USV Operational Readiness Review
A structured check of whether the vessel, the people and the paperwork are ready to go to sea and stay there.
What UMC does
Five core themes and four specialist services. Most engagements start with a readiness review and go where the findings point, but you can buy any one of these on its own.
Core themes
Remote Operations Centre Advisory
A control centre that runs to a watch routine, with roles, authority and continuity designed in before the first shift.
Regulatory and Stakeholder Engagement Support
The approval case, the flag and class route, and the conversations with ports and authorities that decide whether you operate.
Deployment Mobilisation Support
Getting a vessel, a team and a shore base into a new port and operating safely, on schedule.
Fractional Head of USV Operations
Senior uncrewed operations leadership on a set number of days a month, before you can justify the hire.
Specialist support
Trials, Commissioning and Acceptance
Trials that produce evidence, and an acceptance position you can defend.
Operator Training and Competence
A competence framework and training material that stands up when someone asks how you know your operators are capable.
Technical Due Diligence and Capability Assessment
An independent operational read on a vessel, a supplier or a programme, before you commit money to it.
Programme, Consortium and Bid Support
Operational credibility inside a bid, a consortium or an in-house capability build.
Where to start
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. Most first engagements are a short review, because it is the cheapest way to find out what is actually in the way.
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.