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Topics: Systems engineering, Systems engineering, Systems engineering Design
Evaluation enable the Government to effectively and efficiently fulfill its mission. The current transition to Performance Based Service Acquisition (PBSA) and Multiple Award Contracts (MACs) have profound impact on program cubes, and many organizations are venturing concurrently into these strategies for the first time. The intent of PBSA is to maximize performance, innovation, and competition often at a savings." MACs are intended to benefit Government and industry by helping to ensure...
Topic: Systems engineering
The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the DoD's next generation military Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Satellite Communication (SATCOM) system being designed to augment and eventually replace the currently oversubscribed UHF Follow-On (UFO) System. MUOS adapts a commercial third generation (3G) Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) cellular phone network architecture and combines it with geosynchronous satellites (in place of cell towers) with the goal of providing a more capable UHF...
Topic: Systems engineering
Currently, all Missile Defense Agency (MDA) instrumentation radars are land-based at Reagan Test Site (RTS) in the Marshall Islands and the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The dependency on land-based radars produces significant gaps in radar coverage of planned ballistic missile defense system (BMDS) tests. The S.S. Beaver State is a former cargo ship that was converted to a crane ship. The purpose of a crane ship is to unload/load other ships at ports...
Topic: Systems engineering
Combat operations are suffering from unnecessarily high fuel demand which degrades capability, exposes support operations to greater risk than necessary, and increases operations and support costs. This thesis describes the current suite of hybrid drivetrain technologies, evaluates their effectiveness in a tactical environment, and suggests an architecture that reduces fuel consumption while maintaining performance against mobility, transportability, survivability, and safety requirements. This...
Topic: Systems engineering
The state-of-art technologies keep generating new ways of improving on the performance of the old systems. Array antennas, one of the continuously improving technologies, brought many benefits to our life. The superiorities of array antennas remove the disadvantages of the old technology radars such as great sidelobes, vulnerability to the jammers, and degradation effect of the clutter. Array antennas find many applications on different areas. Today, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have begun...
Topic: Systems engineering
The United States Navy's Cryptologic Carry-On Program Office manages a portfolio of Information Warfare (IW) systems. This research and case study demonstrate how the Knowledge Value Added (KVA) Methodology can be used to formulate a framework for extracting and analyzing performance parameters and measures of effectiveness for each system. KVA measures the effectiveness and efficiency of CCOP systems and the impact they have on the Intelligence Collection Process (ICP) on board U.S. Navy...
Topic: Systems engineering
Unmanned drones, robots, and vehicles are often chosen to perform tasks in harsh and dangerous environments. Autonomous vehicles are ideal in tactical situations when these vehicles can perform functions for warfighters when the risk to human life is significantly too high. In particular, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a common staple of military operations. Common sizes range from slingshot-launched spy bots to global guardians. Small UAV of all types have limited mission...
Topic: Systems engineering
Command and control (C2) is an enigma that has been studied by military leaders and warfare analysts for hundreds of years. As a result of the numerous definitions and concepts of C2, the design of C2 systems is a challenge to systems engineers. Adding to the challenge is the understanding and integration of new operational concepts, such as Network-Centric Warfare, identified by stakeholders as necessary to meet operational needs. Through the use of a system architecture methodology, this...
Topic: Systems engineering
Thesis advisor(s): Alfred W. Cooper
Topic: Systems Engineering
Most military installations utilize an entry control point that is inefficient, time consuming, and manpower intensive. Unfortunately, as a result of the current inefficiency, traffic congestion has become a nuisance for many service members, as well as government employees. Directive Type Memorandum (DTM) 09-012, \"Interim Policy Guidance DoD Physical Access Control\" distributed by the Undersecretary of the Navy states that biometric access to military installations shall be...
Topic: Systems engineering
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Topic: Systems engineering
Command and Control (C2) techniques and procedures radically changed with the emergence of Network-Centric capabilities. The extensive amount of information distributed to soldiers in the modern battlefield often results in cognitive overload. Utilizing the human sense of touch to convey information may avoid information bottlenecks. Tactile interfaces seem to be an alternate way to manage information efficiently, especially in small network-enabled units, thereby enhancing their performance on...
Topic: Systems engineering
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Topic: Systems engineering
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Thesis advisor(s): Alfred W. Cooper
Topic: Systems Engineering
Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) is a theory of war in the information age that hypothesizes that forces, which exploit networked conditions better than their adversaries, will achieve tactical advantage. Understanding how Network-Centric Systems (NCS) that support NCW are acquired is essential for the continued development and delivery of systems that are affordable, meet end-user requirements, and that can be fielded quickly. The Network-Centric Acquisition Process (NCAP) will enable the DoD to...
