Our collaboration with Raytheon has focused on providing the safety assurance aspects of the design, ensuring it met the highest standards, to support the successful firing of the laser system at full power demonstrating Frazer-Nash's ability to combine expertise from various domains to develop innovative solutions to new technologies, meeting regulatory requirements and ensuring safe operation.
We were able to tailor our approach to meet legislative requirements and developed safety critical strategies to demonstrate capabilities within a framework of strict regulations, against a programme moving at pace.
Drawing on our extensive expertise on high-energy systems and our experience with Land Systems, Frazer-Nash developed a comprehensive assurance framework, to ensure potential threats and hazards were identified and mitigated effectively.
Tim Andrews Business Unit Director Defence, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, comments:
“Our technical experts from across Frazer-Nash, including Systems Integration, Weapons Assurance and Sustainability & Environmental Assurance, combined with our specialist knowledge and experience from other industries, sectors and domains has been crucial in developing a pragmatic approach to Raytheon’s HELWs project in the UK.
By incorporating best practices and technical insights from various fields, we have created innovative solutions tailored to the project's unique demands. Our compliance recommendations provided a basis for the project’s success with its safe demonstration in the UK.”
