The final delivery of the Italian FREMM 'Carlo BERGAMINI' was held today at the Fincantieri shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia).

This is the first of series of FREMM (European Multi Mission Frigates) ships ordered by the Italian Navy from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, within the framework of an agreement between Italy and France to build 10 vessel for Italy and 11 for France, with planned completion of all 21 frigates within 2022.

Italian FREMM have system configuration tailored on different operational tasks.

Key Points:

� The first green Frigate
� Stealth with unsurpassed low signatures
� High performance and reconfigurable combat system
� Hybrid propulsion system
� Optimized logistic support
� Optimized crew.

The ships are intended to operate at National level, and integrated in international missions, contributing to European, NATO and United Nations operations.

Main Characteristics:

- Length, overall: 144 m
- Displacement (around): 6,700 t
- Crew + extra Personnel: 145+55
- Propulsion:  CODLAG
- Speed:  > 27 kts

MAST’s tenth edition will take place at Amber Expo, Gdansk, Poland from Tuesday 4th to Thursday 6th June 2013.
Orizzonte Sistemi Navali will attend the Conference to share its own advanced methodologies used in training programs and the progress of its research activities.

OSN CONTRIBUTIONS:
- Foreign Navy Training Program
Mr. Stefano Cagnizzi (Session 5A – Wednesday 5th June: 8.30hrs)

- Deriving Naval Capability Requirements: Research Activity for Developing an Operational Evaluation Model
Mr. Francesco Perra (Session 5C – Wednesday 5th June: 8.30hrs)

For more information

The Italian Navy and Orizzonte Sistemi Navali have signed a contract for the development of an operational evalutaion model for to the Early Stage Design Phase.

The activities, started on 12nd March 2013, will be developed in a period of twelve months.

From Monday, November 12 to Tuesday, November 13, 2012 will be held in ITALY the NATO RDO meeting focused on the “Assessing mission effectiveness in the early stages of the warship design and procurement process”.

The event, organised by Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, aims at disseminating state-of-the-art scientific or technical knowledge among wider specialised audiences.

The III° review meeting of the research project with the Office Naval Research will be held in Rome (Italy), on 10 – 11 December, 2012.
Among the attendees of this session, the Office Naval Research (ONR), the Italian and the US Navies, the Royal Netherlands Navy.

The cooperation between the U.S. Department of the Navy – ONR and OSN, started in 2011, has been recently extended until September 2013.

In the period between the 22nd and the 26th of October will be held in Paris EURONAVAL 2012, one of the leading international exhibitions of the naval defence domain.

As usual, our Representatives will be present at Fincantieri and Finmeccanica exhibition spaces to show latest ships and naval solutions developed in our product portfolio, to reveal newest total ship design techniques made available by our engineers and, in general, to meet our Stakeholders in our fair facilities offering them, in the meanwhile, some tastes of Italy.

We would be honoured if You could visit us there. In order to welcome You as better as possible, we kindly ask You to get in contact with our Marketing Office at euronaval2012@orizzontesn.it.

OSN will attend the 11th International Marine Design Conference (11 - 14 Jun 2012, McCance Building, Glasgow - UK).

The aim of the Conference, organized by the University of Strathclyde, is to promote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline.
                                                       

OSN will show a paper titled “A Graphical User Interface to link ship design characteristics and naval task effectiveness”.

For more information

The Italian Navy and Orizzonte Sistemi Navali will attend the International Conference, which will be held in Singapore from 22 to 24 May 2012.
                                                                            
They will present the results of their collaboration regarding:
                                                                      
  - The Development of a Framework for an Integrated Evaluation of Operational Performances & Platform Features during Ship Design Trade Off Analysis
(Speakers: Capt. Sergio Simone, Italian Navy - Mr. Francesco Perra, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali)
 
 - ITALY'S FREMM FRIGATES PROGRAMME: A multiple industrial experience - multi approaches for multi results" 
(Speaker: Mr. Giuseppino Bellossi, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali) 
  
 - The impact of helicopters in Italian Navy vessels design
(Speakers: Capt. Sergio Simone, Italian Navy - Mr. Giuseppino Bellossi, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali)  

DTA 2012 is designed to be the world-class forum focused on Submarine & ASW; Naval Surface Ship Technologies and Unmanned Vehicle.

Click here for more information on the event

After the first ship 'Carlo Bergamini', launched in July 2011, today the Frigate 'Virginio FASAN' was launched at Fincantieri's shipyard in Riva Trigoso (Genoa).

This is the second of a series of FREMM (European Multi Mission Frigates) ships ordered by the Italian Navy from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, within the framework of an agreement between Italy and France.
'Virgino Fasan', is the first-of-class (FoC) ASW version vessel. 'Carlo Bergamini', launched a few months ago, is the first in multimission configuration.

The highly innovative design of the Italian FREMM Frigates, based on close functional and physical integration between platform, combat system and their logistic support, ensures high performance automated operations with a minimal crew.

The ships have a displacement at full load of 6,000 tonnes, a length of 140 m, a maximum beam of 20 m, a maximum speed of more than 27 knots, and an endurance of 45 days.
The double hangar will be able to carry 2 NH90 or 1NH90 and 1 EH101 helicopters.

Italian FREMM Key Points:

� The first green Frigate
� Stealth with unsurpassed low signatures
� High performance and reconfigurable combat system
� Hybrid propulsion system
� Optimized logistic support
� Optimized crew.

The ships are intended to operate at National level, and integrated in international missions, contributing to European, NATO and United Nations operations.

