Multi-Scale, Interdisciplinary Systems Analysis for Naval Platforms

As the complexity of the systems aboard the new classes of ships being commissioned by the United States Navy has increased, the capability of the Navy's system analysis tools to analyze these systems has struggled to keep up. This has driven an increase in cost, technical risk, and longer schedules on these new acquisition programs. In order to ameliorate this situation, the authors of this paper suggest unifying the Navy's system analysis capability around the Leading Edge Architecture for Prototyping Systems (LEAPS), a data format mandated by the Naval Sea Systems Command. In this paper, the authors describe a network-based systems model for ship systems and demonstrate how a system modeled in this way can be expressed to load-flow analysis software, a time-domain electrical analysis code, a ship synthesis tool, and a deactivation-diagram-based systems vulnerability code.