Abstract
ABSTRACT Stringent signature control, extremely low manning numbers, and reduced total ownership costs are themes that characterize future U.S. Navy surface ship designs. The traditional world of deck systems must evolve to meet this new challenge. The Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWCCD) established an Innovation Center team (named DeckOps 2020) to investigate both existing and potential deck systems for the future Fleet of surface ships. The team co‐authored this paper which highlights several of the recommended alternatives for deck systems using new technologies and new techniques. The focus of this paper is the Zero Manning On Deck (Z‐MOD) surface combatant. It is entirely feasible, as well as highly desirable, to design a surface combatant which requires no topside human presence in order to accomplish all normal underway evolutions. By removing the sailor from the weather deck, the topside systems required to support human presence on the weather deck can be removed, resulting in lower radar cross section clutter, a lower topside maintenance burden, and reduced total ownership costs. The Z‐MOD surface combatant design approach provides the means to turn the artists' conception paintings of smooth and sleek futuristic ships into functional reality.
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