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Global Underwater Hub Launches Defence Sector Innovation Call
The body representing the UK’s underwater industry has launched its first cross-sectoral industry project.
The Global Underwater Hub (GUH), in partnership with the Royal Navy and Babcock, has launched a call for innovation that aims to identify technologies and techniques used in the offshore environment that can be applied to the defence sector to address key problem challenges and generate efficiency savings.
The joint initiative seeks to identify ways to increase the operational uptime of assets and reduce dry-docking periods by adopting and adapting existing in-water inspection, maintenance and repair practices used in other sectors.
This is the first project to be unveiled by the GUH since its formation last year. It underlines the cross-sectoral exchanging of knowledge, skills and expertise that is at the heart of the membership organisation, which represents businesses operating in the offshore energy, aquaculture, defence, telecoms and subsea mining industries.
As part of the initiative, three separate calls for innovation will take place. The first call focuses on in-water inspection, while details of calls two and three will be announced in the autumn. All three calls are open to GUH members and non-members.
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In call one, the Royal Navy is seeking proven, modern technologies and methodologies which it can employ to improve its routine in-water inspection activities. Currently, in-water
Neil Gordon, Chief Executive, Global Underwater Hub
inspections are performed either by air divers or ROVs on a variety of steel pressure vessels, tanks, pipework, pipe fittings and structural members. By increasing the volume of in-water inspections, the Royal Navy, and its industrial support partner Babcock, aims to increase assets’ operational availability, reduce human intervention, bolster workforce safety and decrease dry-docking duration.
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