Design of a Notional Ship for Use in the Development of Early-Stage Design Tools

In this paper, current early-stage design tools are used to produce a notional ship that includes leading-edge weapons and sensors. These new systems stress the capabilities of current design tools and demonstrate the need for tools that can address the increasingly integrated, powerful and heat-producing nature of future payloads. The data produced in this process are shown to be the required input to new design tools under development, thus establishing the link between the existing state of the art and tools that provide more advanced capability necessitated by advances in ship system technology. A framework for a semi-automated template-based system arrangement tool is then presented.