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r Huisman personally, has also had a long relationship with MARIN because he briefly


worked there back in 1974 whilst studying to become a naval architect at Delft University. Over the years he has been a regular visitor to MARIN’s Wageningen headquarters.


From the New Year Mr Huisman expects to again be working closely with MARIN as he takes on a new role as head of platform systems, which includes hydrodynamics.


Mr Huisman is very keen to stress that the navy unit of the DMO is not typical of simi- lar organisations in other countries because it is not just about procurement. The DMO has its own design offices, he says. “We still design our own concepts for ships, they go for tests at MARIN and then they are engineered and built by Dutch yards.”


MARIN’s relationship with the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) is one that spans decades and it is one that looks set to intensify in the future. Report interviews Jaap Huisman, head of DMO’s design office about the partnership.


It is therefore essential to keep naval design expertise available in the Netherlands within industry, defence organisations and especially at knowledge centres like MARIN, he says. “The real specific in-depth, hydro- dynamic expertise lies with organisations such as MARIN. We are actually brokers of that knowledge.”


One advantage of working with MARIN is that the DMO can give feedback from the naval fleet so that both the MARIN and DMO


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