Recent/Current Initiatives

ONR Analysis Support

The Office of Naval Research Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) program identifies technologies with the potential of a “game changing” leap in capability. The T-Craft was an INP project to develop a high-speed craft capable of transporting tracked and wheeled vehicles from the seabase to the beach. We were tasked by ONR to conduct an analysis of those operational characteristics in the T-Craft most needed by commanders.

• We developed a series of operational scenarios for employment of the T-Craft, ranging from major amphibious operations to humanitarian assistance.
  
  
• After developing hypotheses related to the operational performance of the T-Craft in these scenarios, we used modeling and simulation to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative T-Craft capabilities and employment.
  
  
• Results of this analysis were by ONR in establishing evaluation criteria for eventual construction of a T-Craft prototype.
  
  

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Mike Abler developed scenarios and metrics to evaluate T-Craft operational utility.

Using the Extend® modeling toolkit, Castle Phelps generated data representative of the performance of the T-Craft in the scenarios.