Higher status for two Navy organisations

By Davis Miers

The Centre for Maritime Engineering (CME, Mr Ian O’Hara) and the Logistics Support Agency - Navy
(LSA-N, Mr Bill Coombes) are now provisional “Authorised Engineering Organisations” under the new Navy System of Technical Regulation.

On October 1 the Chief Naval Engineer, Commodore Tim Barter, advised both organisations that as they now meet the necessary technical regulatory requirements, he had granted them provisional AEO status.

CNE presented certificates to both organisations at the recent Naval Symposium. CME and LSA-N are the first ADO organisations to be accredited as AEOs under the Navy Technical Regulatory System (NTRS).

The NTRS has been introduced into Navy and DMO in order to provide CN with assurance that when organisations such as the LSA-N, CME and the SPOs provide technical services to the Fleet, his ships and submarines will be fit for naval service, safe, and environmentally compliant.

The NTRS ensures this by accrediting organisations such as the LSA-N and CME as Authorised Engineering Organisations (AEOs).

CDRE Barter said that he was very pleased to see these two organisations among the first to be accredited.

“This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by everyone involved, and sets the foundation for the on-going development of technical regulation. Both organisations still have work to do within their own business systems, but the effort and progress made so far has been excellent.”

In accepting the certificates, Bill Coombes and Ian O’Hara said that technical regulation was becoming more important to the way business was being conducted, and by being among the first organisations accredited, they both now had a significant business advantage when providing technical services to their customers.

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