1. SD-8 Summary of Activities 2009-2012
SD-8 Naval Ships Panel
11 January 2013

2. What Direction Should SD-8 Panel Take?

3. Mission Statement of the Joint SNAME-ASNE Ship Design Committee
The mission of the Ship Design Committee is to advance the art, science and practice of ship design in the development and construction of naval ships, commercial ships and advanced ships and craft, and the multi-disciplines allied thereto.

4. Naval Ships Panel, SD-8
Advance development of a more effective standard Naval Ship Design process from requirements determination through delivery of the lead ship
Foster continuous improvements through more investment in and implementation of ship design and engineering technologies
Provide a forum to discuss community issues and challenges in order to develop a shared perspective between Government - Industry - Academia
Offer a forum for the transfer of "best practices" and "lessons learned" between generations of naval ship designers
Encourage networking amongst Government - Industry - Academia ship design engineers and other stakeholders in the Naval Ship development process
Promote technical papers and other forms of knowledge exchange on Naval Ship Design

5. SD-8 Kickoff Meeting Under Leadership of Fidel Sanchez
15 Apr 2009

6. SD-8 Workshop (Top Six)
Navy as Systems Integrator
Integration: What does it mean?
Identify key activities/roles/processes
Identify role of primes/subcontractors and contracting vehicles
Identify organization of CPTs
Identify roadblocks to communications
Identify ways to bridge the gap between ship/mission system designers and fleet expectations
Ship specs and design criteria
Mr. Potato Head Ship
Control of interfaces
Allocation of KPPs
DDG-1000 lessons learned
3. Other
DDG-51 Flight Upgrade Study
Basic Research
Propulsion and Electrical Systems Way Ahead
Cost Estimating and Modeling
Moving away from weight-based estimating
Software
5. Issues Impacting the Fleet
Equipment variability and training impacts
Mission System Complexity
Improving weight estimating and control
6. Continuing Ed & Professional Dev of
Ship Design Engineers
Combat System/HM&E/Manning/Training/Logistics training across platforms – Subs/Carriers/Oilers
Leverage Ship Design Process Models to develop design concepts
CLASSRON tours
Use case development with fleet participation
Requirements Development and Flow to 3 digit SWBS – Is NVR sufficient?
Manning Concept Development Modeling and integration with ship design models
2. Total Ownership Cost Reductions
Maintenance/Modernization/Cleanliness
Role and gaps in requirements
Role of objective architecture in ship design
Ship Arrangements
Manning and crew automation
Everyone has a role: What key decisions need to be made at all levels?
Control and development of physical models – how and why the systems actually dynamically work together
Service Life Allowance, e.g., Pricing Future Options
Identify potential cost savings/process improvement opportunities.
NAVSEA/ONR/CISD Ship design process efforts
Requirements Development Processes: Can we drive common specifications and common specification development processes across surface platforms?
3. Some cost saving practices in new construction shipyards can be at odds with the goal of reducing life cycle costs, especially when the design practices make it difficult for the crew to maintain and modernize equipment. Try to identify those practices.
7. Ship Design Tools Investment Plan
Improving weight estimating and control
Architectural tools such as Ship Arrangements
LEAPS early stage design product model
Integrated Structural Design Environment
Systems Engineering tools for uncertainty, complexity, risk, costing, etc.
Identify needs and establish priorities 6

7. Issues for Consideration
How can we achieve cross-industry representation on this panel?
How can we collaborate with other SNAME and ASNE panels?
How can we support the development of future ship designers?
What gap’s exist in ship design knowledge library that we can help close?
How to sustain naval ship design capability, with limited new designs?
How can we reduce the so-called “customer factor”?

