The GBS Group - The GBS Group - Consulting & Technical Services

Challenge:A mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) sustains damages to hull, legs and spud cans while moving off location; requiring emergency out-of-water dry docking to conduct repairs.

Solution: GBS provided experienced QA/QC inspection services and technical oversight to ensure compliance with Industry and Regulatory standards during the evaluation and repair.

GBS provided QA/QC support for a MODU that was undergoing major repairs.

Army Watercraft Service Life Extension Program (SLEP)
Customer:  Navy - NSWCCD-SSES

Challenge: Ship systems are obsolete due to age of design, but the U.S. Army wants to extend service life for up to an additional 15 years.

Solution: GBS provided engineering and design support to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), for Army LSV 1 Class and LCU 2000 Class Service Life Extension Programs (SLEP).

GBS supported the Army's Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) for the LSV 1 and LCU 2000.

Program and Project Management Support
Customer: Missile Defense Agency / through contract with The Boeing Company

Challenge: Convert a Moss CS-50 bare deck semi-submersible rig to a self-propelled offshore vessel ready to accept the 8,000-ton load radar that was constructed at a separate facility in Corpus Christi, TX in only 15 months from first cutting of steel to the start of sea trials.

Solution:  GBS provided marine engineering management and life cycle support to Boeing for the Sea Based X-Band (SBX) radar platform.

GBS has provided engineering support for the Sea Based X-Band (SBX) radar platform since its inception.

“It’s About the Passenger”

Wireless System Deployment to Enable Remote Health Monitoring – MEAP™
Customer: Amtrak

Challenge: Rolling Stock equipment consists of on-board sensors and computers that record real-time faults, often trapped or underutilized. The information available is powerful to prevent passenger disruption.

Solution: GBS designs and installs wireless solutions that automate the extraction and transmission of data.

         GBS has equipped electric locomotives operating along the Northeast Corridor with GPS-equipped wireless systems, providing real-time train location and health monitoring.

Deploy Cellular Wi-Fi on Amtrak’s Acela Trains
Customer: Amtrak

Challenge: Provide scalable Wi-Fi Internet access to customers aboard a high speed train operating in the United States Northeast Corridor

Solution:  GBS performed a technology analysis, pitting capabilities and experience of technology providers against Amtrak’s functional requirements.

As an end-to-end systems integrator, GBS conducted an analysis of multiple solutions and served as prime contractor to deploy Amtrak’s first Wi-Fi roll-out.

Mobile App for Power System Curtailment Programs
Customer: Verizon

Challenge: Verizon needed a remote control capability to monitor its power systems and be able to efficiently run their Curtailment programs, where they request that companies, which are compensated for participating, switch to backup power on their buildings to curtail power demand in an effort to avert power grid brown-outs.

Solution: GBS is providing this remote control monitoring as a subcontractor to Marine Interface based in East Northport on New York's Long Island.

GBS develops a mobile application for Verizon to monitor power systems, like this building power control panel above and the battery plant below.

Aging Fleet Condition Assessment Needed Before Extensive Overhaul
Customer: Maryland Transit Authority & Booz | Allen | Hamilton

Challenge: Maryland Transity Authority's (MTA) HHP-8 locomotives are approaching their 10-year service in 2012, which means each unit will undergo an extensive overhaul. In order to plan for the overhaul, The GBS Group conducted a Locomotive Condition Assessment, which focused on the process to develop a comprehensive overhaul specification.

Soultion:  Nearly 600 locomotive components were addressed and their respective recommendations were placed into a Recommendation Matrix. Recommendations include performing modifications, design change investigations, inspections, replacement of internal components, removal of obsolete equipment or no action required for overhaul. The majority of the recommendations require some type of evidence of need prior to complete component replacement. Components reaching their end of life (age limit) were recommended to be replaced.