Topic: Systems engineering
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Topic: Systems engineering
There are prominent unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) systems existing in the commercial marketplace today, but these systems have a relatively small role and presence in U.S. Navy application. This thesis suggests what existing commercially available UUV system architectural attributes could be used now in U.S. Navy applications. After a survey of multiple existing commercial UUV systems, five of the prevalent systems in the marketplace were selected for analysis and comparison of their system...
Topic: Systems engineering
A successful terrorist attack using a ship as a weapon (SAW) on shore infrastructure in the Malacca and Singapore Straits would cause chaos to global trade, as these Straits carry over one-quarter of the world's commerce and half the world's oil. This calamity must be prevented. Toward this goal, this thesis aims at developing and determining the best distributed sensor network (DSN) architecture and implementing a sensor fusion algorithm for tracking a SAW intended to run into the oil and...
Topic: Systems engineering
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Topic: Systems engineering
This study examined the effectiveness of Introductory Flight Screening (IFS) for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps student pilots. It compared a non-IFS group to an IFS-complete group to determine if IFS had any effect on Primary drop-on-request (DOR) and flight-failure (FF) attrition. It then examined the return on investment (ROI) of the IFS program utilizing T-34 flying-hour costs, active-duty costs, and opportunity cost-savings of IFS-screened students who did not enter undergraduate pilot...
Topic: Systems engineering
Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) are designed and built to have minimum crew sizes thus, while the ship is in port, there are fewer crewmembers to facilitate pier monitoring, security, and conducting mustering of personnel. The crew of LCS ships presently have too many responsibilities to ensure 100% coverage of the Pier area 100% of the time, and cannot manually maintain a real time muster of all ships personnel. This lack of coverage and situational awareness could make LCS ships vulnerable to...
Topic: Systems engineering
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Topics: Systems engineering, Project management
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Topic: RELIABILITY (ENGINEERING),SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Department of the Navy system acquisition begins with a statement of user need. Delivery of required capability depends heavily on the effective translation of user need to system requirements. Failure typically results in program cost overruns, schedule slippage, and sometimes partial or complete failure to deliver needed capability. Architectures as part of systems engineering were created to cope with the growing complexity of modern systems. The Navy develops and operates some of the most...
Topics: Systems engineering, Architecture
The Naval Systems Engineering Guide (NESG) was written in 2004 by representatives from NAVSEA, NAVFAC, NAVAIR, NAVSUP and MARCORSYSCOM. Since then, three other foundational systems engineering documents have been written or revised the International Standards Organization (ISO) Standard 15288 in 2008, the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Systems Engineering Handbook in 2011, and The guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) in 2012. This thesis compares the...
Topic: Systems Engineering Policy
In 2010, the USMC changed its Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP) to include operational design in response to direction from the Commander of United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM). This updated process however has proven to be misunderstood and fundamentally no different from the previous edition based upon the classical decision making model. This thesis therefore presents an alternative planning process for the United States Marine Corps. This thesis uses the foundations of systems...
Topics: Systems engineering, Military planning
Over the last two decades, cockpits have migrated from the traditional analog gauges of moving dials to computer displays representing an assortment of flight data. To keep in stride with this modernization trend, the U.S. Navy determined that the newest rotary-wing fleet aircraft, the MH-60S and MH-60R, would incorporate these advanced cockpit designs. This program was named Common Cockpit. Using structured interviews with current Navy MH-60S pilots, and analysis of system design models; it...
Topics: Naval aviation, Systems engineering
This volume was digitized and made accessible online due to deterioration of the original print copy.
Topics: Systems engineering, Water--Purification
The importance of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to warfighters has been growing. Each loss (regardless of whether the entire UAS or parts of it) has become more expensive and unaffordable in both an operational and monetary sense. An unmanned aircraft (UA) loss may mean that critical missions cannot be performed and millions of dollars of investments on the UA lost. As most existing UAS were designed to be inexpensive and expendable, there is a need to enhance their combat survivability....
Topics: Systems engineering, Methodology
Watermarking Systems Engineering
Topic: Watermarking Systems Engineering
In the frequency domain all materials can be described electrically by their complex permittivity and permeability. These constitutive parameters determine the response of the material to electromagnetic (EM) radiation. The precise knowledge of complex permittivity and permeability is required not only for scientific but also for industrial applications. Due to the uncertainties in manufacturing processes, often the only way to find a material's parameters is to measure them. The concept of...
Topics: Systems engineering, Metamaterials, Methodology
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Topic: Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering
Naval Postgraduate School
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Topics: Systems engineering, Reliability (Engineering)
This thesis uses systems engineering to create an architecture description for Knowledge Management (KM) at the Launchers Division of the Platform and Payload Integration Department at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. The Launchers Division stores and shares technical information poorly, resulting in inefficiencies and design rework. A formal KM system could improve the situation. The architecture description addresses stakeholder needs while using KM best practices. This study consists of...
