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Command Materiel And IT
The Dutch Materiel and IT Command (COMMIT) (, COMMIT), formerly known as the Dutch Defence Materiel Organization (DMO), is a Dutch government agency that reports to the Ministry of Defence (Netherlands), Ministry of Defence. The agency is responsible for the supply of materiel for the Netherlands Armed Forces, Dutch armed forces. It is located in Utrecht. In April 2023 a name change for the organization was announced. It changed from ''Defence Materiel Organization'' to ''Materiel and IT Command''. Organization Defensie Munitiebedrijf Defensie Munitiebedrijf (DMunB) is part of COMMIT and counts around 100 employees. It has the largest munitions complex of Western Europe. DMunB is responsible for delivering munitions to the armed forces that can be used during operations and exercises. Maritime Systems Division The Maritime Systems Division (Dutch: Afdeling Maritieme Systemen; AMS) is the maritime engineering office of the Dutch Ministry of Defence. It focuses on designing, de ...
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Government Of The Netherlands
The Netherlands is a Parliamentary system, parliamentary representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, the country is organised as a Decentralization, decentralised unitary state.''Civil service systems in Western Europe'' edited by A. J. G. M. Bekke, Frits M. Meer, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000, Chapter 7 The Netherlands can be described as a Consociationalism, consociational state. Dutch politics and governance are characterised by a common striving for broad Consensus decision-making, consensus on important issues, within both of the political community and society as a whole. Constitution The Dutch Constitution lists the basic Civil rights, civil and social rights of the Dutch citizens and it describes the position and function of the institutions that have executive, legislative and judiciary power. The constitution applies to the Netherlands, one of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands comprises all of the European t ...
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Arie Jan De Waard
Arie is a masculine given name. As a Dutch name, Arie *Arie Altman (Plant Biology and AgBiotech) (born 1937), Israeli Professor of Agriculture * (1903–1982), Dutch composer *Arie van Beek (born 1951), Dutch music teacher and conductor *Arie Bieshaar (1899–1965), Dutch footballer (''Adrianus'') *Arie Bijl (1908–1945), Dutch theoretical physicist and resistance member *Arie Bijvoet (1891–1976), Dutch footballer *Arie Bodek (born 1947), American experimental particle physicist and professor *Arie van den Brand (born 1951), Dutch GreenLeft politician *Arie van de Bunt (born 1969), Dutch water polo player (''Arend'') *Arie Carpenter or "Aunt Arie" (1885–1978), American woman portrayed in the play ''Firefox'' *Arie van Deursen (1931–2011), Dutch historian * (1927–1998), Dutch computer scientist (''Adrianus'') *Arie Dvoretzky (1918–2008), Russian-born Israeli mathematician (''Aryeh'') *Arie Evegroen (1905–1988), Dutch schipper who prevented a flood in 1953 *Arie Freiberg ...
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Government Agencies Established In 2005
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also include monarchies as a standalone entity or as a hybrid system of the main three. Historically prev ...
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2005 Establishments In The Netherlands
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ...
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Future Of The Royal Netherlands Navy
In April 2018, the Dutch Government approved a multi-year investment program for the Royal Netherlands Navy and allocated funds for the 2018–2030 period. The Materiel and IT Command, Materiel and IT Command (COMMIT) is in charge of the procurement of these new ships. Ships under construction The following is a list of vessels currently under construction for the Royal Netherlands Navy: Surface combatants ''De Zeven Provinciën''-class frigate Modernization All four will be modernised. Upgrades include acquisition Tomahawk (missile family), Tomahawk cruise missiles, a new OtoMelara 127/64 LW canon, ESSM-2, new SMART-L, SMART-L MM/N, replacing the aging Goalkeeper CIWS with RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile. Replacement In 2020 it was announced that these intensively used ships will not be replaced as planned around 2025. The Royal Netherlands Navy and the German Navy will cooperate towards a joint platform design to replace both the ''De Zeven Provinciën''-class frigate a ...
