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CROSSBOW REPORT (CROSSBOW VOLUME 1_

Includes supplementary material. / Published as received: "volume 1" only. / Distributing naval combat power into many small ships and unmanned air vehicles that capitalize on emerging technology offers a transformational way to think about naval combat in the littorals in the 2020 time frame. Project CROSSBOW is an engineered systems of systems that proposes to use such distributed forces to provide forward presence to gain and maiantain access, to provide sea control, and to project combat power in the littoral regions of the world. Project CROSSBOW is the result of a yearlong, campus-wide, integrated research systems engineering effort involving 40 student researchers and 15 supervising faculty members. This report (Volume I) summarizes the CROSSBOW project. It catalogs the major features of each of the components, and includes by reference a separate volume for each of the major systems (ships, aircraft, and logistics). It also prresents the results of the mission and campaign analysis that informed the trade-offs between these components. It describes certain functions of CROSSBOW in detail through specialized supporting studies. The student work presented here is technologically feasible, integrated and imaginative. The student project cannot by itself provide definitive designs or analyses covering such a broad topic. It does strongly suggest that the underlying concepts have merit and deserve further serious study by the Navy as it transforms itself.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/7279
Date12 1900
CreatorsMuldoon, Richard C., KheeLoon “Richard” Foo, Hoi Kok “Daniel” Siew, Cheow Siang Ng, Victor Yeo, Teng Chye ”Lawrence” Lim, Chun Hock Sng, Keith Jude Ho, David Bauer, Steven B. Carroll, Glen B. Quast, Lance Lantier, Bruce Schuette, Paul R. Darling, The System Engineering & Integration Curriculum Students
ContributorsFranck, Raymond, Parker, Patrick
PublisherMonterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Source SetsNaval Postgraduate School
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, it may not be copyrighted.

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