REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG - PT Len Industri (Persero), an Indonesian electronic instrument-producing company, has signed a contract for export of software used on warship missile destroyers or frigates for the second time in cooperation with multinational company Thales Netherlands. Currently, Len is the only company in Indonesia that has managed to make a CMS and has installed it in three warships.

"The project provides a new color in Len business, as man hours are being sold, which will provide a significant percentage of profits, while also providing a strategic advantage in defense industrial technology development," President Director of PT Len Industri Abraham Mosse said on Tuesday.

The contract was signed by Abraham and the CEO of Thales Netherlands Gerben Edelijn. According to Abraham, the cooperation aims at strengthening the fields of Naval Combat Management System and Integration Combat System in the future, especially that of missile destroyers or frigate programs.

"The cooperation is to assemble the Combat Management System (CMS) software that is being operated on frigate. The government has procured two ships of that type, in which PT Len and Thales are working on the CMS software that integrates the communication systems on the ships," he explained.

Meanwhile, the procurement of the ships was carried out in collaboration with the Dutch shipyard Damen Schelde Nabal Shipbuilding and Thales Netherlands as the leading integrator of sensors, weapons, and command (Sewaco).

The second contract contains the development of STING EO tracker software, MASS Decoy Launcher, and VL-MICA SAM.

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