Industrialization of Early Stage Design via Simulation Data Science, Platform and the Cloud

摘要

Today, it is clear that some of the Navy's new-surface combatant designs will largely be driven by the much more power-hungry weapons and sensors of the future. The ship platform solution must be an optimized combination of power generation, conversion, control and another new variable: energy storage. At the same time, the Navy needs to engineer, model, and simulate in accordance with real-world scenarios to ensure power is available for the ultimate combat effectiveness. Interoperability with the fleet and new fleet assets such as unmanned vehicles present both an opportunity and a challenge. The scale of the problem is intractable as HM&E architecture and topology options in the thousands, combined with operational load cases can potentially produce billions of design and mission scenarios to evaluate for a single platform. This paper will explore the implications of the advent of recent technologies that can help to drive even greater innovation and collaboration across the Navy R&D community including: Simulation Data Science, Cloud and platform-based computing. Simulation Data Science is an enabler for innovation. It is a family of applications and technologies to capture and manage information, standardize simulation processes, leverage data analytics, & integrate the practice of simulation into the enterprise.