Objective:
The objective of this effort is to provide support to NAVSEA 05Z33 from an industry team comprised of multiple lighting manufacturers, shipyards, and Navy entities to help initiate and expedite the revision process and accelerate the modernization of the U.S. Navy lighting.
Summary:
The team will identify areas of greater concern in the DOD‐HDBK‐289 to determine if the functional needs could be best met with the new lighting technologies to simplify the installation and maintenance and lower the systems overall costs. These applications will include topside navigation and signaling lights, spotlights and searchlights, and general area lights. New lighting technologies will be investigated to determine how the specifications can be revised to meet the functional needs with products that are available and that can be adapted and qualified to shipboard use.
Key Deliverables / Benefits:
- Increase mission readiness aspects by improving product durability and address accelerated obsolescence risks of components such as lamp and ballast igniters.
- Eliminate the need for equipment to compensate for the limited performance of legacy devices.
- Ensure that all the aspects of the product lifecycle including integration, installation, in‐service utilization, repair, and maintenance are addressed to meet high reliability, low cost, reduced power consumption, and low maintenance objectives.
- Support NAVSEA effort to revise the lighting handbook by performing engineering and economic analysis to validate the utilization of the new lighting technologies
Overview
Project Team:
- RSL Fiber Systems
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Austal USA
- Penn State Applied Research Laboratory
- Phoenix Lighting
- Signal Mate
February 2024 – February 2025
NSRP ASE Investment: $145K
