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Executive Summary
 SEA LANCE is intended to act as the deployment mechanism for the Expeditionary Warfare Grid proposed as part of the Capabilities of the Navy after Next (CNANS) study by the Naval warfare Development Command. The Grid is a large number of sensors and, potentially, weapons that could be deployed in the water column off the shores of an adversary. The Grid would help to defeat the adversary's "anti-access" capability, ensuring continued US ability to gain access to contested littoral areas. The system consisting of SEA LANCE and the Grid would be capable of providing the deployability, flexibility, versatility, lethality and survivability necessary in dangerous littorals to give the operations commander then necessary situation al awareness and access assurance. The Grid and the SEA LANCE ships would operate in a Network Centric Warfare environment.
The Navy's blue water fleet is not ideally suited for operations in cluttered, complex littoral environments and may be too valuable to risk there. Yet gaining, maintaining, sustaining and exploiting the littorals in order to project power ashore remains a high priority. SEA LANCE, in conjunction with the Grid will be capable of performing this vital mission.
The ship is a robust fighting platform that gives its 12-person crew the ability to conduct operations in support of "anti-access-denial" operations in the littorals. It is a pair of vessels consisting of the combatant and a towed hull with a similar hull form, which is towed in a semi-fixed arrangement in close proximity to the combatant. The Grid components are carried in the tow and, once they are deployed the tow can be detached leaving a fast, agile combatant to operate in conjunction with the grid.
More Information
The following documents are available for download.
- Final Report - Complete
The complete final student report, PDF file (26,906 KB).
- Final Report - Main
The final student report without the appendices, PDF file (6,727 KB).
- Project Presentation:
- Right-click to download AutoCAD drawings:
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