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Dago · 06-06-2006, 02:09 AM

From what I gathered above, the main concepts behind reduction in manpower form other legacy platforms to the new thershold requirment for the LCS are as followed;

Smart Ship
Fleet Optimal Manning Experiment (OME)
Composite Sailor
Technology Leverage
Workload Transfer

Smart Ship - A combination of technology based and policy initiatives. The YORKTOWN was the first ship to incorporate SMART SHIP and other Ticos are undergoing various upgrade initiatives to reduce manpower while still retaining the same combat effectiveness.

SMART SHIP "CORE TECHNOLOGIES"

Integrated Bridge System (IBS): automated piloting, ship’s course and track analysis with radar and chart overlay, including collision avoidance.
Integrated Condition Assessment System (ICAS): automated condition-based maintenance recorder for main propulsion and auxiliary equipment; digital information maintained on fiber optic LAN.
Damage Control Quarters (DCQ): automated damage control management system providing information and communication throughout the ship on the fiber optic LAN.
Machinery Control System (MCS): automated digital propulsion and electrical plant control using signals passed via the fiber optic LAN.
Fuel Control System (FCS): automated digital control of ship’s fuel transfer system.
Wireless Internal Communication System (WICS): individual ship’s company personal communications or near the ship.
Fiber Optic Ship Wide Area Network (FO SWAN): fiber optic LAN hosting the above listed core technologies (vice the WICS) utilizing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and being IT 21 compliant

However, the majority of reduction was primarily through policy initiatives as opposed to purely from technology introductions. Such as changing watch standing philosophy, combining watch stations, and developing the flex team approach to watch standing. (Example from implementation
(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/s...smartship.html)

As a result from various initiatives;

- Bridge Core watch reduced - 5% (Policy)
- Bridge watch reduced - 2 (Technology)
- Combat Core watch reduced - 8 (Policy)
- Combat watch reduced - 1 (Technology)
- Engineering Core Watch - 3 (Policy)
- Engineering watch reduced - 4 (Technology)
- Damage Control watches reduced - 13 (Technology)
- Training Department added + 5 (Policy and Technology)

Based upon the Smart Ship Project Assessment, the USS YORKTOWN met all mission requirements laid out by the Navy, reduced annual operating costs by $2.8 million, and developed long-term benefits in terms of improved morale and retention of quality personnel. Total weekly workload was reduced by 9,000 hours or 30%. "The Smart Ship Project has demonstrated that shipboard workload reductions are possible while maintaining combat readiness and safety with significant net positive return on your investment." Specific results are provided in sections III, IV and V herein.

Baseline improvements from Smart Ship concept.

Fleet Optimal Manning Experiment (OME) - Involves even more policy and structural changes to reduce workloads by various personal while maximizing efficeny in other areas. For example, refer to the below table. As you can see, from recent OME's testing - Medical Officer, Limited Duty Officer, Limited Duty Officer Surface Engineer, Warrant Officer Surface Operations Tech, Warrant Officer Surface Engineer, Command Master Chief Petty Officer (CMD) were all eliminated and consolidated.

- http://www.flagshipnews.com/archives...22004_11.shtml

Commander Surface Forces in the Pacific Vice Adm. Timothy LaFleur, took CNO’s direction on board and directed his staff to come up with a plan, and the optimal manning experiment was born. The beginning stages of the plan were to direct two Pacific Fleet surface combatants (Mobile Bay and Milius) to come up with ways to reduce their existing crew sizes by either cutting jobs or cutting billets in a ship’s manning doctrine. The reductions, however, couldn’t increase the workload among the remaining sailors or cut into the ships’ war fighting capabilities. Later, Boxer was added to the experiment to see if the same type of manning reductions and billeting cuts could be performed on a large deck amphibious warship.

“Optimal manning is an opportunity to take ideas from a ship, test them out through an interdeployment training cycle and then during a deployment take the ideas, that an optimal manning platform feels has become the ‘best practices,’ to the fleet,” said Cmdr. Sandra Davidson, force personnel officer for SurFPac and the OM coordinator.

All of these new ideas and “best practices” in manning and “working smarter and not harder” are an eye to the future when new classes of destroyers, cruisers and amphibious assault ships hit the fleet in the coming years. The practices implemented today, according to Davidson, will already be in place for the new ships of the future.

