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BAE SYSTEMS TO INTRODUCE NEW TECH TO HOBART CLASS DESTROYERS
BAE SYSTEMS Australia has unveiled plans to introduce new technologies designed to enable strategic data-driven decision making in real time across the Hobart Class De- stroyer Enterprise.
BAE Systems’ Integrated Asset Management System (IAMS) is a new technology designed to ‘provide a con- nected data driven environment that brings people, pro- cesses, and technology together within a sustainment de- livery enterprise’.
IAMS has already been introduced to the Hydrograph- ic In Service support team as a pilot and is scheduled to be introduced to the destroyer enterprise in 2022.
The Destroyer Enterprise supports the three Hobart Class destroyers HMAS Brisbane, HMAS Sydney and HMAS Hobart at their base at Fleet Base East, Garden Island, NSW, and is responsible for sustaining the three warships and transitioning them into service.
make strategic data-driven decisions that improve pro- cesses and workflows to make the team even more ef- ficient and optimise sea-worthiness and performance of the destroyers in line with Plan Galileo.
“We’re seeing great results using our IAMS system to drive towards supporting data driven decision making in the Hydrographic In Service support contract and expect simi- lar gains to be made across the Destroyer Enterprise.” ■
BAE Systems is the Managing Contractor of the De- stroyer Enterprise, which includes Navantia Australia, Raytheon, Thales, CASG and the RAN. The com- pany, as the Managing Contractor, has recently received a one-year exten- sion to its Hobart Class Destroyer Transition Sup-
port Period Contract. “This has been an in- credibly complex program and I am pleased that the en- terprise is working as one team to support the Royal Aus- tralian Navy, which was reflected with the recent award of the one year extension,” BAE Systems Australia Man-
aging Director Defence Delivery Andrew Gresham said. “Ultimately, our aim is for the enterprise to be able to
ABOVE: HMAS Brisbane conducts Officer of the Watch manoeuvres in the Eastern Australian Exercise Area.
“WE’RE SEEING GREAT RESULTS USING OUR IAMS SYSTEM”
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