Navy MBPS
One Source Of Truth For Every Hull.
The Challenge
The U.S. Navy manages one of the most complex logistics ecosystems in the world. Across the fleet, hundreds of IT applications have historically supported various aspects of logistics management — most built in the early 1980s, poorly integrated, and increasingly unable to support the digital engineering demands of modern naval operations. Configuration data, technical manuals, engineering drawings, and logistics records lived in separate, siloed systems, forcing sailors and shore personnel to manually reconcile data across platforms just to understand the current configuration and maintenance status of their vessels.
The Reality
MBPS is the Navy's response to this challenge — the maritime element of Navy Product Lifecycle Management (N-PLM). At its core is PTC's Windchill, a proven commercial product lifecycle management platform. Hosted in the Navy-owned IL5 Bluewater Cloud Hosted Environment, MBPS provides unprecedented levels of visibility, accuracy, and fleet confidence in understanding each ship’s configuration and supporting technical data. This accuracy is critical in supporting both fleet operations and enhanced decision making. Lyntris is now building out CUI-Specified (UNNPI) controls to bring submarine and aircraft carrier data into MBPS for the first time — a capability targeted for early 2027 that will retire three more legacy systems and make MBPS the authoritative record across every vessel class in the fleet.
The Architecture
