Royal Australian Navy awards major bridge
simulator contract to Kongsberg Digital
Kongsberg Digital has been selected
to deliver and support a suite of so-phisticated
K-Sim Navigation ready
ship’s bridge simulators for the Royal
Australian Navy. The contract will en-able
the Royal Australian Navy to sig-nificantly
increase its training capac-ity
and reduce costs associated with
qualifying bridge watch keepers and
other staff before going to sea.
The simulators will be delivered for instal-lation
in a new training facility at HMAS
Stirling in Perth starting May 2019, with
existing bridge simulators at HMAS Wat-son
in Sydney being upgraded from De-cember
2018. The new simulation centre
in Perth and extensive upgrades in Syd-ney
will ease pressure on the Navy’s ex-isting
facilities and provide sophisticated
bridge simulation training capabilities on
both coasts of the Australian continent.
“The Royal Australian Navy has trained
crew on KONGSBERG ship’s bridge
simulators since 1998, and our engine
room simulators are also integral to its
engineer training,” said Lars Klemments-by,
VP Business Development Defence,
Kongsberg Digital. “Their high level of
satisfaction over these past two dec-ades
has played a major role in this latest
contract award, which confirms Kongs-berg
Digital’s position as the supplier of
choice for both bridge and engine room
simulation to the Australian Navy.”
The contract also includes a Long Term
System Support Program (LTSSP), de-signed
to ensure high operational avail-ability
and easy access to new KONGS-BERG
simulator developments. The
Royal Australian Navy has already ben-efited
from an existing LTSSP, which
enabled fast track upgrading of its ca-pabilities
at HMAS Watson with new
KONGSBERG ship’s bridge simulators in
2016/17.
K-Sim Navigation is based on a cutting-edge
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technology platform enabling more
realistic training scenarios and enhanced
user benefits for both instructors and
students. It features an advanced new
physical engine and state-of-the-art hy-drodynamic
modelling, allowing vessels,
objects and equipment to behave and
interact as in real life, as well as a new in-structor
system, complete configuration
flexibility and easy integration with other
simulators for complete team training.
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Royal Australian Navy will soon upgrade their existing KONGSBERG ship’s bridge simulators and benefit from enhanced user-benefits for instructors
and students. The picture shows Maritime Warfare Officer Training in the KONGSBERG simulator at HMAS Watson.
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