DPCS

Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems became part of L-3 Communications as a result of the acquisition of certain companies from Nautronix PLC in May 2006. Based in the outskirts of San Diego, California and Houston Texas, the company serves customers throughout the world with vessel control and automation systems. The products comprise a range of simple joysticks for coordinated thruster control to highly sophisticated redundant Dynamic Positioning (DP) systems as well as a range of Vessel Management Systems (VMS), which can be used independently or as part of a fully integrated bridge package. Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems products are suitable for many marine platforms — from luxury yachts to offshore drilling platforms and a wide variety of specialized naval applications. Dynamic Positioning and Control Systems has been a major provider of such systems for over twenty years and has hundreds of systems operating in all regions. Not only is support a key aspect of our business, but so is formal, accredited, operator training conducted from our formal training school.

Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems
12131 Community Road
Poway, CA 92064
Phone: (858) 679-5500
Fax: (858) 679-5501
Website: L-3com.com/DPCS

Tony Gardiner
Vice President and General Manager

Tony Gardiner is the Vice President and General Manager of Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems, which was acquired by L-3 in May 2006 from Nautronix PLC. Mr. Gardiner began his career in the aviation industry as a calibration engineer in 1964 with the Bell and Howell Corporation, where he held several positions in that company moving into export selling. As a Regional Manager of Government Sales, he gained extensive sales and marketing experience throughout the world. In 1984, he moved into the marine industry to become president of several organizations in Texas and California. Mr. Gardiner joined Nautronix, now Dynamic Positioning & Control Systems, in 2000 and has led the company to become a major contender in the industry. Mr. Gardiner studied Pure and Applied Physics at Farnborough in England.