ABSTRACT
You are a program manager for a large established company called Castle Industries that does a lot of military subcontracting. Your company has been engaged to design the next generation of supply vessels to support military operations in other nations. However, this vessel needs to be designed with two important differentiations from a normal warship. First, it needs to be designed so that it can convert from a supply vessel to a troop transport to a medical vessel to a vessel to support relief operations. Second, the vessel needs to be designed in a manner that it can be built in modules in different shipyards and then assembled in one location. Due to the complexity of the design and engineering of this vessel, the United States has commissioned a five-year design program to develop the vessel that accommodates these needs.
