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Kim Pedersen and Lars Duhn.

Cadmatic ME Production

CADMATIC CEO Jukka Rantala (left) and

Kymdata CEO Jyrki Metsola.

ing divisions. Premo Sabbatini has been promoted to vice president of central planning and process excellence at

Ingalls Shipbuilding. He succeeds Rick Spaulding, who has accepted a position as vice president of business pro- cess standardization at Newport News Shipbuilding.

CADMATIC Acquires Kymdata, CADS Software

CADMATIC has acquired Finnish software company

Kymdata Ltd. including the entire share capital as well as IPRs to all Kymdata’s CADS software and its business agreements. The acquisition increases CADMATIC’s es- timated turnover to EUR 28 million. With the addition of Kymdata’s 43 employees, CADMATIC will employ over 200 people. Kymdata’s CADS Electric software is a leader in electrical and automation design in Finland and Estonia.

S. Korea Plans Autonomous Ship Research Facility

UIPA, the South Korean Information and Communica- tion Technology Promotion Agency, awarded Kongsberg

Digital the contract to supply a fully-featured bridge simulator for a new autonomous ship research facility in

Ulsan, South Korea. The Korean government has com- mitted to invest $110 million in the project over the next three years, with a goal of starting operations in 2023.

The simulation contract is being delivered through mari- time ICT convergence specialists eMARINE Global.

The simulator will be used primarily for research and development of navigational equipment and display sys- tems, and will facilitate testing of autonomous vessel technologies in a safe virtual environment before trials in a designated autonomous ship test bed. www.marinelink.com 51

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