ASNE Reconfiguration and Survivability Symposium 2005 (RS 2005) Sea Turtle Inn, Atlantic Beach, Florida (Jacksonville/Mayport area) February 16-18, 2005

The American Society of Naval Engineers' Jacksonville Section, Office of Naval Research, and the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida Sate University are sponsoring the first ASNE Reconfiguration and Survivability Symposium.

The purpose of the symposium is to generate, collect, and formulate information and knowledge, both technological and operational, into understanding, definition, and specification of the controls environment necessary for future Navy warships (Electric Ship, DDX, CVNX, LCS and LPD-17) to support autonomous reconfiguration and automated survivability.

Appropriate control technology, or the lack thereof, is the greatest hurdle we face in the development of an electric warship, which addresses all future Navy capabilities, in particular autonomous survivability. To achieve the high level of performance required for survivability, it is necessary to implement an intelligent, distributed control strategy where the behavior of individual electric plant subsystems and devices can be modified to meet the changing needs of the ship. There will be a heterogeneous mix of autonomous, but interconnected subsystems. Devices will include embedded sensors, communications and computational capabilities, as well as traditional and non-traditional Hull, Mechanical & Electrical marine power systems. Significant understanding of the motivations, priorities, steps and subtleties of implementing and assessing ship reconfiguration and survivability exist in the conventional wisdom of today's Navy officers and crews and the various research communities. This symposium will allow Navy personnel to share their experience with academic, industry and government researchers. Also, these researchers will share with Navy personnel and the greater research community the latest state-of-the-art developments in autonomous reconfiguration and automated survivability.