A project titled “the first independent medium-maintenance and modification-and-conversion project of a submarine”, which was chaired by Professor Zhu Shijian of the Naval Engineering University of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), won the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award at the 2011 National Science and Technology Award Conference held recently. This is another gratifying achievement made by the university in exploring all-system and full-lifecycle support mode of ships.
Through painstaking investigation, study, assessment and coordination, the scientific research team led by Professor Zhu Shijian has established a support technology responsibility system participated in by more than 200 organizations including local industrial departments, the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) of the PLA and the Equipment Research Institute of the PLA Air Force, incorporated 86 qualified military and civilian manufacturers into the system of qualified maintenance service providers, and selected over 500 well-known domestic experts of all trades and professions to form a panel of experts for equipment and technical support of the PLA naval ships, establishing a military-civilian integrated support system with a clear-cut administrative structure, specific responsibilities and shared resources.
Up to now, the research team has made a great leap forward from carrying out emergency support at the beginning of its establishment to developing top-level design and planning of equipment technical support, making decisions and proposals, and solving major technical problems arising in all-system and full-lifecycle support, etc.