Topics: Systems engineering, Information technology
Boost-phase intercept of a threat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is the first layer of a multilayer defense. This thesis investigates the requirements and limitations of the U.S. space-based ICBM defense against North Korea, Iran and China by introducing an ICBM trajectory prediction, selecting an orbit for exoatmospheric kill vehicles (EKV) and developing a hybrid guidance algorithm. The prediction of the ICBM trajectory takes the rotation of the earth and the atmospheric drag into...
Topics: Systems engineering, Algorithms
Many onboard ship operations demand full radio coverage over the entire ship, not only indoor, but also from the interior spaces to the other decks. Onboard a ship, specifically in the upper decks, radio wave propagation is subjected to fading that would impede the quality and reliability of data links and communication. One example is the performance of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data and communications links. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze, model, and simulate some communication...
Topics: Systems engineering, Ships, Geometry
WMSM ) and Maritime Patrol Coastal (WPC). The System Architecture Description Document (SADD), which describes architectural framework that is used to establish the rules, guidance, and product descriptions for developing and presenting architecture descriptions that ensure a common denominator for understanding, comparing, and integrating architectures needs to be written for the WPC. The SADD has been written, established and contractual agreed upon for both the Large and Medium Cutters....
Topics: Architecture, Systems engineering
Sleep-related fatigue has negative effects on both human performance and decision making. Pilots are particularly vulnerable to these adverse effects due to the environment and operational requirements, which entails both long and irregular duty cycles. The Air National Guard received funding from Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Safety Oversight Council to create FlyAwake, a software application that predicts aircrew fatigue based on circadian cycles. FlyAwake uses the Sleep,...
Topics: Naval aviation, Systems engineering
The purpose of this thesis is to study the manning and maintainability requirements of a submarine unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) program. This case study reviews current commercial and military applications of UUVs and applies their principles to the missions of the Navy's submarine force. Past and current UUV efforts are lacking requirements documents and the formal systems engineering process necessary to produce a successful program of record. Therefore, they are not being funded for use...
Topics: Systems engineering, Robotics
The Department of Defense is continuously trying to improve the product development effort for its weapon systems. As the complexity of those systems increases, so does the importance of the test and evaluation process. All Services have been victims of poor performance in the independent Operational Evaluation of their respective weapon systems. With the drive to deliver products rapidly to the Warfighter, the prospect for success in Operational Test is reduced. Years of neglect and funding...
Topics: Systems engineering, United States
lement of risk management processes, is evaluating the network for resiliency; the ability to return to normal in time to prevent the compromise of a mission. The contention is that risk management planning must include planning for network survivability and resiliency. Selected elementary network architectures are analyzed for attributes of the architectures that promote information assurance qualities of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Finally, recommendations are made on...
Topics: Systems engineering, Risk management
This thesis presents the most complete climatology of radio wave (VHF and higher frequencies) tropospheric ducting within Turkey and the surrounding areas ever published. This ducting can result in greatly extended propagation ranges. Atmospheric data from radiosonde upper air observations were collected for a five-year period at stations in Adana, Ankara, Diyarbakir, Isparta, Istanbul, Izmir, Athens, Bucharest, Crete Island, and Tuapse. The upper level and surface ducting yearly average...
Topics: Systems engineering, Atmosphere
Naval Postgraduate School
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Topics: REAL TIME., SYSTEMS ENGINEERING.
The purpose of this research is to investigate how to exploit frequency and polarization techniques in reducing the effects of jamming against UAV relay communication links in an urban warfare environment. There have been early studies investigating the diversity techniques against multipath and fading problems in urban environments. A medium without any jamming issues seems almost impossible to exist in today's warfare. Basically, noise jamming issues were taken into consideration. Urbana...
Topics: Urban warfare, Systems engineering
Ship commanders and pilots make life or death decisions based on the information they have at their disposal at the instant a decision is made. One component of that information is whether a radar contact is an enemy or a friend. Various systems exist which try to answer that question based on the characteristics of signals emitted or scattered from the contact. The goal is to maximize the accuracy of identification in order to build trust that when the system tells the operator the contact is...
Topics: Radar targets, Systems engineering
This thesis is a case study that examines missile development and integration for the DDG-1000 program. In particular, it analyzes various programmatic decisions through the lens of systems engineering standards, articles in scholarly journals, established government acquisition guidelines, and case studies of government and commercial engineering projects. Four risks were identified. First, failure to establish top-level requirements that reflect DDG- 1000 specific needs introduces the...
Topics: Systems Engineering, Integration
This thesis presents the development of a methodology for the conceptual design of a medium tonnage warship?s combat system for the Colombian Navy. The methodology is oriented toward the optimization of the operational effectiveness within the naval ship design constraints of weight, electrical power, volume, cost, and risk. The methodology is based on a Design Reference Mission (DRM), which is composed of four Operational Situations (OPSITs) covering antisubmarine warfare, anti-air warfare,...
Topics: Systems engineering, Mechanical engineering
