SEAFRAME: Ships & Ship Systems Quarterly Publication, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2005

摘要

One of the primary responsibilities of the Product Area Directors (PADs) is to reach across geographical and organizational boundaries and find innovative ways to introduce synergy and collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness into Warfare Center work. This is crucial to bringing the best capabilities to bear for the customer. Within the Ships and Ship Systems (S3) Product Area (PA), we are collaborating in multiple areas. Examples of teaming include the S3, Littoral Warfare Systems (LWS), and Undersea Warfare Weapon and Vehicle Systems (USW W&V) PA agreement for Warfare Center support of unmanned underwater and surface vehicles. Another agreement for support of Navy Fuel Cell development is between the S3 and USW W&V PAs and involves three Warfare Center sites--Crane, IN; Philadelphia, PA; and Newport, RI. The first ship type agreement is for support of the Littoral Combat Ship. The agreement is for a Customer Advocate Concept of Operations (CONOPS) that involves six PAs and crosses three program executive offices (PEO Ships, PEO Littoral Mine Warfare, and PEO Integrated Warfare Systems). The CONOPS provides a framework to integrate and coordinate the customer advocates across the three PEOs to provide timely and efficient access to the full spectrum of technical expertise in the integrated Warfare Center. Other teaming initiatives focus on creating Communities of Interest (CoI), in which the technical communities from across the Warfare Center work as a group, understanding the capabilities that exist across the various divisions. A significant CoI that the S3 PA initiated is for hydrodynamics, which involves work done in West Bethesda, MD; Newport, RI; and Panama City, FL. Additionally, we've formulated customer teams, which work together to look at a single customer. Eight PADs, including S3, and seven warfare center sites are teamed to determine the best way to provide support for the Special Operations Command.