Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 2: Technology (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Accordingly, the Panel on Technology attempted to identify those technologies that will be of greatest importance to the future operations of the naval forces and to project trends in their development out to the year 2035. The primary objective of the panel was to determine which are the most critical technologies for the Department of the Navy to pursue to ensure U.S.
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MAJOR TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION AREAS The panel identified more than 100 important technologies that will form the technology base for the future naval forces and grouped them into the following nine major application areas (Figure ES.1~: Computation, Information and communications, Sensors, Automation, Human performance, Materials, Power and propulsion, Environments, and Enterprise processes.
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The success of the smart ship project rests on its ability to empower ship commanders, reduce cycle time, and take timely advantage of the latest technologies. From the more than 100 technology areas important to future naval operations, the panel has extracted several specific technologies that will likely have the biggest impact on changing the way the Department of the Navy conducts operations in the future and that, because of their importance, deserve careful attention in the future.
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TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT TO SUPPORT FUTURE CAPABILITY For each of the more than 100 technologies identified in this report, the Panel on Technology attempted to determine whether the Department of the Navy must invest heavily in the future because of unique applications such as torpedoes, stealth for ships and submarines, and unmanned underwater vehicles or whether the commercial sector could be expected to drive future developments, such as those in computers, software, and materials, in which case the Department of the Navy must be a smart and active user that adapts the commercial technologies to naval forces' use. The world of technology is advancing at a blistering pace.
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Finally, the Department of the Navy should capitalize on the emerging technological opportunities described in this report, even in the face of severe budget constraints and reduced manpower. To do so demands prioritization of goals, significant changes in the way the Department of the Navy conducts business, tradeoffs between modernization and infrastructure, and the use of the technologies identified in this report, not only to ensure the dominant warfighting capability of naval forces, but also to reduce the size and cost of the infrastructure.
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· Naval operations are increasingly dependent on enhanced sensor data to provide situational awareness, target designation, weapon guidance, conditionbased maintenance, platform automation, personnel health and safety monitoring, and logistic management. The Department of the Navy should provide continuing support of sensor technology for areas critical to future naval operations.
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· Direct electric drive for ships and submarines offers unique advantages for the future naval forces in the areas of reduced volume, modular flexible propulsion units, lower acoustic signatures, enhanced survivability, and the enabling of new capabilities. The power and propulsion technologies of efficient gas turbine propulsion units, modular rare-earth permanent magnetic motors, and power control modules have matured to the point that the Department of the Navy should place a high priority on the development of new all-electric ships with the associated drive, power-conditioning, and distribution systems.
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maintain technical leadership in noncommercial areas of naval importance, such as weapons, sensors, oceanography, and naval platforms; and (3) continue to support vigorously those areas of fundamental, long-term basic research, primarily conducted at universities, from which new understanding and new naval technologies evolve.
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