporting education system continue to draw the attention of national leaders. A common message has been issued by recent National Academy of Engineering studies, President Obama's April 2009 speech to the Academy, and the November 2009 White House Educate to Innovate initiative: the nation needs to increase its attention to and involvement with the science and engineering education system and the professional development pipeline.
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Given the significant investment in education and training programs, proper attention must be devoted to retain these skilled graduates in the naval engineering field. COMMISSIONED PAPER 2 Some Potential Technology Implications of the Navy's Future Ronald O'Rourke, Congressional Research Service (April 30, 2010)
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Naval warfare is shaped by the vastness of the sea, which makes the movements of ships beyond the horizon difficult to know. Thus, relatively small groups of ships have exerted enormous impact, and until the 20th century, all naval battles were fought near important places ashore, because fleets found other fleets as a consequence of blockade operations.
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The paper continues with a discussion of technology transition challenges, provides technology transition examples, and offers recommendations to improve the process. COMMISSIONED PAPER 5 Naval Ship Design and Construction: Topics for the R&D Community Paul E
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This paper explores the needs for substantive improvement in shipbuilding costs as follows: • Cultural changes in the approach to requirements, ship design, and ship construction that could reduce the overall cost of battle-force ships; • Process changes and design tools that could substantively reduce the time needed for and the cost of designing and constructing naval ships; and • Technology improvements that can simplify and reduce the cost of ship construction and life-cycle maintenance. The 30-year shipbuilding plan sent to Congress with the FY 2011 budget requires a pace of 12 to 15 ships per year of all types.
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The paper is structured on the basis of these emerging technologies and the impact they are expected to have, providing discussion of their impact on naval ships and vessels and their capabilities. Traditional mechanical engineering departments and naval architecture and marine engineering schools are turning increasingly toward nanoengineering, novel power trains and synthetic fuels, and robotic devices and smart sensors to revitalize mature disciplines.
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Naval ship and submarine design will be influenced significantly by the need to accommodate the storage and servicing as well as the launching and retrieval of AUVs in rough weather; • New high-strength steels that improve hull protection against impact and fatigue, including operation in very cold climates; and • Global ocean modeling and prediction that will allow effective rout ing and operation of vessels in rough seas with unprecedented detail. The paper closes with an assessment of the shape of future naval designs and the capabilities they will offer.
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In this paper three themes are discussed: first, the importance of developing the individuals who are the future for naval engineering; second, the key business, programmatic, and technological challenges that will be important in future naval engineering developments; and third, areas of knowledge that naval engineering leaders need to master, beyond the usual content of formal engineering education. As with most great enterprises, naval engineering for the U.S.
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/Crew Design Process Development in the Zumwalt Destroyer Program: A Case Study in the Importance of Wide Collaboration John Hagan, Bath Iron Works (June 8, 2010) The paper reviews the Bath Iron Works–led human–systems integration (HSI)
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