Integration
Thursday 11th November 2010, 1500hrs–1600hrs
Chaired by Xavier Rolin Preventing New Unmanned System Stovepipes before they Happen: MULDIS (Multi-Drone Information System) System of Systems Architecture Dr Jacek Skowronek, Thales Nederland, Netherlands Unmanned Systems promise to provide additional operational benefits for naval missions, especially in those emerging from the need to maintain freedom of the sea (i.e. anti-piracy missions). They can significantly contribute to a variety of capabilities, including traditional situational awareness and warfare, but also anti-piracy patrolling and convoy protection. However, currently unmanned or autonomous systems are often stovepiped per environment area (air, surface, underwater), or even per system, leading to non-optimal integration architecture between the different unmanned systems, and making their integration with the hosting platform (the naval surface vessel) complex and less efficient. To address these challenges, we propose the MULDIS (Multi-Drone Information System) architecture of multi-UxV System-of-Systems (SoS), aiming at integrating unmanned systems from all environments (air, surface, underwater). The MULDIS SoS includes the vehicles, their payloads, and communication links, as well as an integrated component (located on the hosting vessel) for UxV management, mission planning and execution. The presentation will address the architectural principles underlying the MULDIS architecture (using the DoD Architecture Framework operational and system views), and will address its impact and benefits for new and existing naval mission systems. The MULDIS architecture aims to enable more rapid adoption, and more pervasive use of UxVs in naval platforms, while helping to prevent the emergence of “new unmanned system stovepipes” in naval systems design. Agile Testing and Performance Engineering: The Keys to Successful Software Integration Mr. Edward Beck, Mission Solutions Engineering, LLC, United States In an effort to support evolving Surface Navy requirements, the Aegis Program Office adopted the U.S. Navy’s Open Architecture initiative, designed to deliver increased warfighter capabilities in a shorter time at reduced cost. The Navy Open Architecture initiative formalized the Navy’s desire for a new combat system architecture that would be based on COTS technologies and open standards to provide an unprecedented degree of interoperability and scalability. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) capabilities are expanding. The U.S. Navy is poised to deploy an operational sea-based missile defense system on a fleet of Aegis cruisers and destroyers. The evolving COTS-based solutions have challenged solution providers to meet the real-time and high-performance computing requirements to support the BMD and Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) capabilities of the Aegis system. In response to the Open Architecture integration challenges, Mission Solutions Engineering (MSE), LLC. adopted an ‘Agile Test’ strategy which includes an aggressive set of performance engineering initiatives designed to characterize system performance to meet the real-time BMD and AAW weapons system requirements. This session will highlight the Integration, Test and Performance Engineering activities for MSE, LLC, and the cornerstones that comprise our Agile Test efforts in support of the BMD and AAW capabilities of the Aegis Weapons System. The initiatives are designed to provide earlier detection of software defects, rapid integration of 3rd party software solutions, and better operational performance – all resulting in lower integration costs for the weapons system program. Giving Voice to Navy Needs: Systems Engineering Approach to Optimise On-board Distribution of Audio Communications Devices Mrs Elena Feduzi, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali SpA, Italy The Whole Warship Design Process includes a complex engineering activity which, starting from requirements analysis, is aimed to evaluate the communications needs of crew members in order to define the proper number of necessary voice communications devices and relevant on-board distribution. The complexity of the above mentioned activity is related to the great variety of elements which have to be taken into account in the analysis, such as: Human Factors (e.g. ship activities definition, crew/team dimensioning, lesson-learned from on-board personnel), Combat System and Platform aspects (e.g. general arrangements, physical integration constraints), Communications and Networking system design. On the basis of past experience, it has been recognized the need to address this topic considering concurrently all involved aspects in order to have a global vision of the whole process.
In this composite scenario, how the systems engineering team, performing this activity, can be sure to have considered all the involved matters? This technical paper describes the applied systems engineering approach to manage properly this multidisciplinary activity. A suitable engineering method, to be used throughout design and verification phase, is proposed to provide an easy way to collect and elaborate practical results, offering at the same time the advantage to have a holistic view of the various perspectives. Finally a case study based on the Multipurpose Frigates FREMM Programme will be presented.
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Commander Graeme Roger
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