In-service support DCNS wins TLS
services contract DCNS has been awarded a major contract to provide through-life support (TLS) services for the French Navy’s La Fayette class frigates. Te contract, worth over €60 million (US$81.7
million), calls for TLS services to be provided at Toulon naval base for five French Navy La Fayette frigates (Aconit, Courbet, Guépratte, La Fayette and Surcouf) over a period of five years (2011 to 2015). Te contract will come into effect this spring when the Surcouf is laid up for a scheduled refit. “This TLS contract for La Fayette-class frigates
highlights our prime customer’s confidence in DCNS,” says Tierry Kalanquin, SVP Services. “Trough-life support for this class of warship calls for resources and expertise in areas where DCNS fully meets the Navy’s needs. We are indeed proud to contribute to the French fleet’s availability.” For the purposes of this contract, DCNS will assign
dedicated resources and management to a dedicated area of the Toulon shipyard. Te management team will be located on site alongside teams of engineers, buyers, assistants, mechanics, electricians, metalwork- ers and so on, for the duration of the contract. These teams will be supported by additional production staff and resources as and when required
to meet refit workloads. A specific area of the shipyard, including the Castigneau drydocks, will be dedicated exclusively to this work with one vessel in drydock and another at a nearby quay at any given time.
Support vessels DCNS presents
support vessels Speaking to international experts gathered in London on 9 and 10 December for the Afloat Support and Naval Logistics conference, DCNS gave a presen- tation on its new-generation BRAVE (Bâtiment RAVitailleur d’Escadre) underway replenishment tanker and support vessel under development for both the French Navy and international customers. Te BRAVE support vessel is the latest addition to
DCNS’s product portfolio. Te concept was unveiled at the Euronaval 2010 show in Paris in late October. The multi-purpose BRAVE concept caters for
missions currently performed by up to three types of French Navy ships. Tese include the underway replenishment of dry goods, munitions and fuels along with at-sea maintenance and repairs. According to DCNS studies, four BRAVE vessels
would enable the French Navy to reduce its support fleet and crews by 50% while increasing total payload by 30% and cutting operating costs. WT
Warship Technology received the following letter from Bernie Phelps, Head Naval Architect, Surface Platform Systems, Maritime Platforms Division, Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia:
Dear Sir,
It was with interest but concern that I read in your January 2011 edition of Warship Technology, the article titled “DSTO explores systems engineering model as aid for MRV.” Of particular concern was the assertion that the DSTO report, “A Process to Establish the Common Functions Performed by a Multi-Role Vessel” was carried out “to support the acquisition process” and “to test the validity of this Identify Common Functions (ICF-MRV) process based on the MRV concept raised by the 2009 Defence White Paper.”
I wish to clarify that development of this report was conducted as an academic exercise to illustrate the utility of the Systems Engineering approach in identifying common functions during the concept design phase. Other than to identify that “the OCV (Project SEA 1180) concept provides a useful example of an MRV where the ICF-MRV process can be applied” the DSTO report has no direct bearing on the SEA 1180 Project. The report uses the term Multi-Role Vessel (MRV) to distinguish it from the SEA 1180 Offshore Combatant Vessel (OCV) identified in the 2009 Defence White Paper. However, your article drops the capitalisation of “Offshore Combatant Vessel” and instead directly relates the MRV acronym to Project SEA 1180. Certainly the OCV is intended to be a multi-role class of ships, but it should not be interpreted that the MRV in the DSTO report is the SEA 1180 OCV.
I would further like to point out that there is no connection between the DSTO report and the multihull concept design that is used to illustrate your article.
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