
Adaptive Marine Solutions
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Adaptive Marine Solutions is a Canadian naval-architecture and marine-engineering practice that turns vessel requirements and survey information into design models, production drawings and refit packages. The company says Bruce Cutler and Toby Butler founded it in 2018. Its services span new construction and existing vessels, with AVEVA and ShipConstructor models covering structure, piping, equipment, HVAC and electrical systems. Deliverables are organized around how a shipyard intends to build or modify the vessel. AMS describes its first project as support to Alion Canada/SERCO Canada on the Royal Canadian Navy Joint Support Ship's 3D production model. Its subsequent company-reported work includes Davie refit and survey packages, VARD survey support and commercial barge-design assignments. These are engineering and production-information roles, rather than claims that AMS built the vessels or supplied a proprietary autonomous system. In 2026, AMS joined Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and SALT Ship Design in Kongsberg Vanguard LP's Canadian Coast Guard mid-shore multi-mission vessel design project. SALT provides the conceptual solution, while AMS assists detailed development into a comprehensive contract-design package for shipyard quotations. The government scope is up to six vessels; construction and the eventual delivery programme remain separate from the joint venture's design award.
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