Modeling the Impact of Technology Transition on Ship Operational Capabilities Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2005.1 Topic No.: N05-053 Topic Title: Modeling the Impact of Technology Transition on Ship Operational Capabilities Proposal No.: N051-053-0909 Firm: SimVentions, Inc. 11903 Bowman Dr Suite 102 Fredericksburg, Virginia 22408-7307 Contact: Lawrence Root Phone: (540) 372-7727 Web Site: www.simventions.com Abstract: The introduction of COTS hardware, commercial standards and commercial development practices offers the opportunity for a rapid and systematic introduction of new capabilities and technology into fleet platforms. Essential ingredients for a shrinking R&D budget while warfighter needs and sustainability of systems are at the highest level in 30 years. Support systems, like the Naval Collaborative Engineering Environment (NCEE) are being stood up to provide the requisite Integrated Digital Environment (IDE) for the design, development, test and configuration control for the spiral development of capability for new ship designs and existing ship modernization. Missing from this collaborative environment is the ability to mix cost, schedule, platform, architecture and mission analysis information to identify capability and technology insertion that will provide optimal solutions for introducing related capabilities within and across platforms. The thrust of this Phase I effort is to study, evaluate and determine the feasibility of developing a prototype technology insertion planning tool that will analyze data from a mission thread operational view architecture and define existing or shortfall capabilities and technologies that will satisfy the warfighter needs. Phase II of this SBIR entails the development and demonstration of the model against a set of criteria defined in the NCEE. Benefits: As a result of this SBIR, SimVentions hopes to define the approach for the development of a technology insertion planning tool and to demonstrate portions of that tool utilizing Base Object Model (BOM) standards, which have been developed in conjunction with the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). The technology insertion planning tool has application to many military, non-military government and commercial applications both sea based and land based. Related areas of application include hardware and software improvements for Naval Air, Subsurface, C4I and Space systems. The planning tool is extensible to Army, Air Force and Marine Corp systems as well as large commercial systems where significant and frequent upgrades and enhancements are anticipated over the expected useable life. Return