BCG Donates Simulation Software to Support US Naval Academy

Maritime training solutions provider Buffalo Computer Graphics Inc. (BCG) has donated its Enhanced Graphical User Interface (GUI2) simulation software to the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation in Annapolis, Md. for distribution to the academy’s seamanship and navigation department.

BCG’s donation included four software licenses to support past donations from Northrup Grumman Corporation of the Navy’s Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) to train midshipmen on the charting system they will encounter once they graduate and move out to the fleet.

Prior to BCG’s donation, the ECDIS classrooms were used as a static training tool and the operational use was limited. With the addition of the BCG GUI2 simulation software, which stimulates the ECDIS with sensor and AIS data, the navigation classrooms now operate dynamically, providing a more realistic learning environment, BCG explained. The midshipmen now have a training tool which better represents the actual operation of the shipboard ECDIS.