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www.vanguardcanada.com OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2015 11 I INSIDE INDUSTRY "This is it," he says. "This is the land-based version of everything that goes onboard ship. Thirteen complete sets of everything you see here, plus what's on the roof." Lockheed Martin's Maritime Advanced Training and Test Site (MATTS) is a war- ship plunked down on the smooth pave- ment of Highfield Park Drive in Dart- mouth, only minutes away from CFB Halifax. It may not look overtly nautical, rising up at the end of a long parking lot in the form of a squat, three-story build- ing — but a view of "what's on the roof" gives it away. Glenn Copeland, Lockheed Martin Canada's naval programs manager, is a for- mer navy man. He's also an excellent tour guide, as luck would have it. After walking through the reception area, surrendering my phone, driver's license and hurriedly scribbling my name to a bunch of forms I haven't read, Copeland leads me into "the Land-Based Test Site." "There are 12 ships in the Halifax class," he begins, "and this is what they call the thirteenth ship set. It's all the real equip- ment." I stare around the room, taking in the range of shipboard systems that have been tricked into thinking they're blip- bleeping away on one of Canada's war- ships. As ship number 13, it becomes obvious very early on in the tour that Lockheed Martin Canada takes equipment testing rather seriously. "The frigate life extension actually had a bunch of various components to it." Copeland says. "In essence, there's the combat systems integration we brought, that we put forward and integrated, there's legacy systems, and there's other pieces that are brand new that the government brought that we then brought in." The suppliers that send equipment to the MATTS facility have already run their equipment through its own tests, but Lockheed Martin has the unenviable task of making it all seamlessly work together – kind of like the conductor of a multi- billion dollar digital symphony. Rosemarie Chapdelaine, Vice President and General Manager, Lockheed Martin Canada — another senior exec that works part-time as an informative tour guide — goes into more detail: "Each of our suppli- ers does their own factory acceptance tests, of their individual, standalone units. Before everything is delivered to us, whether it's our own products or our suppliers' prod- ucts, they go through a test to make sure the system is up and running and work- ing in their facility," she explains. "Then, it gets brought here and in some cases, we'll do a portion of the integration, flash up the systems, and then here it's really more the software piece." S co t t S a fe t y a re wo r l d l e a d e r s i n t h e d e s i g n a n d d eve l o p m e n t o f Re s p i ra to r y P ro te c t i o n Eq u i p m e n t ( R P E ) . We h ave a d e t a i l e d u n d e r st a n d i n g o f t h e p hys i o l o g i c a l a n d p syc h o l o g i c a l b u rd e n R P E c a n p l a ce o n u s e r s . Th a t i s w hy we te st i n t h e f i e l d . We a p p l y w h a t we l e a r n t h e re – a s we l l a s e m e rg i n g re s e a rc h a n d te c h n o l o g i e s to eve r y d e s i g n to e n s u re s u p e r i o r c a p a b i l i t y, f u n c t i o n a l i t y a n d co m fo r t . I r re s p e c t i ve o f w h e t h e r yo u r re q u i re m e n t i s fo r C B R N p ro te c t i o n , B re a t h i n g A p p a ra t u s fo r E O D, U SA R , D a m a g e Co n t ro l , L aw E n fo rce m e n t , F i re F i g h t i n g o r fo r s p e c i a l i st a p p l i c a t i o n s S co t t c a n m e e t yo u r re q u i re m e n t s - Co m fo r t a b l y OUR FOUNDATION IS OUR TECHNOLOGIES, OUR MISSION IS EXPANDING YOUR CAPABILITIES. For more information visit: ScottSafety.com/EMEA Follow us on Twitter @ScottSafetyEMEA Visit the Scott Safety stand at: DSEI 2015 15 - 18 September • Stand S4-451 Housed inside Lockheed Martin Canada's MATTS facility in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the crew of the 13th Halifax-class frigate is determined to find her weaknesses … so the sailors on the other 12 won't have to.

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