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agreement. These should be signed shortly. ‘The team has also produced a technology the design team activities.
Concept phase activities have been split into strategy. This covers how alternative This so-called ‘QBD’ consortium is
two parts. The first has concentrated on technologies will be identified and providing technical advice in a range of
what form the major system functions will introduced into the submarine design in a specific disciplines including safety advice
take, including propulsion, combat systems, controlled way to contribute to achieving an and hazard management, whole boat design,
and strategic weapon systems. affordable programme, both in terms of unit requirements and acceptance, product/
Informed by these outputs and their production cost and whole life costs.’ technology assessment and integration,
attendant option sets, a second phase of The concept design process will see systems concepts, and design management.
concept work is now seeking to develop a quarterly reviews to ensure the concept In a further development, BAE Systems
coherent and costed submarine design that design is being developed in line with the Submarine Solutions and Rolls-Royce
will meet the overall requirement, and meet MoD’s requirements. The first of these, have signed a statement of strategic intent
affordability criteria (both in terms of unit conducted in December 2007, considered setting out a collaborative framework to
production cost and whole life cost). the initial configuration of the Successor deliver the propulsion element of the
According to BAE Systems Submarine submarine design. Successor programme.
Solutions, deliverables for the concept phase To support delivery of the programme Rolls-Royce, as design authority for all
include ‘21 papers setting out the strategy the FSM IPT requires independent and Royal Navy nuclear steam raising plants,
for specific systems and major equipment in impartial expert technical support to is undertaking concept phase studies for
the design, 19 addressing specific aspects of provide assurance and confidence in the a next generation nuclear propulsion
the whole boat design, [and] 11 detailing the technical activities underpinning an effective plant (NGNPP) for the new SSBNs
design process strategies’. concept design. Following competition, a and the projected follow-on maritime
BAE Systems adds that the joint project team of QinetiQ, BMT Defence Services, underwater future capability.
team has now developed and delivered ‘an and Deloitte has been contracted as The primary drivers for NGNPP are
early version of the client’s design strategy client adviser (technical) to support the a simpler and intrinsically safer design,
papers that must be delivered at the end programme, its tasks covering the full range and less onerous demands on shore
of the concept design phase’. It continues: of concept phase outputs, concurrent with facilities.WT
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