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Programs to Increase the Technological Competitiveness of U.S. Shipyards
Pages 61-74

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From page 61...
... government shipbuilding assistance programs in greater detail.) This chapter evaluates selected recent and proposed federal and joint government-industry programs:1 ARPA's MARITECH program, Technology 1Significant programs relevant to the technology of commercial shipbuilding were identified and selected for evaluation based on the knowledge of committee members and Marine Board staff, extensive information provided to the committee by government liaisons, and subsequent interviews with program managers.
From page 62...
... program; the Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) Sealift Ship Technology Development Program and Affordability Through Commonality program; the ONR Surface Ship Technology Program; standards activities, including those of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
From page 63...
... , and the immediate effort is to help individual teams, not the overall shipbuilding industry. • Funding is awarded based on an open competition that is outside the FAR process and can use new government agreements that allow flexibility in "contracting" to reduce the complexity of the program.
From page 64...
... 9% 3% 29% 58% 0% term." The cost-match from private-sector participants allowed the inclusion of in-kind contributions, so the overall cash outlays the programs represent are actually twice their reported dollar amount. The first MARITECH projects were completed in the fall of 1995.
From page 65...
... The proprietary nature of the program has the advantage of encouraging industry participation in individual projects, but it does not encourage joint efforts between shipyards to improve the total health of the U.S. shipbuilding industry.
From page 66...
... Navy ships. TABLE 3-3 MANTECH Projects, by Primary Technology Area Business Production Process System Process Product Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies Other Number of projects 0 8 27 6 3 addressing the technology area Dollar value of $0 $9,960 $63,286 $12,923 $5,010 programs ($1,000)
From page 67...
... Tables 3-3 and 3-4 summarize the emphases of the 44 MANTECH projects using the committee's analytical framework. Note that, like Table 3-1, Table 3-3 classifies projects only by primary technology area; and, like Table 3-2, Table 3-4 classifies projects by all identifiable technology area goals, distributing dollar TABLE 3-4 MANTECH Projects, by Both Primary and Secondary Technology Areas Business Production Process System Process Product Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies Other Number of projects 3 8 27 6 20 addressing the technology areaa Dollar value of $650 $9,310 $63,786 $12,423 $5,010 programs ($1,000)
From page 68...
... shipbuilding industry -- as indeed this program was not designed to be. The stated purpose of MANTECH is to support manufacturing needs to improve the nation's ability to provide affordable military equipment and to sustain that equipment cost effectively.
From page 69...
... The technologies/developments addressed by the program include total ship concepts, alternatives for achieving quick convertibility of lift on/lift off cargo ships to roll on/roll off cargo ships and vice versa, improvements in ship production and design for production methods, better hydrodynamics, improved ship propulsion, equipment to increase cargo loading and unloading rates (including merchant ship replenishment) , manning reduction concepts, improved structural configurations and materials, and logistics-over-the-shore (LOTS)
From page 70...
... Examples include projects on the advanced double hull, affordable composite structures, and advanced electrical systems. Projects under the ONR Surface Ship Technology Program are generally targeted at technologies, such as composites and fuel cells, that will yield products for the next generation of ships, rather than for any segment of today's commercial shipbuilding market.
From page 71...
... Short-term goals will be establishing a Marine Industry Standards Library, assisting companies that wish to be qualified to ISO 9000 for quality assurance, conducting seminars and training, communicating with the U.S. Coast Guard to implement consensus standards in lieu of regulations, providing support to ISO TC-8, coordinating with ARPA on the MARITECH program, updating MARAD Guideline Specifications to include international standards and reflect metric dimensions, developing a three-dimensional computer-aided design library, and providing information on marine environmental protection.
From page 72...
... The greatest emphasis on business processes is in the MARITECH and BMP programs. The NSRP and the Navy Manufacturing Technology programs emphasize shipyard production processes; and the ONR Surface Ship Technology program, the Mid-Term Sealift Ship Technology Development program, and the Navy's Affordability Through Commonality program emphasize product technologies, although the last two are intended to improve shipyard production processes.
From page 73...
... firms, improvement in this area must come mostly from companies investing their own funds and energies, as was made clear in Chapter 2. Similarly, although government investment in production processes is significant, shipbuilders will need to invest many times that amount to implement newly developed production technologies.
From page 74...
... 74 SHIPBUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION REFERENCES Garcia, L


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