Abstract
ABSTRACTIn the past two decades the U.S. Overseas Supply Base structure has greatly diminished, stretching the supply lines to deployed Navy forces. At the same time rapidly rising shipbuilding costs have caused new combatant ship construction to squeeze out new replenishment ship construction. The result is longer supply lines with fewer assets to support them. Merchant ships show great promise in augmenting Navy replenishment ships in some situations, but now have no interface capability for “at—sea” transfer of dry cargo. The aim of the Merchant Ship Naval Augmentation Program (MSNAP) is to provide adapter packages that provide a merchant ship with this capability on short notice and with inexpensive components. Some conceptual component designs have been developed, and limited feasibility testing has been conducted. However, many of the critical problems yet remain to be solved by the Naval Engineering Community.
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