Composite Sailor - Consolidation and Hybrid tasking. (http://www.news.navy.mil/search/prin...etype=0&page=1)

06-06-2006, 02:09 AM	#17 (permalink)
Dago Patron Join Date: 02-23-06 Posts: 239 Country:	From what I gathered above, the main concepts behind reduction in manpower form other legacy platforms to the new thershold requirment for the LCS are as followed; Smart Ship Fleet Optimal Manning Experiment (OME) Composite Sailor Technology Leverage Workload Transfer Smart Ship - A combination of technology based and policy initiatives. The YORKTOWN was the first ship to incorporate SMART SHIP and other Ticos are undergoing various upgrade initiatives to reduce manpower while still retaining the same combat effectiveness. SMART SHIP "CORE TECHNOLOGIES" Integrated Bridge System (IBS): automated piloting, ship’s course and track analysis with radar and chart overlay, including collision avoidance. Integrated Condition Assessment System (ICAS): automated condition-based maintenance recorder for main propulsion and auxiliary equipment; digital information maintained on fiber optic LAN. Damage Control Quarters (DCQ): automated damage control management system providing information and communication throughout the ship on the fiber optic LAN. Machinery Control System (MCS): automated digital propulsion and electrical plant control using signals passed via the fiber optic LAN. Fuel Control System (FCS): automated digital control of ship’s fuel transfer system. Wireless Internal Communication System (WICS): individual ship’s company personal communications or near the ship. Fiber Optic Ship Wide Area Network (FO SWAN): fiber optic LAN hosting the above listed core technologies (vice the WICS) utilizing asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and being IT 21 compliant However, the majority of reduction was primarily through policy initiatives as opposed to purely from technology introductions. Such as changing watch standing philosophy, combining watch stations, and developing the flex team approach to watch standing. (Example from implementation (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/s...smartship.html) As a result from various initiatives; - Bridge Core watch reduced - 5% (Policy) - Bridge watch reduced - 2 (Technology) - Combat Core watch reduced - 8 (Policy) - Combat watch reduced - 1 (Technology) - Engineering Core Watch - 3 (Policy) - Engineering watch reduced - 4 (Technology) - Damage Control watches reduced - 13 (Technology) - Training Department added + 5 (Policy and Technology) Based upon the Smart Ship Project Assessment, the USS YORKTOWN met all mission requirements laid out by the Navy, reduced annual operating costs by $2.8 million, and developed long-term benefits in terms of improved morale and retention of quality personnel. Total weekly workload was reduced by 9,000 hours or 30%. "The Smart Ship Project has demonstrated that shipboard workload reductions are possible while maintaining combat readiness and safety with significant net positive return on your investment." Specific results are provided in sections III, IV and V herein. Baseline improvements from Smart Ship concept. Fleet Optimal Manning Experiment (OME) - Involves even more policy and structural changes to reduce workloads by various personal while maximizing efficeny in other areas. For example, refer to the below table. As you can see, from recent OME's testing - Medical Officer, Limited Duty Officer, Limited Duty Officer Surface Engineer, Warrant Officer Surface Operations Tech, Warrant Officer Surface Engineer, Command Master Chief Petty Officer (CMD) were all eliminated and consolidated. - http://www.flagshipnews.com/archives...22004_11.shtml Commander Surface Forces in the Pacific Vice Adm. Timothy LaFleur, took CNO’s direction on board and directed his staff to come up with a plan, and the optimal manning experiment was born. The beginning stages of the plan were to direct two Pacific Fleet surface combatants (Mobile Bay and Milius) to come up with ways to reduce their existing crew sizes by either cutting jobs or cutting billets in a ship’s manning doctrine. The reductions, however, couldn’t increase the workload among the remaining sailors or cut into the ships’ war fighting capabilities. Later, Boxer was added to the experiment to see if the same type of manning reductions and billeting cuts could be performed on a large deck amphibious warship. “Optimal manning is an opportunity to take ideas from a ship, test them out through an interdeployment training cycle and then during a deployment take the ideas, that an optimal manning platform feels has become the ‘best practices,’ to the fleet,” said Cmdr. Sandra Davidson, force personnel officer for SurFPac and the OM coordinator. All of these new ideas and “best practices” in manning and “working smarter and not harder” are an eye to the future when new classes of destroyers, cruisers and amphibious assault ships hit the fleet in the coming years. The practices implemented today, according to Davidson, will already be in place for the new ships of the future. Composite Sailor - Consolidation and Hybrid tasking. (http://www.news.navy.mil/search/prin...etype=0&page=1)