Simulating Data for the Development of Decision-Making Systems

United States Navy military shipboard equipment designers have utilized of military rated components in their designs together with the application of military specifications to ensure survivability during conflict. These designs were subject to longdevelopment cycles and unique point designs with the associated high costs.Due to the rapid growth in commercial electronics, and especially in computing, commercial solutions to shipboard equipment designs have become appealing. Little growth in the defense budget coupled with mandated acquisition reform has led to newshipboard equipment designs with increasing application of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solutions. The positive potential to the Navy in utilizing COTS equipment is enormous. These include the ability to access state-of-the-art technology solutions inits surface ships and submarines coupled with avoiding costly point designs to military specifications. To realize the advantages of utilizing COTS equipment, the uncertainty in understanding the response of COTS equipment to shock loads must be addressed.This will help ensure that the COTS systems will continue to support the war fighter during conflict. Our Phase I research will identify and develop concepts to address and reduce these uncertainties.An improved analytical modeling capability resulting from this research and associated COTS equipment certification process may be used by the commercial shipbuilding industry. This research will allow the evaluation of new designs and associated risksrelated to vibration and noise control as well as dynamic loads encountered due to wave slamming, sea keeping, grounding, docking loads and collisions at sea.