Early Stage Affordability Assessment Tool Development

Early stage naval costing is a very difficult process, owing to the complexity of naval systems, immaturity of technologies, requirements and design volatility, and a challenged industrial base. Despite or even due to this, an integrated approach is desired that can capture both the costs and various benefits of competing ship concepts, from acquisition through operations and sustainment, from directly within the Navy’s software-driven design platform. Galorath Incorporated intends to develop an intelligent interface between a configurable set of cost models and Navy design and concept tools. The connection will facilitate automated costing not only with Galorath’s widely used SEER Hardware and Manufacturing cost systems, but by any costing approach, including ones already in use. Analysts will be enabled with access to sophisticated and appropriately chosen cost estimates directly from within their core ship concept and design platform, consistent with the inclusive design philosophy of those tools.