Operational Readiness Review
An independent check of whether the vessel, the people and the operating system are ready to deploy.
What UMC does
Practical, independent support across the full lifecycle of uncrewed surface vessel operations - from early operational planning and vessel commissioning through to offshore deployment and continuous remote operations.
Core services
Concept of Operations Development
The first document every approval route asks for, written so it answers the questions rather than raising them.
Vessel Commissioning and Sea Trials
A structured route from a finished build to a vessel that has been proven, accepted and handed over.
Remote Operations Centre Design
A control centre that runs to a watch routine, with roles, authority and continuity designed in before the first shift.
Regulatory and Stakeholder Engagement
The approval case, the flag and class route, and the conversations with ports and authorities that decide whether you operate.
Delivery and leadership
Deployment and Mobilisation Support
Getting a vessel, a team and a shore base into a new port and operating safely, on schedule.
Remote Operations and Mission Support
Experienced operational leadership on the end of the link while the mission is actually running.
Operator Training and Competence
A competence framework and training material that stands up when someone asks how you know your operators are capable.
Operational Troubleshooting and Recovery
Help when a programme has stopped working and the reasons are not all technical.
Fractional Operations Director
Senior operations leadership on a set number of days a month, before you can justify the hire.
Client-Side USV Representation
Your operator in the room, on your side of the table, while somebody else builds and sells you a vessel.
Free, no charge
The USV Operational Readiness Checklist
Not ready to talk to a consultant yet? Forty-two questions you can work through on your own first, and a fair idea of where you actually stand.
Where to start
Most engagements start with a readiness review, because it is the cheapest way to find out what is actually in the way. Some start with a single document that has been blocking everything else, and some start with a phone call about a programme that has stopped moving.
If you are not sure which of these you need, describe the vessel and the obstacle and you will get a straight answer, including the answer that UMC is not the right fit.
Strategy and operational advisory
Underneath all of it sits the same work: capability assessment, operating-model development, technology selection, and turning a project objective into an operation that can actually be delivered. That runs through every service below rather than being sold separately, and it is what a first conversation is usually about.
Three shapes of engagement
Scope and price agreed in writing before anything starts. The first conversation costs nothing.
A short review
A few days looking at what you have, ending in a findings register split into blocking, conditional and advisory, with an owner and a route to close each one.
A fixed piece of work
A CONOPS, a procedure set, a ROC specification, a trials campaign, a regulatory roadmap. Scope, output and price agreed in writing before anything starts.
Retained days
A set number of days a month as your acting head of USV operations, or across a bid, a mobilisation or a capability build. Month by month, with a notice period.
Not sure which one you need?
Describe the vessel and the obstacle. If UMC is not the right fit, you will be told so.