• Military Menu                       

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Industry
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• WMD
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

BAE SYSTEMS wins $12 million U.S. Navy simulation contract

22 Mar 2001

Ref: 040/2001

BAE Systems has won a $12 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Navy to continue to provide complex computer modelling hardware and software support for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). The work entails technical support services - including various types of simulation and performance modelling - for technical groups at the Navy’s Coastal Systems Station (CSS) in Panama City, Florida. The services will be performed by BAE Systems Integrated Defence Solutions at Panama City.

BAE Systems supports the Coastal Systems Station’s Simulation Engineering Branch and Coastal Warfare Evaluation Systems office. Projects that BAE Systems supports include the Naval Mine Warfare Simulation; the Naval Visualisation Programme; the Autonomous Littoral Warfare Systems Evaluator; the Technology Requirements Model; and the Naval Simulation System among others.

BAE Systems' Panama City facility has been the largest supplier of modelling and simulation services to the Coastal Systems Station for more than 20 years, according to Dr. Lawrence Howell, Programme Manager for CSS. This contract is the unit's fourth consecutive award for similar work for the Navy in the last 13 years. "We are extremely pleased that the Navy continues to look to BAE Systems for its critical modelling needs," Dr. Howell said.

"Our partnership with Coastal Systems Station experts has provided the Navy with cutting edge modelling and simulation expertise in the areas of sonar and optic sensors, combat systems, acoustic countermeasures, and signal processing. This support has been vital to developments in littoral warfare mission areas." The Coastal Systems Station, one of the Navy’s major research, development, test, and evaluation laboratories, has expertise in science and technology, engineering, modelling and simulation, and test and evaluation. Its mission areas include littoral, mine, amphibious and special warfare, diving and life support, and coastal operations.