Systems Engineering - ATI

Combat Systems Engineering
November 16-18, 2010
Chantilly, Virginia
$1590 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
NEW!
"Register 3 or More & Receive $100 00 each
Off The Course Tuition."
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 multimission
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, netcentric
warfare, and open architectures.
• Communications system and 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. Antiair Warfare. Antisurface Warfare.
Antisubmarine Warfare. Typical scenarios.
2. 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.
3. Configurations, Equipment, & Computer
Programs. Various combinations of system
configurations, equipments, and computer
programs that constitute existing combat systems.
4. Command & Control. The ship battle
organization, operator stations, and humanmachine
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.
5. 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.
6. 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 tradeoffs.
7. Network Centric Warfare and the Future.
Exponential gains in combat system performance
as achievable through networking of information
and coordination of weaponry.
8. 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.
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