3.18 Training Support

NAVSEA SOW:

This functional area consists of applying the engineering and analytical disciplines required to ensure that the warfighter and technical support community is provided with adequate instruction including applied exercises resulting in the attainment and retention of knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding the platforms, systems, and warfighting capabilities they operate and maintain.

What:

ITE Team will

• provide physics based modeling services and software tools, applying the engineering and analytical disciplines required to ensure that the warfighter and technical support community is
• provided with comprehensive simulation based instructional environment including applied exercises,
• resulting in the attainment and retention of knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding the platforms, systems, and warfighting capabilities they operate and maintain.

How:

• ITE Team will draw on its experience in supporting NAVSEA (PMS430), NSWC Carderock (Philadelphia) / 3eTI, and ONR in creating and adapting physics-based modeling techniques for the design, verification and validation of designs. The Team has current work on-going with NSWC and ONR and its Ship Smart System Design (S3D) program creating a advanced design modeling environment for Advanced Electrical Power (AEP) and Electrically Re configurable Ships (ERS) in support of the DD(X) and other emerging electric ship programs.
  
  
• ITE Team will use physics modeling and engineering analysis services to complement the engineering efforts of NSWC and their support contractors as described below. This can obviate the requirement that NSWC purchase, maintain software or train personnel in modeling techniques, though they may. ITE Team can provide these services, if required.
  
  
• ITE Team work can be provided on-site or, often more effectively, the work can be performed by ITE Team off-site as was done for the LPD17 Program where nine major vital systems were modeled and analyzed using ITE Team services, or where the NSWC HPAC model was built off-site.
  
  
• ITE Team is the only team that has converted and demonstrated the use of actual physics analysis flowsheets used for HM&E system verification of LPD17, DDG51 systems into a full ship simulation for Human Systems Integration (HSI) objectives of embedded crew training.
  
  
  • Under a NAVSEA PMS430 SBIR Ph2, Team created a Total Platform Training System the provided a real-time model in first principle physics for engineering and damage control systems train tied to EOSS and CSOSS objectives.
    
    
  • Under a NSWC / 3eTI contract, Team created a Part-Task Operator Training System for an FFG7 class High Pressure Air Compressor (HPAC). A physics model of the HPAC unit was created to support testing the interface to the ships ICAS equipment. The same model was give an instructor station and "operating panel" for crew operator / maintainer training. it would be possible to model the entire ship using this same technology.
    
    
• Please see a description of COTS training systems software at SIMSMART TPTS
  
  
• The captured physics models that were used to create the real-time simulation for engineering and damage control training were originally created for ship HM&E design analysis. These models can also be used for:
  • battle decision aids,
  • distance support and
  • future ShipAlt modernization.