A systems approach to architecting a mission package for LCS support of amphibious operations

The United States Navy andMarine Corps have identified capability gaps in the areas of collecting Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (ISR&T) data and employing fires during amphibious operations. The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) presents an opportunity to deploy specific mission capabilities in the amphibious theater. This paper identifies the operational, functional, and physical architecture of an LCS Amphibious Warfare Mission Package (LAMP) necessary to provide capabilities associated with ISR&T data collect and fires employment. Physical architecture configurations are evaluated using a discrete-event model. Cost estimates for each alternative are presented in order to identify the LAMP architecture that provides the most cost-effective solution for providing capabilities associated with ISR&T data collection and fires employment. This paper concludes by identifying potential LAMP assets that would provide cost-effective support of amphibious operations. Four feasible alternatives are ultimately identified as cost-effective solutions, with LCCEs ranging from $105.49M and$188.22M and providing varying levels of effectiveness in terms of average engagement time and percentage of threats successfully affected.http://archive.org/details/asystemspproacht1094543992Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) Report

Commissioner Brenda V. Smith Commissioner Brenda V. Smith is a Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she teaches community and economic development law, legal ethics and women, and crime and law. Her research interests center on women in conflict with the law and on sexual abuse of individuals in custody. Professor Smith is also Project Director and Principal Investigator for the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Corrections Cooperative Agreement on Addressing Staff Sexual Misconduct with Offenders. She is an expert on issues affecting women in prison, a topic about which she has widely published and spoken. Before her appointment to the faculty of the Washington College of Law, Professor Smith was Senior Counsel for Economic Security at the National Women’s Law Center. She has also served as the Director of the Center’s Women in Prison Project and its Child and Family Support Project. Professor Smith earned her Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College and her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center