2008
HMS 2008 Proceeding
A quantitative framework to assess capability tradeoffs of the transformable-craft within the seabasing concept
Authors: Stefanos Koullias, Janel Nixon,Dimitri Mavris
Abstract
Seabasing has been identified as a critical future jointmilitary capability for the United States. Thecomplexity of the Seabasing architecture requires acoordinated development effort to address identifiedissues and to create a joint Seabasing system-ofsystems.New technologies that provide updatedcapabilities are needed to make the Seabasing conceptfeasible. It is essential to identify what capabilities arerequired of these new technologies and to quantify theimpact of capability tradeoffs on the Seabasing conceptin order for Seabasing to be considered a viablealternative to current force projection methods. Thispaper presents a quantitative framework to assesscapability tradeoffs of systems on the overall system-ofsystems.The proposed approach is applied to theTransformable-Craft (T-CRAFT) within a Seabasingcontext. An architecture-driven object-orientedapproach is employed to develop a physics-based modelof a Seabasing scenario. Surrogate models are employedto enable rapid capability tradeoffs to enableoptimization of the T-CRAFT.
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