Cdr. F. Troiano

Italian Navy General Staff – Surface Ships Design Office

F. Perra, A.Guagnano

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali - Research and New Products Area

The concept phase of the naval ship design process is traditionally based on experience, on the balanced application of project constraints, on empirical rules and experimental information, and on analytic insights into the technologies that are to be considered for the new warship. However, a key factor for developing successful solutions consists in understanding the missions the ship will undertake as well as defining mission success measures early in the design process: the correct operational requirements can then be defined, together with the measure of how they affect the overall mission effectiveness.

This paper describes the outcomes of the research project conducted within the wider framework of ASNET (Advanced Simulation for Naval Engineering Techniques) by a collaborative team of researchers from the Italian Navy and Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), supported by the Genoa University Polytechnic School, developing a “mission-focus” tool, named Operational Evaluation Model, to investigate operational effectiveness trade-offs analysis in the preliminary naval ship design.