Boat & Combatant Craft Electric Drive Propulsion System

Ockerman Automation Consulting (OAC) and Cardinal Marine Group (CMG) have concluded that U.S. Navy boats and combatant craft configured with an Electric Drive Propulsion System (EDPS) that uses a combination of an electric drive gearbox, APU, high frequency drives, and a high energy density ESS provides the greatest likelihood for meeting all the TLRs in the SBIR Topic N231-039: Boat & Combatant Craft Electric Drive Propulsion System (EDPS). An EDPS configured this way can provide safe, reliable, efficient, and acoustically quiet all-electric operational modes if engineered with acoustic noise emissions, redundancy, and efficiency (i.e., fuel consumption and TOC) as primary considerations. This proposal outlines the approach to develop a preliminary concept design for an EDPS that will meet the requirements set forth in SBIR Topic N231-039: Boat & Combatant Craft Electric Drive Propulsion System. The activities described in the Statement of Work involve investigating commercially available components that are robust, lightweight, suitable for the marine environment, and US-sourced whenever possible. OAC and CMG will integrate these components into the EDPS system design. The Phase I deliverable will be an EDPS preliminary concept design package (Base) and the initial design specifications and capabilities description(Option), both consisting of technical summary reports and sufficient drawings to clearly depict the EDPS design and demonstrate its feasibility.