Application of templates to early-stage ship design

Current efforts to bring design of distribution systems earlier in the ship design process will advance the Navy's abilities to assess the impact of ship systems on overall ship performance. System design in the early stages of ship design is currently a labor-intensive manual process. Streamlining and automating system design will enable incorporating the capability into exploration of broad trade spaces such as accomplished using the Navy's Rapid Ship Design Environment (RSDE). The work presented herein produces distributed system designs in a semi-automated manner appropriate for eventual inclusion in RSDE, based on a small amount of input provided in template format.