Arctic Ship Design Impacts: Green Arctic Patrol Vessel (GAPV) Project

• Main Authors: Weidle, W S, Field, Parker, Buckley, Nicholas
• Other Authors: NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER CARDEROCK DIV BETHESDA MD
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Geography; Marine Engineering; Military Operations; Strategy and Tactics; *ARCTIC OCEAN; *ARCTIC REGIONS; *MILITARY CAPABILITIES; *MULTIMISSION; *NAVAL ARCHITECTURE; *PATROL CRAFT; *REQUIREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION; DIESEL ENGINES; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; FUEL CELLS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MANEUVERABILITY; NAVY; RANGE(DISTANCE); SEA ICE; SEA STATES; SEAKEEPING; SHIP DEFENSE SYSTEMS; SYMPOSIA; *ARCTIC SHIP DESIGN; *GREEN ARCTIC PATROL VESSEL; *DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; GREEN TECHNOLOGY; GAPV(GREEN ARCTIC PATROL VESSEL); EXTREME OPERATING CONDITIONS; POLAR CLASS 5 REQUIREMENTS; OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES; ICE BREAKING; DEICING SYSTEMS; DIESEL GENERATORS; TANKAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Arlington; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA558375; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA558375

Arctic warming and the resulting polar ice break up is expected to increase traffic through the Arctic region for tourism, research, resource extraction, and transportation purposes. Understanding that the United States will have a strategic objective in the region in the coming decades, the current U.S. Navy (USN) fleet is not designed to meet the challenges of operating in an Arctic environment. Anticipating that need, the Green Arctic Patrol Vessel (GAPV) project was started as a summer intern project in the Center for Innovation in Ship Design (CISD) at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) during the summer of 2009, and has completed its third iteration. The project developed a concept of operations and notional design for a USN Arctic Patrol Vessel capable of meeting current gaps in Arctic operational capability. The goal of this paper is to describe this vessel's design and highlight many of the high-level impacts the Arctic environment has, and will have, on surface combatant design. Presented at the American Society of Naval Engineers Day 2012 (ASNE Day) held in Arlington, VA, on February 9-10, 2012.