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interview www.vanguardcanada.com AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2019 11 Q We understand that the CSC project is currently undergoing the requirements reconciliation phase. Can you give any indication as to how it is progressing and when you see it being completed? The requirements reconciliation phase al- lows us to more thoroughly examine the design and review how all requirements are met. As the great majority of systems were selected during the selection process, this phase does not provide an opportunity to select different systems to replace what was competitively bid; Canada and ISI will not reopen the system selection process. Currently, Canada is working closely with Irving Shipbuilding Inc. (ISI) as the prime contractor and the selected design team, led by Lockheed Martin Canada (LMC), to progress this work which is expected to be completed later this year. Throughout the definition phase, the team will focus on getting the design right to ensure that the combatants will meet the needs of the Royal Canadian Navy for the service life of the CSC ships. Requirements reconciliation is the first of four phases of the design process. Dur- ing this phase, the team is focused on ensuring the ship and its performance requirements are well defined and incor- porated into the system requirements document, which incorporates all of the necessary elements from the starting point Type 26 ship with Canada's specific re- quirements for the CSC ships. Q Industry had an expectation that once the winning bidder was selected, opportunities to bid on contracts would be forthcoming. Given that the require- ments reconciliation phase has yet to be completed, this expectation is now un- derstood to be premature. That said, how and when do you see industry participa- tion eventually unfolding? Moreover, is the Government of Canada planning any announcement to clarify the situation to industry, or will that be the responsibility of the prime contractor (Irving)? Irving Shipbuilding Inc. (ISI) is Canada's prime contractor for the CSC project. Fol- lowing the competitive procurement pro- cess to select the warship design and design team, and to a large extent the systems and equipment that have been designed into the ship, Lockheed Martin Canada (LMC) was awarded the CSC Definition Subcon- tract. LMC's bid brings together a consor- tium of subcontractors. As part of the competitive process, bid- ders were evaluated on their Value Propo- sition (VP) commitments. Lockheed Mar- tin Canada's Value Proposition includes opportunities for Canadian industry to participate in the CSC project, which al- lows them to showcase their world-class T he Government of Canada and Irving Shipbuilding Inc. ran a competitive process for the selection of a ship design and design team. The process re- quired bidders to provide a proposal that met all of the Request for Proposal requirements. As part of the selection process completed in February 2019, the bidders had to provide information and identify the major equipment and systems that would be integrated in their design to meet Canada's requirements. Known as "requirements reconciliation," this phase entails the examination of the selected design to better understand the details of how it meets Canada's requirements. Based on this background, we talked to Commodore Luciano Carosielli, Project Manager, Canadian Surface Combatant, about the requirements reconciliation phase, opportunities for industry, when the first ship will be built, and changes in the design to meet Canada's requirements. Since joining the Canadian Navy in June 1990, Commodore Carosielli has served in many positions including: the Canadian Forces Naval Engineering School as the Labo- ratory Support Officer; the Commandant; Navy's Applications Manager (DMMS 6-2) in Director General Maritime Equipment Program Management (DGMEPM); Naval Technical Officer Career Manager; Joint Operations Centre Information Management Officer at Joint Forces Command in Naples, Italy; Director Maritime Training & Es- tablishment 2 (DMTE 2); Combat Systems Engineering Manager for the Halifax Class Modernisation/Felex Life Extension (HCM/FELEX) project; and Chief of Staff and Deputy Project Manager for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project. In November 2017, Commodore Carosielli was appointed Project Manager, CSC, and promoted to his current rank. Combatant

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