Navy vessels are designed to operate in high-threat environments. These threats are becoming faster, more maneuverable, and more complex. Anti-ship missiles go three to five times faster than the speed of sound, with increasingly complex behavior. At the same time the possibilities of modern navy vessels to counter threats are also expanding. To aid combatting these threats and to improve the survivability, Thales is developing the Above Water Warfare – Fire Control System (AWW-FCS). The AWW-FCS Product is a next-generation fire control system that is able to integrate different weapon, effectors, and sensor systems, including Thales’s own high-end radar systems.

As a requirement engineer, Lianne ter Heegde, alumni of Applied Mathematics here at the UT, is part of the system engineering team of AWW-FCS. She writes and manages the requirements needed for the software development.