Summary:

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 three-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.

Aegis System Overview

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.
• The role of subsystem in combat system operation.
• How automation and technology impact combat system design.
• Understanding requirements for joint warfare, net-centric warfare, and open architectures
• Lessons learned from AEGIS development

Course Outline:

1. 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. Anti-air Warfare. Anti-surface Warfare. Anti-submarine Warfare.
2. Sensors
-- Review of the variety of multi-warfare sensor systems, their capability, operation, management, and limitations.
3. Weaponry
– Weapon system suites employed by the AEGIS combat system and their capability, operation, management, and limitations. Basics of missile design and operation.
4. Fire Control Loops
– What the fire control loop is and how it works, its vulnerabilities, limitations, and system battlespace.
5. Engagement Control
– Weapon control, planning, and coordination.
6. Tactical Command and Control
– Human-in-the-loop, system latencies, and coordinated planning and response.

7. Communications

-- Current and future communications systems employed with combat systems and their relationship to combat system functions and interoperability.

8. Combat System Development

-- Overview of the combat system engineering and acquisition processes.

9. Current AEGIS Missions and Directions

-- Performance in low-intensity conflicts. Changing Navy missions, threat trends, shifts in the defense budget, and technology growth.

10. Network-Centric Operation and Warfare

– Net-centric gain in warfare, network layers and coordination, and future directions.

Tuition:

Tuition for this three-day course is $1690 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.