ONR High Speed Craft Development: ONR High Speed Craft Development IHS / SNAME Joint Dinner Meeting 2 Dec 2004 Scott Littlefield ONR 33X (703) 588-2358 littles@onr.navy.mil


Slide2: “To plan, foster and encourage scientific research in recognition of its paramount importance as related to the maintenance of future naval power and the preservation of national security.” Public Law 588 (1946) Naval Research Mission


Experimental Ship Programs: Experimental Ship Programs


ONR Programs – Small Fast Ships and Craft: ONR Programs – Small Fast Ships and Craft Delivering a complete vessel (from large to small): X-Craft (including HDV-100) Hybrid Small Waterplane Area Craft / Lifting body technology (Sea Flyer) High Speed Cargo Craft (Sea Coaster) Small Watercraft Demonstrator Unmanned Sea Surface Vessel High Speed Variant Low Speed Variant Delivering designs or component technology: Composite High Speed Vessel Composite Special Operations Craft High Speed, Heavy Lift Shallow Draft Craft (aka V-ALT); may lead to a complete vessel demo. Agile Port and High Speed Ship Technology Project Endeavor Other Programs: Advanced Electrical Systems (including electric propulsion), Hydrodynamics, Advanced Structural Materials, Coatings, Environmental Quality . . .


How did we get here?: How did we get here? Customer Pull: Recent Navy interest in small, fast ships Seabasing Concepts Congressional Push: Additional funding for small, fast ships and related technology


Navy vs. Commercial- What’s the same? What’s different? - : Navy vs. Commercial - What’s the same? What’s different? - High Speed XX X Good Seakeeping X X High Payload Fraction X X Survivable XX ~ Low Signature XX No Shallow Draft / Beachable XX No R&D Budget Large Small Technical Risk Tolerance Medium Low Navy Commercial


Navy Investment Leading to a Commercial Sale: Navy Investment Leading to a Commercial Sale Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract Worth More Than $25 Million to Deliver Two Crew Boats to Mexico Vessels Will Be Used to Transport People and Cargo to Oil Rigs BALTIMORE, Oct. 18 / PRNewswire-FirstCall / -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) was recently awarded a contract valued at more than $25 million to perform detailed design, construction, test and delivery of two Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) crew transport vessels that will provide service to Mexico's national oil company, PEMEX. The Lockheed Martin design is based on its SLICE(R) Small Waterplane Area hull form. The contract, awarded to Lockheed Martin by Hoteleria y Servicios Petroleros, S.A. de C.V. (HSP), calls for the delivery of two SWATH crew transport vessels that can safely and swiftly transport people and limited cargo from Ciudad del Carmen to the Campeche Basin Oil Field 90 miles offshore . . .


High Speed Craft Technical Issues: NAVY 3,000 tons 50 kts ARMY 10,000 tons 70 kts High Speed Craft Technical Issues Overarching Need Maintain useful payload fraction and range while increasing speed Propulsion Metrics: Power Density Efficiency Technologies: Engine / Drive train Mechanical drive vs. electric drive Propulsor choice Hull Forms Metrics: Minimize drag (friction, form, and wave making) Technologies: Optimize hull form Control emersion (dynamic lift) Fluid drag reduction Hull Materials Metrics: Strength vs. weight Cost Corrosion resistance Maintainability Technologies: High strength steel Aluminum Composites Coatings Ride Control Metrics: Stable, smooth Controllable / adjustable Technologies: Environmental sensing Controllers and Algorithms Control surfaces and actuators


Slide9: Displacement Monohulls Displacement Multihulls SWATH & Variants Planning Hulls SES Hovercraft Hydrofoils Lifting Body & Hybrids Speed Seakeeping Payload Range 25-40knots SOA Hull Form Versus Performance Features ~50 knots 14-30 knots ~45 knots 60-65 knots 45-55 knots 30-70 knots 30-50+ knots Good at Speed with Ride Control Excellent all Around High Accelerations Good with Ride control Moderate with Ride control Excellent at High Speed Good Low Moderate Low Low Low TBD Good High Trans-Ocean Trans-Ocean Excellent Trans-Ocean Short Range, Size dependent Short Range, Size dependent Short Range, Size dependent Short Range, Size dependent