An important first steel cutting ceremony was held in non-public form in mid-January 2012 at Riva Trigoso Shipyard.
                                                                                         
The event refers to a ship ordered by a north African Mediterranean Country, probably the most powerful Landing Platform Dock never designed in Europe.

More details soon in “Focus on” section.

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, in a joint venture with other national Centers of Excellence has obtained a new project for the development of a support methodology to the Early Stage Design Phase by using an optimization process. The contract awarded by a primary national institution has a 24 months duration.

The cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Navy – ONR has been extended until September 2013.
The contract for the project relevant to the research in the field of operational effectiveness of ship concept design will continue on the basis of an additional agreement reached following the first review meeting of the project, held in Genoa in July 2011.

The II° review meeting of the research project with the Office Naval Research was held in Atlanta (Georgia), from January 13th, 2012.

Among the attendees of this session, the Office Naval Research (ONR), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Netherlands Ministry of Defense and the Center for Innovation in Ship Design (CISD).

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali will be present at LIMA 2011 Exhibition in Langkawi, Malaysia, from 6 to 10 December, in the Fincantieri area.

OSN is actively present in the South-East Asia area for proposing its MOSAIC ships, a very versatile family of Naval Vessels that can be tailored to the requirements of a modern Navy.

These ships, thanks to a Modular, Open-System Architecture, can be configured for very diversified missions, such as:

•  Off-Shore Patrol Vessels, suitable for Surveillance, SAR missions, anti-pollution duties;
•  Off-Shore Patrol Vessels for escort missions and self-defence capabilities;
•  Corvettes for Patrolling, Naval Group missions, Anti-Submarine Warfare;
•  Light Frigates for Combat missions and Anti-Air, Anti-Surface and Anti-Submarine Warfare capability.
 

OSN, together with its shareholders, Fincantieri and Selex Sistemi Integrati, takes full responsibility of the integration, performance and integrated logistic support of any warship.

Today at Fincantieri's shipyard in Riva Trigoso (Genoa) the ceremony to launch the 'Carlo Bergamini' was held.

This is the first of ten FREMM (European Multi Mission Frigates) ships ordered by the Italian Navy from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, within the framework of an agreement between Italy and France to build 21 vessels. Italian ships have system configuration tailored on different operational tasks.

'Carlo Bergamini', is the First of Class in MultiMission configuration, whose steel cutting started at Riva Trigoso in February 2008.

The highly innovative design of the Italian FREMM Frigates, based on close functional and physical integration between platform, combat system and their logistic support, ensures high performance automated operations with a minimal crew.

The ships have a displacement at full load of 6,000 tonnes, a length of 140 m, a maximum beam of 20 m, a maximum speed of more than 27 knots, and an endurance of 45 days.
The double hangar will be able to carry 2 NH90 or 1NH90 and 1 EH101 helicopters.

Italian FREMM Key Points:

� The first green Frigate
� Stealth with unsurpassed low signatures
� High performance and reconfigurable combat system
� Hybrid propulsion system
� Optimized logistic support
� Optimized crew.

The objective of contractual delivery is 2013 for the first frigate, followed by 4 Anti-Submarine ships and subsequently by the remaining General Purpose vessels. The last (of the 10 ships) will be delivered in 2021.

The ships are intended to operate at National level, and integrated in international missions, contributing to European, NATO and United Nations operations.


 

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, with the University of Genoa, the McLeod Institute of Simulation Science and the Liophant Simulation, is organizing the System of Systems Engineering Workshop (SoSE), which will take place at DIPTEM – University of Genoa, on 17 June 2011 (9.30 – 12.30 am).

Aim
System-of-Systems Engineering (SoSE) & Systems Engineering are related, but are different fields of study. Whereas traditional systems engineering focuses on individual systems (i.e., a ship), SoSE consider networks of legacy & new systems (e.g., ships, aircraft, communications networks) collaborating and therefore interacting with one another to satisfy multiple and complex higher-level objectives.

Programme

• Opening on Complex Systems & SoSE
   Prof. Agostino BRUZZONE
   Simulation Team, MISS Director
   Full Professor at DIPTEM University of Genoa

• Systems-of-Systems Engineering in ASDL
   Prof. Dimitri Mavris
   Director of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
   Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Applications of SoSE in Industry
  Natalino Dazzi, Engineering and Naval Architecture - Orizzonte Sistemi Navali
  Aldo Zini, Business and Marketing Department - Cetena

• Panel Discussion

 

OSN has obtained a research project by Office Naval Research (ONR - USA) focused upon investigating the benefits of integration ship design and operational effectiveness in the ship concept design process. OSN has been developing a framework, named ASNET (Application System for Naval Evaluation and Testing), that will be used as the basis for this research.

A primary objective and research approach shall be to link Design Synthesis Model and Operational Evaluation Model capability in a manner that will allow both optimization and trade-off evaluations to be conducted between ship characteristics (including cost) and operational effectiveness across all naval warfare domains.

Existing ASNET capability will be modified and expanded to encompass the research objectives of this project in order to prove the methodology and to understand its benefits. Two cases of interested of ONR and OSN will be considered:
- an offshore patrol vessel (OPV): requirements, especially speed, will be examined over a large interval; a wide range of design solution will be considered including classic deepV mono-hulls, as well as innovative hull shapes
- a specific ship proposed by ONR for which it will be analyzed the mid-life ship upgrade or conversion that enhances current mission capability and/or adds new mission sets to the ship operation.