8. Reducing Total Ownership Costs by Improving the Naval Ship Design Process
Technical seminar/workshop on March 26, 2010, at the U.S. Naval Academy
A key output from this workshop was a draft paper summarizing our findings and recommendations to NAVSEA 05 and OPNAV N86
Paper published in ASNE Naval Engineers Journal

9. Summary
Ship design community needs to be better aware of fleet technical and logistics issues
Emphasize Maintenance & Modernization Needs in Early Stage Design & Carry the Emphasis Along to Later Design Phases
The waterfront including the shipyards feel strongly that the ship design and construction ignores too many areas that adversely impact schedules, costs and the ability to care for and modernize our navy surface ships. 
We can do better.

10. What’s SD-8 Doing Next?
Follow up SD-8 Workshop at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, MD) in March 2011
Continue to explore the issue of life-cycle cost reductions
Begin to explore the question, “What are some ways we can develop surface combatant engineers when we are doing relatively little surface combatant design and engineering?”
Opportunity to hear about DDG-51 Flight III Upgrade Study
Update to SD-8 Report on Life-Cycle Costs
Interested? Contact me at
Bob Keane has mentioned to me something that one of his mentors once told him, “It’s all about follow through.” I think he’s right. We’re still exploring ways to follow through with some of the recommendations we made at the last workshop. Some ideas we’re considering is looking at some level of specifications to improve the control of arrangements and distributed systems to facilitate maintenance and modernization. We’ve also thought about leveraging some of the work done here and determine where in the ship design process can we help plan for better maintenance and modernization. We know we have a problem with life-cycle costs. SD-8 has taken one step in trying to better understand this problem and come up with some recommendations. We’d like to continue with this them at our next workshop and get more feedback from the wider community on what we can do to reduce life-cycle costs. Earlier I mentioned the importance that I believe professional societies haves, especially today. If you’re interested in helping please contact me.

11. SD-8 Navy Ships, SD-4 Arrangements & SD-10 Hull Form Design Panels Seminar/Workshop, March 30-31, 2011
At Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD
Working Group One - Reducing Total Ownership Costs (TOC): Led by RADM Bill Wyatt (Ret).
Working Group Two -“Ship as a “Truck”: Led by Dr. Norbert Doerry, Technical Director, Technology Group, NAVSEA
Working Group Three - Contract/Detail Design: Led by Jason Thomas, Alion Science and Technology; explore improvements for conveying design across contractual boundary and discuss flexibility left for shipbuilder during Detail Design.

12. Workshops on Real Options & Application to Naval Force Structure Planning and Ship Design, Oct & Dec 2011
Setting the stage for real options theory in ship design and naval force structure planning by Dr. Norbert Doerry, NAVSEA 05T
Introduction to Real Options Theory by LT Jon Page, USN, PEO Ships
Introduction to DSTO and Operations Research/Navy Force Structure efforts by Dr. Kurt Brinschwitz, Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), Maritime Operations Division, Australia
SERC (Systems Engineering Research Center) efforts in Real Options Theory, Stevens Institute of Technology

13. Evaluating Rapid Ship Design Environment (RSDE) Toolset for Future Frigate Conceptual Design Studies, Study Guide for, 2012
RSDE is an automated high-end toolset that integrates design definition tools with physics-based analysis tools, and uses an enlarged “design space” to account for uncertainty, both in the design and in the requirements.
RSDE improves early stage design through visualization of the trade space and generation of many feasible ship design concepts.
RSDE allows user to analyze the space of designs for a large number of disciplines at a higher level of fidelity, with results forming behavior objects for multi-disciplinary synthesis, and visualize the design space.
This capability leads to an optimized and balanced concept design in a much shorter period of time.

14. RSDE - Product Architecture
Rapid Ship Design Environment
GUI
apid Ship Design Environment
Design Data Sets
Behavior ObjectZ
Execution Engine
Multi-Discipline Optimization
Design Space Exploration
ASSET
Synthesis
Hullform Gen/Trans
SHCP-L Stability
ISA
Arrangement
IHDE
Hydro
LEAPS API and Toolkits
SHCP-L Tkt
Hulltran Tkt
Hullgen Tkt
BehaviorMan Tkt
LEAPS Database
RSDE SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS ARE SHOWN HERE IN THE PRODUCT
ARCHITECTURE CHART AND ARE COMPRISED OF A COMBINATION OF
FUNCTIONAL (HULLFORM TRANSFORMATION/GENERATION,
STABILITY, ARRANGEMENTS AND HYDRODYNAMICS) AND INTERFACE
DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WILL ALLOW USERS TO BUILD AND EXECUTE
INTEGRATED SUITES OF APPLICATIONS INTERACTIVELY AND CHOOSE
THOSE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE TO A SPECIFIC
DESIGN EFFORT. THE FUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS INCLUDE THOSE
BEING DEVELOPED BY RSDE, AS WELL AS APPLICATIONS
DEVELOPED ELSEWHERE. THE PROCESS FOR ADDING CAPABILITIES
TO ASSET OR RSDE IN MOST CASES USES THE FOLLOWING
PROCESS. FIRST, THE CAPABILITY IS DELIVERED AS A LEAPS
TOOLKIT, WHICH CONSISTS OF THE FUNCTIONAL PORTION OF THE
SOFTWARE WITHOUT A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE. THE SECOND
STEP IS TO DEVELOP AN APPLICATION THAT INCLUDES A GRAPHICAL
USER INTERFACE THAT IS PART OF ASSET OR RSDE THAT UTILIZES
THE FUNCTIONS IN THE LEAPS TOOLKIT.
Structure
Geometry
Hullform Geometry
Arrangement Geometry
Subdivision
Geometry
Stability
Behaviors
Seakeeping
Behaviors
Resistance
Behaviors
Structures
Behaviors
Flooding
Behaviors
GEML Kernel
NURBS
Math
Radial Basis
Math
Kriging
Math
Neural Net
Math

15. Design Space Exploration
From…
Limited Investigation of relatively few Design Points
To…
Full Investigation of Concepts throughout the Design Space
HPC Enables Exhaustive Exploration by:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RSDE SUITE OF TOOLS IS DEFINED
BY OVERARCHING USE CASES (UC), WHICH DEFINE
REQUIREMENTS FOR SEVERAL SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS (SA).
THE FIRST USE CASE IS GENERATING A LARGE SPACE OF
FEASIBLE SHIP DESIGNS, AT THE CONCEPT LEVEL OF DETAIL
UTILIZING NEW SHIP GEOMETRY SOFTWARE WHICH CAN
TRANSFORM/MORPH EXISTING HULL FORMS IN THE NAVY’S
ASSET SHIP CONCEPT SYNTHESIS TOOL OR GENERATE “FROM
SCRATCH” NEW HULLFORMS AT THE CONCEPT LEVEL. THE
SECOND USE CASE IS EXPLORING AND EVALUATING THE
SPACE OF DESIGNS (AND EXCURSIONS FROM THAT SPACE)
FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS
DISCIPLINES, WITH THE RESULTS FORMING THE BASIS OF
“LOOK-UP” TABLES OR RESPONSE SURFACES OR
“METAMODELS” FOR THE EXCURSIONS THAT WILL BE
REQUIRED IN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION PROCESS.
and Visualization
Generating The Space
Exploring The Space
Evaluating The Space

16. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
To gain insight and experience with the Rapid Ship Design Environment (RSDE) toolset and
Demonstrate how RSDE improves the early stage requirements development process through a conceptual study of a notional future frigate.

17. WHERE WE NEED TO GO
According to an old proverb, if we do not change our direction, we might end up where we are headed.

18. HAIL AND FAREWELL
Congratulations and thanks to Fidel Sanchez for his outstanding leadership of SD-8!!
Welcome and best wishes to Tim Mierzwicki and Shari Hannapel, the new co-chairs of SD-8
Full speed ahead