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ALL SYSTEMS GO!
Knowledge transfer - Applied Integration directors
Lee Raywood (left) and Garry Lofthouse (right) with
Teesside University senior lecturers Dr Peter Gregory
(second left) and Dr Joao Ferreira.
A Teesside firm is making waves by developing systems for the Royal Navy’s nuclear
attack submarines. Tees Business puts up its periscope and takes a closer look
I
N AN unassuming red brick building on
a bustling industrial estate in the North
Yorkshire countryside a team of highly
skilled engineers is busy working on
systems that will assist in the defence of the
nation.
It’s a far cry from the work Garry Lofthouse
and his fellow directors anticipated when
they set up Applied Integration less than 10
years ago but their business is fast becoming
a supplier of choice to key Ministry of
Defence projects.
Specialising in providing cutting edge
solutions to a wide range of 21st Century
industries, staff at the ambitious systems
integrator have spent several years working
a multi-million pound contract to design
and develop the Platform Management
System (PMS) for one of the world's
most sophisticated and powerful nuclear
submarines.
Already working on software design for
HMS Audacious and HMS Anson, Applied
Integration then won a deal to provide
the overarching control systems for two
more state-of-the-art submarines for the
Ministry of Defence and Royal Navy, HM Y