Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology

With increased electrification of naval ships, fully integrated shipboard power systems (SPS) are gradually becoming a reality. Flexibility of the electrical power distribution allows supply of a broad range of loads. Among different load types, pulsed power loads (PPLs) introduce the most significant challenges for the operation of the system. The objective of this project is to overcome the limitations of existing strategies that deal with integration of different types of PPLs into SPSs and to come up with new ones with improved flexibility with respect to actual capabilities and current operating conditions of the overhead SPS.