NRP FY18 Annual Report
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NAVAL RESEARCH PROGRAM NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report March 2019 The information within this report is unlimited distribution, and has been prepared by: Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Naval Research Program (NRP) Research & Sponsored Programs Office 699 Dyer Road, Bldg 234 Monterey, CA 93943 [email protected] Provided by: NPS President: Ronald Route, VADM USN Ret. NPS Provost: Dr. Steven Lerman NPS Dean of Research: Dr. Jeffrey Paduan NPS NRP Program Manager: Mr. Matthew Kline NPS NRP Deputy Program Manager: Lt Col David Forbell NPS NRP National Capital Region Representative: Robert Osterhoudt, CAPT USN Ret. NPS NRP Integration Lead: Ms. Lois Hazard NPS NRP IT & Student Component Manager: Ms. Sadie L. Hastings MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN OF RESEARCH I am pleased to support the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Naval Research Program (NRP) in the fifth complete fiscal year of the program. The studies sponsored within FY18 have made significant contributions to the Department of the Navy (DoN) by providing insights to key operational decision-makers along with recommendations to support cost savings in a fiscally constrained environment. The NRP's funding and program goals are directly in line with SECNAV’s goal to provide research to “support[s] the Navy in reaching well-informed, objective decisions on strategic, operational, and programmatic issues through collaborative research.” This report highlights results from the spectrum of NPS NRP research activities conducted on behalf of both Navy and Marine Corps Topic Sponsors during the 2018 fiscal year. Executive summaries from the research projects are included in the report. While most of those summaries detail final results, some projects have multi-year project lengths. In those cases, progress-to-date is reported. NRP is one critical component of the overall NPS research portfolio. Under the stewardship of the NPS president, it utilizes a dedicated block of research funding to assist the operational naval community with timely studies while also informing NPS students and faculty about the latest operational priorities. As such, NRP projects are excellent complements to the other faculty-driven research projects, which tend toward the basic research program areas. Looking forward to the current fiscal year, NRP is enjoying its first full year under the direction of its civilian program manager, Mr. Matt Kline as well as being a recognized component within the Navy Analytic Office (NAO). As part of the NAO portfolio, NPS faculty and students are uniquely empowered to learn from and contribute to Naval problem sets at the highest levels. Finally, the many benefits that accrue through the NPS NRP depend on the wholehearted participation of the NPS faculty, the NPS students, and the many Topic Sponsors from across the OPNAV and Marine Corps headquarters commands. My thanks to all who have participated during this program year. Sincerely, Dr. Jeffrey Paduan NPS Dean of Research Naval Postgraduate School Naval Research Program FY18 Annual Report i Table of Contents Message From the Dean of Research .......................................................................................................................... i Naval Research Program Overview .......................................................................................................................... 1 Background......................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Organization ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Mission and Goals ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 Program Administration ............................................................................................................................................... 2 Accomplishments ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 FY18 Research Highlights ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Data Science and Machine Learning ....................................................................................................................... 3 Innovation ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Cyber ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Talent Management ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Acquisition and Logistics ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Global Strategy ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 ASN(RDA) - Research, Development, and Acquisition .......................................................................................... 5 NPS-18-N081-A: The Implications of Co-Active Design on Manned Unmanned Teaming in Naval UxS Operations .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 NPS-18-N084-A: MEMS Direction Finding Acoustic Sensor ........................................................................ 11 NPS-18-N190-A: Implementing the DoN 30-Year R&D Plan: Creating a Culture That Values Learning, Collaboration and Innovation ............................................................................................................... 13 NPS-18-N304-A: A Systems Design Approach to Define the Requirements and Concept of Operations for Offensive and Defensive Seabed Warfare ............................................................................. 15 NPS-18-N341-B: Automatic Generation of System Plans for Autonomous Unmanned Systems . 19 NPS-18-N343-A: Quantifying HEL Weapon System Performance through a Layer of Fog or Low Level Clouds ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21 NPS-18-N344-A: Fostering Innovation in the Naval Research & Development Establishment .... 23 NPS-18-N354-A: Benchmarking Human Resources Services Innovations and Best Practices with Industry .............................................................................................................................................................................. 25 NPS-18-N363-A: DoD Agile Software Development Early Phase Cost Modeling ................................ 27 NPS-18-N393-A: Development of Shipboard Equipment Shock Survivability Assessment Technique .......................................................................................................................................................................... 30 N1 - Manpower, Personnel, Training & Education ................................................................................................ 33 NPS-18-N046-A: Determining Effects of Training in Virtual Environments Upon Implicit Learning ............................................................................................................................................................................. 33 NPS-18-N068-A: Qualitative Measures of and Guidance for Navy Inclusiveness ............................... 35 NPS-18-N071-A: Development and Assessment for Light Weight Virtual Reality Training .......... 40 Naval Postgraduate School Naval Research Program FY18 Annual Report ii NPS-18-N320-A: Improving Visibility of Talent: Analysis of Technical Skills and Cognitive Aptitude of Navy Officers ............................................................................................................................................ 43 N2/N6 - Information Warfare ........................................................................................................................................ 45 NPS-18-N185-A: An End-to-End Big Data Application Architecture for the Common Tactical Picture ................................................................................................................................................................................. 45 NPS-18-N013-A: Reinforcement Learning for Modeling Large Scale Cognitive Reasoning (Phase II) .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 NPS-18-N094-A: Cognitive Threat Emitter Recognition of Behaviors with Deep Neural Networks ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 NPS-18-N193-A: