By integrating BAE Systems' Prophesea product with Datifex's SeaReady™ solution, Fleetway is delivering a comprehensive solution that transforms how defence organizations sustain complex assets.

With the global geopolitical landscape more turbulent and unpredictable than it has been for some time, nations are under increasing pressure to maximize the operational availability of their critical physical assets.

Failure to do so could put national security and the lives of military personnel at risk – not to mention significantly increasing the financial burden of those assets.

Nations need to establish a digital thread that runs throughout their asset management operations. As such, the key to success lies in connecting sustainment enablers across engineering, maintenance and supply chains – in close partnership with industry.

The Sustainment Challenge

Data lies at the heart of defence decision-making. For organizations managing complex assets like naval vessels or land vehicles, the digital thread connecting design, manufacturing, operations and maintenance provides the foundation for effective sustainment. This requires a robust system of record that integrates disparate data sources, providing a single, trustworthy source of truth.

Delivering this is no mean feat given that today’s complex physical assets are typically managed through a multitude of systems sitting across different parts of an organization's infrastructure. What’s more, these systems are often unable to communicate with each other, resulting in siloed data and a lack of visibility across assets.

Yet, even if organizations are able to generate a holistic view of asset data, a significant challenge remains; namely, how to quickly extract actionable insights from this wealth of information in a way that unlocks strategic advantage in the most demanding of environments. When planning maintenance periods or assessing operational readiness, how can teams effectively determine the root cause of a particular issue? Or its prevalence across the fleet? How can they collaboratively resolve complex issues? Or deconflict activities during docking work periods?

Finding the answers to these questions in a timely manner can be difficult, yet doing so is critical to ensuring assets remain mission-ready.

Maximizing Material Readiness
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For defence organizations, it all comes down to reducing the cognitive burden of managing complex assets to maximize readiness. Leveraging digital solutions to transform how teams understand, communicate and act on asset information can deliver tangible outcomes including:

• Reduced work period durations through more efficient planning and execution
• Increased operational availability
• Improved allocation of maintenance resources
• Enhanced collaboration between all sustainment stakeholders
• Greater confidence in asset condition and mission readiness
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A Powerful Collaboration
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Of course, this challenge isn’t easy for any one organization to solve alone, which is why collaboration across industry is so important.

The integration leverages the strengths of both platforms to create a seamless sustainment ecosystem and deliver end-to-end asset intelligence. Prophesea integrates and centralizes critical asset data from multiple sources while SeaReady transforms this data into an intuitive, web-based 3D environment that makes complex information immediately comprehensible. The lightweight 3D models are accessible from any device, ensuring that all stakeholders – from contractors to engineers and commanders – can access critical asset information regardless of location.

The solution integrates work packages directly with technical data, mapping engineering changes, defects and maintenance items to their specific locations within the asset model. As a result, users can immediately see not just what needs attention, but precisely where issues are located and how they relate to surrounding systems and components.

By visualizing the material state of assets and providing filtering capabilities based on criticality, system or location, the integrated platform enables teams to identify patterns and optimize maintenance planning. Users can quickly assess the scope of issues, evaluate historical maintenance data, and determine the most effective intervention strategy.

The web-based platform breaks down geographical and organizational barriers, enabling real-time collaboration between distributed teams. Shipyard personnel, maintenance crews, engineers, and operators can share the same visual understanding of asset condition, creating a foundation for more effective communication and coordinated action.

The Path Forward
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Ultimately, in today’s digital-heavy defence environment, empowering users to easily access and interact with disparate sources of information will be key to success. This is what will enable nations to create shared situational awareness in support of better and faster decision-making.

As defence organizations continue their digital transformation journeys, transforming complex asset management will provide the foundation for next-generation sustainment capabilities that deliver what matters most: mission readiness when it counts.

Halifax, Nova Scotia – September 11th, 2024

Funding from Innovative Solutions Canada is supporting a new partnership between Datifex and the Halifax Port Authority (HPA) to use innovative technology for enhancing safety measures at the Port of Halifax. The project will test how the DATIVerse™ platform combines and analyzes various data in real-time, helping HPA staff manage port operations and efficiency.

DATIVerse™ is a software platform that brings together data, logic, and controls into lightweight, interactive virtual environments to create industrial metaverses. The technology aims to improve safety and efficiency by providing a complete view of operations, helping foresee and tackle potential problems, and enhancing situational awareness and decision-making.

Innovative Solutions Canada is an initiative designed to help Canadian startups and small/medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) overcome technology testing and development hurdles so that they can produce globally demanded products and services, while also improving government operations. It will also assist Transport Canada in understanding how industrial metaverses can improve port safety and operations.

The project is a joint effort that started at The PIER (Port Innovation, Engagement and Research), a living lab dedicated to solving complex problems in transportation, supply chain, and logistics industries established by the Halifax Port Authority.

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‍“It’s fantastic to be collaborating with Transport Canada and the Halifax Port Authority at The PIER. With DATIVerse™, Datifex is set to enhance port operations, leveraging our expertise to support Canada’s vision for digitalized ports. This initiative demonstrates the ability of the ISC program to get innovations in the hands of end users to improve safety and efficiency at Canadian ports.”

- Chris Erickson
CEO
Datifex
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"DATIVerse creates a digital twin of the port environment. Then, by aggregating real-time data, incorporating AI, and utilizing Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality (AR/VR,) it will provide stakeholders with exceptional situational awareness. The platform will lead to enhanced safety protocols, optimized workflows, and streamlined decision-making."

- Corey Gleason
Deputy Harbour Master
Halifax Port Authority

Duratek participated in the Korea–Czech Space & Aviation Forum held from April 9–10, 2025, in Seoul and Daejeon. The forum was co-hosted by the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Korea, and the Czech Ministry of Transport, with the aim of strengthening bilateral cooperation in the space and aerospace sectors (KASA source).

[Participation & Delegation]
The event brought together 24 institutions and companies from both countries.
From the Czech side: Czech Ministry of Transport, Czech Space Alliance, Brno Space Cluster, UDX.aero, HiLASE, and others.
From Korea: Duratek, KASA, KARI, KAI, Hanwha, LIG Nex1, Satrec Initiative, and more leading firms in the aerospace domain.

[Key Activities]
Technical Exchange Session (April 9): Presentations were delivered by Czech and Korean companies across areas such as satellite technology, launch vehicles, and data analysis. Duratek showcased its cutting-edge solutions and space-grade power systems.

- B2B Meetings: One-on-one business discussions were held to identify potential partnerships and cooperation models.
- High-Level Diplomatic Meetings (April 10): Talks focused on MOU opportunities, human resource exchanges, and Czech delegation visits to Korea’s aerospace sites.
- Site Visits: The Czech delegation toured major Korean aerospace facilities including KARI, LIG Nex1, Satrec Initiative, TelePIX, and Nara Space.

On July 21 (local time), at the Korea Pavilion of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2025 in Malaysia, the booth of Korean SME Augmented Knowledge Corporation drew attention. When visitors wore a mixed reality (MR) headset resembling goggles, a 3D image of the landing gear of a Boeing 737 appeared before their eyes. Instructions on how to open the brake section of the landing gear were displayed on the screen, and the same content was read aloud. When the user said “Next page,” the display advanced to the next step.

The Korea Pavilion at the event was organized by the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) and the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), who brought together a group of mid-sized and small defense firms. Their leadership in establishing the pavilion is seen as a signal to international buyers that the Korean government stands behind its SMEs as a strong partner.

When Augmented Knowledge Corporation, an SME utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), demonstrated their technology to visitors wearing MR headsets, large crowds quickly gathered. A company representative explained, “We’ve trained an AI model on hundreds of thousands of pages of aircraft maintenance manuals, then rendered the procedures in virtual 3D.” The representative added, “According to aviation safety law, maintenance tasks must strictly follow the manual. Our virtual display and voice-guided system help improve operational efficiency by enabling technicians to follow instructions step by step.”

CEO Keun-Sik Cho of Augmented Knowledge further noted, “This technology can even be used for actual aircraft repairs,” and emphasized that “work time can be reduced by half.”

The system is already in use at several Korean aviation science high schools. Under Korean aviation law, aircraft maintenance training institutions are required to own at least three real aircraft, but the company’s solution was granted a regulatory exemption through the government's regulatory sandbox program in 2021.

CEO Cho added, “We are currently preparing for a collaboration with GE Aerospace, a major U.S. aircraft engine manufacturer,” and expressed ambitions to expand into the aviation education and MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) markets in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia.