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DISC: Experience the power of advanced simulation, immersive engineering, and real-time collaboration

DISC combines advanced simulation technology, immersive digital tools, and BMT’s deep domain expertise to help you de-risk decisions, optimise design, and accelerate delivery.

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DISC: Where innovation becomes advantage

Imagine. Create. Transform

Welcome to the Digital Innovation and Simulation Centre (DISC), BMT’s premium environment for accelerated problem solving, immersive engineering, and digital experimentation.

Visualise complex ideas, accelerate confidence, and bring solutions to life, faster. Based in Fareham, DISC gives customers a secure, high-performance space to explore solutions, test ideas, and bring complex concepts to life.

  • Engaging stakeholders through immersive demonstrations and real-time visualisation time 
  • Exploring options faster, with safe, controlled, high fidelity simulation environments
  • Strengthening decision confidence using validated models and digital tools
  • Connecting global teams through remote-ready collaboration technology

From ship walkthroughs and incident modelling to VR/AR training and autonomous system simulation, DISC puts powerful capability at your fingertips, enabling confident, evidence-based decisions.

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A smarter way to design, test, and decide.

Enhanced stakeholder engagement

Immerse clients, partners and teams in live, interactive digital environments that bring strategy, design, and solutions to life.

Digital storyboarding for decision makers

Translate complex ideas into clear, compelling visual narratives for senior leaders and investors.

Ship design reviews and CAD flythroughs

Explore detailed digital walkthroughs to reduce design risk and accelerate approvals.

VR/AR/MR training

Deliver realistic, repeatable training environments for crews and operators without operational disruption.

Cyber response and recovery wargaming

Rehearse incident scenarios, strengthen resilience, and enhance organisational readiness.

Digital twins

Model real world assets to optimise performance, support autonomy, and enable predictive operations. 

Multi-vessel simulation and incident analysis

Assess complex multi-asset scenarios and refine operational strategies.

Bridge layout and human factors analysis

Evaluate human–machine interfaces to improve safety and crew performance.

Safe-to-work and prior-to-boarding training

Prepare personnel for hazardous or high value environments using controlled, risk-free simulations.

Incident response and operational planning

Model, rehearse, and refine responses to real-world operational challenges.

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Features and benefits

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Engage stakeholders

Communicate value with more impact through immersive demonstrations and real-time visualisation.

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Explore options faster

Reduce risk before real-world deployment in safe, controlled, high-fidelity simulation environments.

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Strengthen decision confidence

Enhance assurance using immersive evidence, shortening decision cycles using validated models and digital tools.

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Harness the power of digital

Foster curiosity, agility, and continuous learning using the latest technology.

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Connect global teams

Remote-ready, real-time collaboration technology.

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Standards-aligned

Aligned with UK MOD and international safety and procurement standards.

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Configurable environmental conditions

Configurable environment settings: wind, swell, currents, visibility, traffic.

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Flexible multi-platform deployment

Full mission bridges, 360° tug/OSV, laptop and mini-bridge setups

Success stories

The next generation of navigation solutions

The growing size and number of vessels in the global cruise fleet requires the industry to raise the bar for navigation technology to ensure it meets the highest standards of safety.

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Harnessing simulation across the autonomous systems development lifecycle

As the maritime industry embraces the transformative potential of autonomy, developers face a unique challenge: how to innovate in a space where standards are still emerging, and trust in uncrewed systems is not yet fully established. 

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