The rapidity, complexity, and scope of technical advances in the past decade have had a tremendous impact on ship design. The ship must be an integrated system with maximum warfare capability in support of its specified mission and tasks. Efficient and reliable operation must be achieved, while at the same time reflecting reasonable costs and personnel requirements. Interfaces and interrelationships in all major design areas must be scrupulously studied and examined in order to achieve maximum integration of subsystems into a single system which performs multiple functions.
