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Tech File Optimizing Blast and Paint Processes in New Construction Shipbuilding By Colin Gallagher, Director of Shipyard Optimization, BlastOne International The ef? cacy of surface preparation and coating appli- 1. Raw material entry cation in the new construction shipbuilding industry is 2. Painting
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Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so
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steps to implement the recommendations, such as stating Guard was required to obtain and report. Careful monitoring that it will begin to require shipbuilding programs to com- of migrant interdiction data is all the more important given plete the functional design of major systems before starting recent
Column space does not allow for a full description of all that evaluating USVs in broader and more intense set of missions. occurred at this three-day event, so I will focus on the key- • Australia has become a leader is USV experimentation. notes and panels that concentrated most-intently on uncrewed
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The REPMUS Exercise 2023 took place between September 11- 29, 2023 at the Portuguese Navy’s Operational Experimentation Center in Tróia and Sesimbra Navy facilities. The NATO Maritime Geospatial, Meteorological and Oceanographic Centre of Excel- lence directly supports the Portuguese Navy during this
EYE ON THE NAVY NATO GAINS EXPERIENCE WITH UNMANNED SYSTEMS All photos courtesy NATO By Edward Lundquist allies and partners have taken Messenger is in its second year. Both are conducted at the Navy advantage of recent demon- Operational Experimentation Centre in Tróia, one of two Por- NATO strations
Navy as it moves toward operational- shelf quadcopter drones are used to hack into smartphones izing Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO). and corporate wireless networks. To date, the focus of commercial maritime cybersecurity has While these may sound like plotlines from popular techno- been securing against
TECHNOLOGY IN FOCUS: DIGITALIZATION Images courtesy Navtor MR TV caught up with Tor Svanes, CEO, NAVTOR, earlier this year in Oslo. Where are we in terms of the use of data, the effective use of data in maritime? NAVTOR, Voyager Somewhere in the middle, I would say. The biggest challenge for all