The increasing level of combat system integration and communications requirements, coupled with shrinking defense budgets and shorter product life cycles, offers many challenges and opportunities in the design and acquisition of new combat systems. This two-day course teaches the systems engineering discipline that has built some of the modern military’s greatest combat and communications systems, using state-of-the-art systems engineering techniques. It details the decomposition and mapping of war-fighting requirements into combat system functional designs. A step-by-step description of the combat system design process is presented emphasizing the trades made necessary because of growing performance, operational, cost, constraints and ever increasing system complexities.
Topics include the fire control loop and its closure by the combat system, human-system interfaces, command and communication systems architectures, autonomous and net-centric operation, induced information exchange requirements, role of communications systems, and multi-mission capabilities.
Engineers, scientists, program managers, and graduate students will find the lessons learned in this course valuable for architecting, integration, and modeling of combat system. Emphasis is given to sound system engineering principles realized through the application of strict processes and controls, thereby avoiding common mistakes. Each attendee will receive a complete set of detailed notes for the class.
Instructor:
Robert Fry worked from 1979 to 2007 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he was a member of the Principal Professional Staff. He is now working at System Engineering Group (SEG) where he is Corporate Senior Staff and also serves as the company-wide technical advisor. Throughout his career he has been involved in the development of new combat weapon system concepts, development of system requirements, and balancing allocations within the fire control loop between sensing and weapon kinematic capabilities. He has worked on many aspects of the AEGIS combat system including AAW, BMD, AN/SPY-1, and multi-mission requirements development. Missile system development experience includes SM-2, SM-3, SM-6, Patriot, THAAD, HARPOON, AMRAAM, TOMAHAWK, and other missile systems.
What You Will Learn:
The trade-offs and issues for modern combat system design.
How automation and technology will impact future combat system design.
Understanding requirements for joint warfare, net-centric warfare, and open architectures
Communications system and architectures
Lessons learned from AEGIS development
Course Outline:
Combat System Overview
-- Combat system characteristics. Functional description for the combat system in terms of the sensor and weapons control, communications, and command and control. Antiair Warfare. Antisurface Warfare. Antisubmarine Warfare. Typical scenarios.
Sensors/Weapons
-- Review of the variety of multi-warfare sensor and weapon suites that are employed by combat systems. The fire control loop is described and engineering examples and tradeoffs are illustrated.
Configurations, Equipment, & Computer Programs
-- Various combinations of system configurations, equipments, and computer programs that constitute existing combat systems.
Command & Control
-- The ship battle organization, operator stations, and human-machine interfaces and displays. Use of automation and improvements in operator displays and expanded display requirements. Command support requirements, systems, and experiments. Improvements in operator displays and expanded display requirements.
Communications
-- Current and future communications systems employed with combat systems and their relationship to combat system functions and interoperability. Lessons learned in Joint and Coalition operations. Communications in the Gulf War. Future systems JTIDS, Copernicus and imagery.
Combat System Development
-- An overview of the combat system engineering process, operational environment trends that affect system design, limitations of current systems, and proposed future combat system architectures. System trade-offs.
Network Centric Warfare and the Future
– Exponential gains in combat system performance as achievable through networking of information and coordination of weaponry
AEGIS Systems Development - A Case Study
-- Historical development of AEGIS. The major problems and their solution. Systems engineering techniques, controls, and challenges. Approaches for continuing improvements such as open architecture. Applications of principles to your system assignment. Changing Navy missions, threat trends, shifts in the defense budget, and technology growth. Lessons learned during Desert Storm. Requirements to support joint warfare and expeditionary forces.
Tuition:
Tuition for this two-day course is $1090 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com.
Robert Fry worked from 1979 to 2007 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he was a member of the Principal Professional Staff. He is now working at System Engineering Group (SEG) where he is Corporate Senior Staff and also serves as the company-wide technical advisor. Throughout his career he has been involved in the development of new combat weapon system concepts, development of system requirements, and balancing allocations within the fire control loop between sensing and weapon kinematic capabilities. He has worked on many aspects of the AEGIS combat system including AAW, BMD, AN/SPY-1, and multi-mission requirements development. Missile system development experience includes SM-2, SM-3, SM-6, Patriot, THAAD, HARPOON, AMRAAM, TOMAHAWK, and other missile systems.
