Integrated Ship Control Training System Development Program
Contracting Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Contract Summary: The US Navy awarded GlobalSim a contract to design, develop, and test an integrated ship control training system for two different classes of buoy tenders. The WLM buoy tender is a 175', twin z-drive ship with a standard bow thruster, whereas the WLB buoy tender is a 225', conventional screw-drive ship with both bow and stern thrusters. The design of each trainer permits the systems to be used as either an engineering simulator or an operational trainer. The hardware/software suite consists of actual operational equipment, simulated bridge assembly, computer workstations for the instructor station, radar simulation, electronic chart display and information system, and a dual computational system. The computational system is used to model all appropriate onboard systems and execute associated hydrodynamic and environmental models. All of the trainer components utilize standard commercial items ensuring a trainer that is both cost effective to purchase and easily supported.

 
Portable Training System Technologies
Contracting Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Contract Summary: GlobalSim developed and implemented a series of portable training systems to teach WLM operators how to effectively drive ships. The Portable Z-Drive Trainers (PZT) were delivered to the US Coast Guard to train operators/pilots of the 175' keeper class buoy tender with twin Z-drives. 18 systems are being used onboard for initial ship handling training.

 

Barge Ferry Trainer Development Program
Contracting Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Contract Summary: The US Navy awarded GlobalSim a contract to design and build the barge ferry training system. As part of the Navy Strategic Sealift Program, barge ferry pilots and coxswains serve as the primary operators of Navy Causeway Sections Powered and Side Loadable Warping Tugs. The barge ferry has unique controls and handling characteristics, requiring skills during operation that are highly perishable for pilots and coxswains involved with ownship maneuvering (i.e., retract, transit, and approach operations), casualty control, and ownship response during day, dawn/dusk, and nighttime operations.

Integrated Ship Control Training System Development Program
Contracting Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Contract Summary: The US Navy awarded GlobalSim a contract to design, develop, and test an integrated ship control training system for two different classes of buoy tenders. The WLM buoy tender is a 175', twin z-drive ship with a standard bow thruster, whereas the WLB buoy tender is a 225', conventional screw-drive ship with both bow and stern thrusters. The design of each trainer permits the systems to be used as either an engineering simulator or an operational trainer. The hardware/software suite consists of actual operational equipment, simulated bridge assembly, computer workstations for the instructor station, radar simulation, electronic chart display and information system, and a dual computational system. The computational system is used to model all appropriate onboard systems and execute associated hydrodynamic and environmental models. All of the trainer components utilize standard commercial items ensuring a trainer that is both cost effective to purchase and easily supported.

 
Portable Training System Technologies
Contracting Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Contract Summary: GlobalSim developed and implemented a series of portable training systems to teach WLM operators how to effectively drive ships. The Portable Z-Drive Trainers (PZT) were delivered to the US Coast Guard to train operators/pilots of the 175' keeper class buoy tender with twin Z-drives. 18 systems are being used onboard for initial ship handling training.

 

Barge Ferry Trainer Development Program
Contracting Agency: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Contract Summary: The US Navy awarded GlobalSim a contract to design and build the barge ferry training system. As part of the Navy Strategic Sealift Program, barge ferry pilots and coxswains serve as the primary operators of Navy Causeway Sections Powered and Side Loadable Warping Tugs. The barge ferry has unique controls and handling characteristics, requiring skills during operation that are highly perishable for pilots and coxswains involved with ownship maneuvering (i.e., retract, transit, and approach operations), casualty control, and ownship response during day, dawn/dusk, and nighttime operations.