Universal Submarine Electronic Equipment Packaging

Since submarine construction and modernization costs are soaring higher and higher, ways to reduce those costs are continually under review. Historically there are many submarine applications for readily available commercial electronics equipment. However, most commercial electronics equipment will not survive and provide the desired performance in the rigorous submarine environment. The cost of adapting commercial electronics equipment to the submarine environment is very expensive and in some cases prohibitive. The development of an innovative low-cost universal submarine electronics equipment packaging alternative to the repackaging approach currently applied to commercial electronics equipment will provide for cost effective submarine adaptation of commercial electronics equipment. The ultimate goal of the Universal Submarine Electronics Equipment Packaging Engineering Development is to reduce the cost associated with adapting readily available commercial electronics equipment for use in the submarine environment and thereby achieve significant overall submarine construction and modernization cost benefit.