How ProjectVIEW ERP Applies to Naval & Defense Vessel Programs Managing Multi-Year, Program-Based Shipbuilding Naval and defense vessels are delivered under multi-year programs involving multiple hulls, phased deliveries, and evolving requirements. Commercial control must be maintained not only at vessel level, but across the entire program lifecycle. ProjectVIEW ERP enables shipyards to structure costs, budgets, and progress by hull, batch, and program phase, ensuring consistent financial governance across extended delivery timelines. Example:Track costs and performance separately for each hull while maintaining consolidated visibility across the full naval vessel program. Controlling Configuration, Compliance, and Change Defense shipbuilding is subject to strict configuration control, classification requirements, and regulatory oversight. Design changes, system upgrades, and compliance-driven modifications frequently occur during construction and refit phases. ProjectVIEW ERP provides structured change and configuration cost tracking, ensuring that compliance-driven scope changes remain visible, auditable, and commercially controlled. Example:Assess the financial impact of late system upgrades or specification changes required by defense authorities before they affect downstream production and outfitting activities. Managing Secure Supply Chains and Specialized Subcontractors Naval vessel programs rely on specialized suppliers, secure materials, and qualified subcontractors operating under strict contractual and security constraints. Delays or disruptions in these supply chains can significantly impact cost and schedule. ProjectVIEW ERP integrates procurement, subcontract management, and cost control to provide early visibility into supply-chain-driven risks and their commercial impact. Example:Identify cost exposure caused by delayed delivery of classified equipment or specialized systems and adjust production sequencing to minimize disruption. Hull-by-Hull Cost Control Inside the Program Every hull is a cost object of its own, and every hull also belongs to a batch and a program. ProjectVIEW ERP reports budget, commitment, actual cost and earned value (CPI, SPI) per hull, per batch and for the whole program. The learning curve from hull 1 to hull n is then visible in numbers, not estimates. Work Breakdown Aligned to Ship Systems and Build Stages Structure the WBS by ship system, following the yard’s own system-based breakdown (for example SWBS groups), and by build stage: blocks, modules, outfitting zones, testing and trials. Each WBS element is linked to cost codes and BoQ quantities. Cost can then be reported by system for the customer and by production stage for the yard, from the same data. Integration with Design and Planning Tools Quantities flow into BoQs from the naval architecture and marine design tools the yard already uses: AVEVA Marine, CADMATIC, NAPA, ShipConstructor, Maxsurf, Rhino 3D and AutoCAD, plus BIM models through .ifc files. Schedules stay synchronized with Oracle Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project. A design change becomes a costed, scheduled change, not a spreadsheet exercise. For the digital twin, ProjectVIEW ERP integrates with NVIDIA Omniverse through its Web APIs. It feeds live progress, procurement, resource and cost data per hull and block into the virtual yard, so simulation runs on real program data. Read more: Connecting ProjectVIEW ERP to NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac. Configuration Change and Audit Trail Every specification change, system upgrade or authority-driven modification is raised as a change request. It is costed against the affected BoQ and WBS items before approval and recorded with a full audit trail. This supports customer negotiations, contract amendments and government audit. Deployment and Data Control Defense programs often cannot put program data in a public cloud. ProjectVIEW ERP can be deployed on-premises inside the shipyard’s own infrastructure, or in the cloud on Microsoft Azure where that is permitted. DANAOS Projects holds ISO 27001 certification for information security. The company has its headquarters in the UAE and its R&D in Greece. What Naval Program Managers Measure with ProjectVIEW Cost and earned value per hull, per batch and per program Hull-to-hull cost reduction (learning curve) Value and status of open configuration changes Supply-chain delays and their cost exposure per system Subcontractor progress and certified value per work package Related reading: Military & Defence Naval Shipbuilding: design-to-build control · Surface Ships vs Submarines · Europe’s Maritime Resurgence: Shipbuilding ERP for REARM Europe FAQ: Naval Shipbuilding ERP What is naval shipbuilding ERP? An enterprise system that controls cost, schedule, procurement, production and change across multi-hull defense vessel programs. It reports per hull and per program, and keeps a full audit trail for the customer and the authorities. Can ProjectVIEW report costs and earned value per hull and per program? Yes. Each hull is a separate project within the program structure, with budget, commitments, actual cost and earned value. Results roll up to batch and program level. Can ProjectVIEW be deployed on-premises for defense programs? Yes. It can run on-premises in the shipyard’s own infrastructure, or in the cloud on Microsoft Azure where permitted. DANAOS Projects is ISO 27001 certified. Does it integrate with ship design and scheduling tools? Yes. It integrates with naval architecture and marine design software, including AVEVA Marine, CADMATIC, NAPA, ShipConstructor, Maxsurf, Rhino 3D and AutoCAD, for quantities, and with Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project for schedules. It also integrates with NVIDIA Omniverse through its Web APIs to feed live program data into the vessel digital twin. How are design and configuration changes controlled? Each change is raised as a change request, costed against the affected BoQ and WBS items, approved through a workflow and recorded with a full audit trail before production is affected. RELATED ASSETS Related Stakeholders Shipowner Shipbuilder