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DCNS and French defence procurement agency (DGA) test shipboard video system

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Naval Industry News - France
 
 
 
DCNS and French defence procurement agency (DGA) test shipboard video system
 
DCNS and French defence procurement agency DGA recently tested a shipboard video management system designed to speed up decision-making in areas of operations. The tests in Toulon harbour were part of a contract awarded to DCNS by the DGA in early 2013 after a competitive bidding process and as a follow-up to the Globalinfo technical/operational study to assess the benefits to the French Navy of a video recording and replay system.
     
DCNS and French defence procurement agency DGA recently tested a shipboard video management system designed to speed up decision-making in areas of operations. The tests in Toulon harbour were part of a contract awarded to DCNS by the DGA in early 2013 after a competitive bidding process and as a follow-up to the Globalinfo technical/operational study to assess the benefits to the French Navy of a video recording and replay system.
With the help of French Navy, the experiment enabled the partners to evaluate the operational and technical performance of a range of high-performance systems
Picture: DCNS

     
The tests were conducted with a range of existing equipment and prototypes by the Sol@ris concept development and evaluation facility at the Group’s Le Mourillon centre near Toulon to evaluate the contribution of a video management system to operational decision-making processes.

The study and tests were conducted in partnership with:
• The Thales optronics business, a specialist in search, surveillance, observation and identification systems, particularly based on high-performance thermal imagers
• Barco, a specialist in image processing and display systems, which deployed a set of new-generation scenario management and decision-support tools.

The tests are part of the continuing effort to meet the needs of naval forces on protection and security missions in the fight against terrorism, piracy, drug trafficking and other threats. The lessons learned will enable DCNS and its partners to continue their work on the design and integration of video technologies into state-of-the-art information systems. “With real-time, on-screen video imagery from high-performance sensors, our operators have access to additional information about targets and their intentions that may be crucial in maintaining the tactical advantage,” said Maurice Isidore, Director of DCNS Le Mourillon.

With the help of French Navy, the experiment enabled the partners to evaluate the operational and technical performance of a range of high-performance systems:
• new-generation thermal cameras from the Sophie, Catherine and Suzie families developed by Thales
• video wall technology, multi-input display controller software and a lossless real-time video streaming technology, all developed by Barco
• the DCNS Survi® (SUrveillance Radar Video & Infrared) system, comprising a radar, a high-definition camera, an Automatic Identification System (AIS) antenna, a weather station and a communications subsystem
• a multi-screen immersive situation awareness console developed by DCNS to display and analyse the different types of video imagery.