(November 14, 2011 - 12:43 am) Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN) 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.

(September 26, 2011 - 10:00 am)
In occasion of its eleventh birthday Alfaproject.net, in collaboration with Kuehne + Nagel, will manage the meeting conference "The logistics future according the best Italian market players".
Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, represented by Mr Andrea Iunca, Operations Director of the Company, will attend the conference showing its innovative logistics vision.

The conference will be attended also by the Italian Navy and OCCAR representatives, who will illustrate the logistics process for the FREMM Frigates supplied by Orizzonte Sistemi Navali.

LOGISTICS VISION 2011 will be held in Milano (Italy), on 12th October 2011. Click here for more information on the event

July 16, 2011 - 04:30 pm

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

 

(NEWS 21/10/2010)

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.