Capability Modeling for Assessing Mission Effectiveness in Surface Ship Concept and Requirements Exploration

This paper describes the development and implementation of mission capability models necessary in the development of a system design framework for Mission, Power and Energy Systems (MPES) in Surface Ship Concept and Requirements Exploration. This system framework includes architectures for ship operations, physical arrangements and for the logical relationship of MPES vital components including simple energy and data models of their function. The mission capability models provide a critical interface between logical and operational architectures, quantifying warfghting capabilities through system measures of performance at specifc capability nodes. The operational architecture queries the capability models representing the behavior at these nodes for necessary operational capabilities and implements them in the warfghting environment. The capability model also provides essential mission and vital component priorities used to guide the alignment of system vital components over time using a dynamic architecture flow optimization (DAFO).