The Florida State University of Advanced Energy Systems (CAPS) has secured a new $ 31 million contract from Naval Systems for Navy’s research and development of shipwreck electrical and energy systems.
“My team and I are very pleased with the new contract with NAVSEA,” said FSU Chief Inspector Michael Misha Sturrer. “The quality of our work and the credibility of our team in the community is a great testament. We have the potential to make a real impact on ships and taxpayers, as our ships are designed to reduce risks in the research and development cycles of advanced energy and energy technologies needed to provide the skills they need for the future.
As part of the new contract, CAPS researchers and partners at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of South Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Arlington, Texas, will develop approaches to incorporate advanced modeling and simulation techniques into marine domination. Strategies to adopt a comprehensive digital engineering model for the future.
This work includes further optimizing real-time, simulation-based testing and evaluation systems and integrating them with compatible controller hardware simulation methods. CAPS researchers also integrate their work into the Navy’s largest model-based systems framework and receive teacher support from the newly established systems engineering program at the FSU Panama City Campus (operated by FAMU-FSU Engineering College).
“This contract is a great demonstration of confidence from NAVSEA in terms of the quality that CAPS has already provided and the quality of its work,” said CAPS Director Roger McGinis. Over the past two decades, the team here has done a great job working with the Navy, and we are very happy to continue that partnership.
Over the past 20 years, CAPS has established itself as one of the leading centers for research and development in the field of advanced energy and energy systems around the world. CAPS is not only contributing to the ever-increasing demand of the U.S. Navy for technologies on ships, but also to supporting the integration of renewable energy sources into ground energy systems.
The new contract is the expansion of a project already funded by NAVSEA over the past seven years. As a result of this work, Kaps became the first US Navy-approved test site to test the next generation of naval technology based on power hardware simulation.
In addition to NAVSEA, CAPS received additional funding last year to support their work.
In January, the Naval Research Office provided FSU with $ 30 million and five years of funding to continue its work with the Electrical Research and Development Association. CAPS leads a team consisting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, University of Texas at Austin, University of South Carolina, Mississippi State University, and Virginia Tech.
The Bureau of Naval Research has also provided CAPS with a $ 10 million grant to modernize facilities and technologies to meet the challenges of the next decade. Many items have already been upgraded, and other systems used in power fields and power hardware in loop research will be completed by the end of 2021.
“The work that CPS has done in collaboration with the Navy and other universities is remarkable,” said Laurel Fulson, interim vice president of research. “We are very pleased that the Navy at FSU appreciates the team’s commitment and quality of work. Their work in this area is unparalleled. ”