Tridentis Wins USCG Marine Safety Center Support Contract

Tridentis was recently awarded a five year $2M contract by the United States Coast Guard Marine Safety Center (MSC), to continue to provide on-site Electrical Engineering support for commercial vessel plan review activities.  Tridentis has been performing this work at the MSC since 2015.

The MSC is charged with supporting Officers in Charge, Marine Inspection (OCMI) by ensuring commercial vessels are designed and built in compliance with governing regulations and standards. This function is conducted through vessel plan review typically before ships are built or modified. The timeliness and quality of MSC’s review of each plan review activity affects vessel delivery schedules and construction costs and thus has a large impact on vessel owners, vessel operators, ship designers, and builders in addition to supporting the OCMI’s field inspectors.

The types of analysis that Tridentis will perform on this contract include:

• Electrical Load Analysis

• Electrical One Line Diagrams

• Electrical Switchboard

• Emergency Generator and Switchboard

• Fire and Gas Detection

• Portable Accommodation Modules

• Hazardous Areas

• Propulsion Control

• Steering Control

• Lighting

• Cargo Gauging

• Plan Approval Extension (PAE)

• Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)

• Design Verification Test Procedures

• Periodic Safety Test Procedures

• Dynamic Positioning System (DP)

• DP FMEA

• DP Proving Trials

• DP Operations Manual

• Automation

• Coordination Studies

• Short Circuit Analysis

• New technology (i.e. Lithium-ion, Hydrogen fuel, Solar, etc.)

• Oversight

• Autonomous Vessels

• Remote Controlled Vessels

• LNG as Fuel

• LNG Bunker Vessels