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RAN CONTRACTS FRENCH COMPANY FOR COMPLIANCE RESPONSE
BUREAU Veritas (BV), a Paris-based test- ing, inspection and certification (TIC) ser- vices company, is working with the RAN to support a component of the Navy’s com- pliance response to the Defence Seawor- thiness Management System (DSwMS).
Bureau Veritas will work with the RAN to prescribe the naval materiel policies and the newstandardisednavalmaterialrulesetfor Australia.Thisframeworkwillprovideanec- essary ecosystem for the trusted design, build, and commissioning of naval ships as Austra- lia’s sovereign shipbuilding capabilities grow.
“This is an exciting project for Bureau Veritas,” Pierre de Chateau Thierry, Busi- ness Director, BV Marine & Offshore in Australasia said. “The naval shipbuilding capacity being built in Adelaide and re- lated projects require a strong framework providing the practical foundation for the supply chain and standards.
“Assisting the Navy develop its DSwMS
compliance response is a
foundation and we are look-
ing forward to commencing
this important and substan-
tial task which also has a
challenging delivery time-
line. Building modern war-
ships is a complex design,
procurement, and supply
chain management chal-
lenge. We will be focused on helping en- sure that the complexity of the challenges involved can be managed in confidence.”
BV says it has a ‘significant’ expertise and deployable capacity in Australia and overseas to support the RAN, CASG and the naval shipyards.
“We are far more than a classification so- ciety, but this project will also draw on our core marine technology capabilities in hull systems, propulsion, electrical systems, ship survivability, stability and trimming,
THE baseline design drawings for Phase 2 (Forward Projector) of the Advanced Stabi- lised Glide Slope Indicator (ASGSI) project on the Canberra class Landing Helicopter Docks (LHD) have been delivered by a team of Navantia Australia engineers, bringing the project to a close after over 10 long months and over 3,500 hours of engineer- ing labour. The Forward ASGSI system is now fully installed on both LHDs and was recently used to support the First of Class
Flight Trials for the MH-60R helicopters. A consortium of Navy, CASG, Naval Ship Management, Owen International, AGI and Navantia Australia collaborative- ly worked through an engineering change to install the new Advanced SGSI system in a very tight timeline. Navantia Australia performed the platform integration design necessary to integrate the ASGSI into the
Canberra class LHD design.
The team began working on the project
in September 2019 and delivered revisions to 27 LHD baseline engineering drawings, three Installa- tion Work Packs as well as alignment documentation, test procedures, a detailed design report, Designer’s Certificate, Validation and
LEFT: HMAS Canberra sails through Sydney Harbour.
Verification artefacts, PDR and DDR de- sign reviews, and all the ILS deliverables required for RAN to operate and maintain this system.
“This integrated effort has been a real credit to Navantia and a good indication to Navy of how well our team is working together,” Navantia Australia’s managing director Alfonso Garcia-Valdes said. “The ASGSI system had emerging obsolescence issues that were making supportability very difficult and causing concern for the LHD Aviation capability. Navantia Austra- lia’s engineering design team were integral to achieving the change, readily accepted the challenge, but were agile in approach as problems such as material availability during COVID-19, [which] threatened res- toration of the SGSI capability.”
In June, Defence recognised Navantia Australia as a Design Authority for four classes of RAN ships under a Strategic Agreement Principles document. See P70 for more on this.
ABOVE: HMAS Toowoomba alongside the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during flight
operations while on exercise.
submarine systems, and control systems,” Thierry continued. “We combine the best of marine and other industries to provide the sophisticated capabilities required.
“To support its activities focused on the sovereign shipbuilding projects, Bureau Veritas is opening a new Liaison and Sup- port office with dedicated staff, located in Adelaide’s new Defence & Space Innova- tion Precinct. If we are going to be a key player in the ecosystem we need to be in that ecosystem.”
NAVANTIA COMPLETES LHD DESIGN UPGRADE
DEFENCE
SUPPLIED