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Design and analysis of US Navy shipbuilding contract architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Contracting for US Navy ship procurement is complex due several factors such as budgetary and political concerns, sole or near sole source environments, and long lead-time construction. In the current climate of shrinking ...
Cost prediction via quantitative analysis of complexity in U.S. Navy shipbuilding
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
As the sophistication and technology of ships increases, U.S. Navy shipbuilding must be an effective and cost-efficient acquirer of technology-dense one-of-a-kind ships all while meeting significant cost and schedule ...
Automation as a manpower reduction strategy in navy ships
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Since the early 2000's, the US Navy has endeavored to decrease the Total Ownership Cost (TOC) of their ships through a decrease in Operating and Support costs. This led to a large-scale effort by ship program managers to ...
Use of an asymmetric propeller for unmanned underwater vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis describes the development and execution of a test program to determine the suitability of an asymmetric propeller for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV). The idea to utilize a single blade propeller had been ...
Beamforming performance enhancement by adaptive hyperbola array shape estimation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Analysis of U.S. Navy Ice Exercise 2016 (ICEX16) data, through a collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, demonstrated that towed array curvature commonly exhibited heading differences up to 100° and never maintained ...
Resilient acquisition : unlocking high-velocity learning with model-based engineering to deliver capability to the fleet faster
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
As the nation's security needs call for a growing naval fleet, the public-private industrial base for construction and weapon system acquisition will be stressed to perform at a high level of operational excellence. While ...
Using the principles of set-based design to realize ship design process improvement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Set-based design (SBD) is a relatively new complex product development method. Its use has been well researched in the automotive and aerospace industries and, although it requires an upfront investment in resources, it ...
Model testing and computational analysis of a high speed planing hull with cambered planing surface and surface piercing hydrofoils
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
As part of a 2014 thesis, the MIT Innovative Ship Laboratory (iShip) designed a high-speed planing hull form that was based on the Model Variant 5631 developed at the US Navy's David Taylor Model Basin [7] [3] [5]. This ...
Creating a shipboard power simulation tool using electrical load behavior modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Trends in power system simulation that demand computationally-intensive, physics-based models may impede the acquisition of useful results for applications like condition-based maintenance [1], electrical plant load analysis ...
Naval applications of enhanced temperature, vibration and power monitoring
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Navy ships require reliable information regarding their power and mechanical systems in order to perform their mission effectively. While today's shipboard systems are quite sophisticated, there are areas for improvement ...