KMSS wins Canadian Navy contract

The Canadian Navy has awarded Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS) a $1.75m contract to supply 63 navigational part task trainers to Naval Reserve and regular force units across Canada. The contract will provide field deployable simulators to give ship officers the ability to undertake self study in ship handling and navigation skills, says KMSS. Simulators will be installed at 24 establishments across the country, including the Naval Officer Training Centre, Canadian Forces Naval Operations School and Naval Reserve Headquarters. To allow distance learning the part task trainer has a learning management system coupled with an electronic tutor. This allows the student to log-on to the system and select a training exercise from the library. The electronic tutor will then guide the student through the exercise providing instructions and reactions to the situations encountered. Finally students are automatically evaluated and the results are saved in a database.