Slide10: Purpose - Support future concept development of Littoral Combat Ship by: Concept development for 50 kt craft. Evaluate one form of mission modularity. ABS rules development for High Speed Craft-Naval Craft. Science & Technology: Hydrodynamic experimentation (experimental data suite) Measure fluid flow, motions, dynamic loads, stresses, and speed/power requirements. At sea experimentation with advanced mission systems. X-Craft Delivery Spring 2005 X-Craft DIMENSIONS Length (overall): 262’/79.9m Length (at waterline): 240’/73m Beam: 72’/21.05m Draft (scantling): 12’/3.6m Full Load Displacement: 1150 T Light Ship Displacement: 820 T PERFORMANCE Maximum Speed (Combat Load*): 50+ kts Maximum Speed (S/S 4): 40+ kts Maximum Speed (Diesels only): 20+ kts Shaft Power (ISO): 2x 33.6KHP Range: 4000 NM


Slide11: Launch/Recovery/RORO Ramp Mission Modules X-Y Crane Elevator X-Craft


X-Craft: X-Craft Stern Ramp Waterjet Firescout Stern View


Sea Flyer: Purpose: Large scale technology demonstration for lifting body hull forms and advanced ride control systems. Possible roles in drag reduction research, high-speed training, and operational demonstrations. Sea Flyer


Slide14: Purpose: Demonstration platform for evaluating the commercial and military potential for high speed lifting bodies combined with Deep-V hull forms Science & Technology: Test advanced ride control system at high-speed High speed propulsion system evaluation (surface drives and controllable pitch propeller on center line) Evaluate synergistic effects of “Serter Deep-V” monohull and “Blended Wing Lifting Body” Drag Reduction - fluid tested on lifting body Length: 100 Feet FLD: 98 LT Propulsion: 4 Propulsion Diesels Propulsors: 2 Surface Drives and 1 Controllable pitch propeller Speed: 50 knots in calm seas in full load condition 40 knots in Sea State 4 Seakeeping: Operational through S/S 4; survivable through S/S 5 Specifications: HDV- 100


Slide15: Purpose: Explore hybrid lifting body and other ship hull form technologies in the smaller displacements needed for rapid response craft. Explore Hybrid propulsion. Science & Technology: Practical hybrid configurations in the 34 to 50 foot length regime Speeds from 35 to 60+ knots Variety of high-performance technologies to gain insight into the hydrodynamics of small high-performance craft. Combined diesel-electric/diesel-mechanical propulsion alternatives Alternate lift augmentation devices Improved surface drive propulsors Specifications for SDV 45: Length: 50 Feet Beam: 14 Feet Displacement: 12 LT (full load) Draft 3.8 Feet Propulsion: Diesel/Elect. 2X700 HP Propulsor: Surface Piercing Propellers (2) Speed: 45 knots in calm seas @ full load Seakeeping: Superior motions from zero to full speed through SS 3 Small Rapid Response Watercraft Demonstrator (SWD)


Slide16: CCD0TT Purpose: Characterize the hydrodynamic performance, structural loading, and other related features of various advanced monohulls, lifting body and monohull/lifting body hybrid hull forms Science & Technology: Plans: Advanced Lifting Body Research Actual SEA FLYER loads from at-sea tests Innovative propulsion concepts Advanced ride control systems and force effectors Hull design paradigms for hybrid forms CFD predictions for realistic configurations Computer simulation models and tools Structural analysis of lifting body, struts, attachments and impacts on parent hulls. Advanced hull and lifting body scientific studies. Innovative propulsion, drag reduction, and powering efficiency alternatives and technologies. Innovative ride control systems approaches, methodologies, and technologies. Modeling and analysis tools and methods. Cpd Baseline Optimized Cavitation speed = 47.3kts


Slide17: Purpose: Investigate and validate technology to support development of a high speed cargo craft Science & Technology: Speed/Power relationships Sea Keeping (motions & accelerations) Structural Response & Integrity Approach: Design 100 ft air cavity test vessel Test & Evaluate at sea Naval Relevance/Impact: Novel hull form High speed vessel Very shallow draft – potentially beachable Status: Construction Complete, undergoing trials. Sea Coaster High Speed Cargo Craft (HSCC)