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Walrus-class Replacement Program
The ''Orka''-class submarine is a future submarine class currently planned for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). The submarines will replace the aging . They will be the first submarines of the RNLN that are built at a foreign shipyard. As of 2024 they are planned to enter service in 2035. History Beginning of the replacement process In 2013 the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) started the preparation process for the replacement of the s. That same year the Dutch Minister of Defence had signed letters of intent with both Norway and Germany for the development of new submarines, while there had also been talks with Norway about a Future Submarine Co-Operation. Plans were announced by Dutch Minister of Defence, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, in November 2014 to replace the ''Walrus''-class submarines with four new submarines in 2025. Later that year it was announced that the Netherlands would continue cooperating with Norway on the procurement of new submarines, but cooperation with ...
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City-class Mine Countermeasures Vessel
The Netherlands and Belgium are doing a joint procurement for the replacements of the Tripartite-class minehunter, ''Tripartite''-class/''Alkmaar''-class minehunters. Each of the two countries is procuring six new mine countermeasure vessel, mine countermeasure (MCM) vessels, which makes for a total of 12 MCM ships. The new MCM ships, developed by Naval Group, will include a range of unmanned systems including unmanned surface, aerial and underwater vehicles alongside towed sonars and mine identification and neutralization remotely operated vehicles. Design and development In early 2018, the Belgian and Dutch Navies signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint construction and financing of the ships. A list of requirements was drawn up for the new vessels. Contenders in the race were: * The Franco-Belgium consortium made up of French shipbuilders STX France and Socarenam, and Thales Group, Thales together with Belgium's EDR are bidding for the 12 new MCM vessels. Their plan ...
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Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (Koninklijke Marine)
The Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (ASWF) is a project of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN, Dutch: Koninklijke Marine) and Belgian Navy to replace the existing Karel Doorman-class frigate, Multipurpose- or M-frigates. Context The current M-frigates, originally all built in the Netherlands but apart from two units sold to Belgium, Portugal, and Chile are reaching their planned retirement age around 2020. However, due to extensive budget cuts over the past decades and other large materiel programs such as the acquisition of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, F-35 for the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the Ministry of Defence (Netherlands), Dutch Ministry of Defense currently does not have enough funds available to start building the ships. Therefore, lifespan of the current vessels has been extended until 2025. Keeping the ships any longer will cause problems with NATO and related tasks because the ships weapons suite is outdated and not up to current standards. For example: th ...
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HNLMS Den Helder
HNLMS ''Den Helder'' is a new replenishment oiler of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Also known as the Combat Support Ship (CSS), ''Den Helder'' is planned to fill the gap of replenishment at sea that was left after was sold to Peru in 2014. The design is based on the HNLMS Karel Doorman (A833), ''Karel Doorman''. History The sale of in 2014 left a gap in the navy's ability to replenish its own ships and those of allies. The successor of , , was not capable enough as it was not built as a full-fledged replenishment oiler. In 2017 a study started to look at the possibility of a new tanker to fulfill this task. In 2019 the so called D-letter, the final process before the contract can be signed, was sent to the House of Representatives (Netherlands), Tweede Kamer for approval. With the contract signing following two months later on the bridge of HNLMS ''Karel Doorman''. During Prinsjesdag in 2022 it was announced that the ''Den Helder'' would be equipped with a close-in weapon system ...
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General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, one component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS)) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF). The MQ-9 and other UAVs are referred to as Remotely Piloted Vehicles/Aircraft (RPV/RPA) by the USAF to indicate ground control by humans. The MQ-9 is a larger, heavier, more capable aircraft than the earlier General Atomics MQ-1 Predator and can be controlled by the same ground systems. The Reaper has a 950- shaft-horsepower (712 kW) turboprop engine (compared to the Predator's piston engine). The greater power allows the Reaper to carry 15 times more ordnance payload and cruise at about three times the speed of the MQ-1. The aircraft is monitored and controlled, including weapons employment, by aircrew in the Ground Control Station (GCS). The MQ-9 ...
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Procurement
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II procurement is the planned Military acquisition, selection and purchase of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter program, Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) by various countries. The F-35 Lightning II was conceived from the start of the project as having participation from many countries, most of which would both contribute to the manufacture of the aircraft and procure it for their own armed forces. While the United States is the primary customer and financial backer, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Turkey, Australia, Norway and Denmark agreed to contribute United States dollar, US$4.375 billion toward the development costs of the program."F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( ...
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