Slide18: Purpose: Demonstrate the capability of a new hull form technology to enable logistic support directly to shore Advanced hull form with unique contra-rotating propeller/water jet propulsion Adaptation of SEA SLICE hull form technology Variable geometry hull form: SWATH mode, landing craft mode, intermediate mode enabled by a movable payload deck Large-scale demonstrator craft Design Features for 1/2 Scale Demonstrator: V-ALT Advanced Littoral Transport Length: 148 Feet Beam: 54 Feet Displacement: 469 LT (full load) Payload: 60 LT Barge Draft: 3 Feet SWATH Draft: 11.5 Feet Speed: 20 Knots Propulsion: Diesel Direct Propulsors: Twin Contra-rotating propellers and twin water jets Seakeeping: Operable in SS 5 (SWATH mode) VariCraft Concept (V-ALT)


Slide19: CCD0TT CCD0TT Agile Port and High Speed Ship Technologies Center for the Commercial Development of Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT) Purpose: Develop enabling technologies for maritime related Defense Transportation Systems while improving the productivity of defense related commercial shipping and inter-modal transfer/support systems High Speed Trimaran (HST) Science & Technology: Model test and evaluation of advanced axial flow water jets Automated design optimization of multi-hull vessels Large, high speed trimaran (HST) technology development Concept design development of Very Stable Mobile Ocean Platform Magnetic levitation freight transport system, port to inland port Operational Concept Document (OCD) and analysis for military deployment through Agile Port System with inland port.


Slide20: Purpose: Understand and demonstrate purpose-built Unmanned Surface Vehicles, with a focus on HM&E technologies, Optimize speed, payload, range and seakeeping characteristics, Demonstrate an automated launch and retrieval system for USVs. Science & Technology: Determine performance envelope of purpose-built unmanned craft Approach: Evaluate trade-space for USVs Design, build and conduct at-sea testing of two purpose-built vehicles. Naval Relevance/Impact: MCM / ASW Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Status: Two prototypes under construction for testing in 2005. Unmanned Sea Surface Vessel [USSV]


Propulsion: Propulsion


USS Jupiter- 1913 Early example of Electric Drive: USS Jupiter- 1913 Early example of Electric Drive


Slide23: Enable Transformational Weapons Systems Electromagnetic Guns Shipboard Laser Systems Advanced Sensors Improve Survivability Rapid and anticipatory Reconfiguration of Power and systems Reduce Signatures Eliminates propulsion gear noise Enables lower speed propellers Enables silent watch capabilities Reduce Life Cycle Costs Reduction in Number of Prime Movers Significantly Greater Fuel Efficiency Eliminate high maintenance hydraulic systems Why Is the Navy Going Electric?


Slide24: Small Combatant Large Amphib Large Combatant Electric Warship Propulsion Ship Service Weapons & Sensors (portion of ship service) Today’s Combatants Future Combatant Power Attack Mission Multiple Lasers or EM Guns Area Protection Lasers TBMD Advanced Radar Ship Defense Directed Energy Weapons Expected Growth in Power Requirements


Ship Service Fuel Cell Programs: Ship Service Fuel Cell Programs 625kW Molten Carbonate Ship Service Power Fuel Cell System using Diesel Fuel 50% EFFICIENT 500kW Integrated Fuel Processor (IFP) compatible with PEM Fuel Cell, using Diesel Fuel 37% EFFICIENT 37 – 50% EFFICIENT QUIET OPERATION LOW ATMOSPHEREIC EMISSIONS


Slide26: High Temperature Superconducting AC Synchronous Motor


Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator (AESD) Rolls Royce - AWJ21 Craft Configuration: Advanced Electric Ship Demonstrator (AESD) Rolls Royce - AWJ21 Craft Configuration Hydroacoustically Quiet Hull Form Design Parameters LOA = 133’, LWL = 130’, BOA = 14.5’ Displacement = 107 LT Diesel / Electric 500HP per Shaft x2 16 knots Required for T&E Quiet Battery/Diesel Power System: Large Battery Energy Storage System Quiet Diesel Loiter/Charging System AWJ21 Waterjet


What’s Next?: What’s Next?


Sea Basing!: Sea Basing! MPF(F) Advance Base High Speed Connector (HSC) High Speed Connector (HSC) Improved Shore (Pier, Causeway, etc.) LCAC Truck LCAC HSC (RO,RO) “It’s all about throughput”


Questions?: Questions?