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Litton AMTD Awards $8-Million Contract To

Technical Associates

A contract in excess of $8 million has been awarded to Technical As- sociates of New Orleans, Inc., by the Advanced Marine Technology

Division of Litton Systems, Inc.,

El Segundo, Calif. The contract encompasses the design, develop- ment and fabrication of a complete automation system, including the ship's control console, forward and aft machinery - space - centralized control consoles and the data cen- ter for nine new U.S. Navy am- phibious assault vessels. The elec- tronic control systems will include the throttle control system, boiler control system, turbine bearing temperature detecting system and many other ship's systems.

The ships will be built at Lit- ton's Ingalls Shipbuilding Division,

Pascagoula, Miss. Technical As- sociates' president Melvin Gold- stein said, "The Litton contract is the largest single contract award- ed to Technical Associates, and with an average of 20 high quality merchant ships completed each year by U.S. shipyards, this places

Technical Associates among the top five companies as a supplier for control systems and consoles for the marine industry."

Marine systems account for over 75 percent of the company's current

Kockum's Combustion Control MK3 Dorft touch it]

It is pre-programmed to regulate combustion so that steam pressure delivered to the turbines will be constantly maintained as close as possible to the ideal.

Electronics in the form of integrated circuits have here replaced human brain and hand.

The result is greater reliability and economy: which were two of the aims we set ourselves when we started design work on the Combustion Control MK3.

As shipbuilders, we know the processes and problems from the inside. That is why Kockums now manufactures advanced electronic equipment. It also explains why the fully marinised Combustion Control

MK3 features sophisticated monitoring and is flexible, compact, easy to install and very simple to adjust.

The outfit is equally suitable for ships under construction as for ships already in operation.

Moreover, the name Kockums is a guarantee of operational satisfaction.

For further information please write to

KOCKUMS

MEKANISKA VERKSTADS AB MAfMO SWEDEN

Representatives in USA:

KOCKUMS SHIPYARD INC. 250 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017

MESSRS. ROHRER MARINE BURNER

P O. Box 860, Los Altos, Calif. 94022 business. Technical Associates is also under contract with Avondale

Shipyards, Inc. for centralized con- trol consoles on 11 LASH ships and the main propulsion system control consoles for three U.S.

Coast Guard High-Endurance Cut- ters. Technical Associates also de- signed and fabricated the first

American-built, centralized cargo- handling consoles for the ESSO

San Francisco, ESSO Philadelphia and ESSO Baton Rouge, the larg- est ships built by Avondale Ship- yards, Inc. to date.

Besides ship automation, Techni- cal Associates is also involved with the design and fabrication of elec- tronics equipment for the C-5A cargo aircraft under development by Lockheed-Georgia Company for the Department of Defense, indus- trial and offshore automation, data acquisition and supervisory control systems, and computer peripherals.

Pearlson Engineering

Names James Long

Manager Of Sales

James M. Long

James M. Long has been ap- pointed manager of sales at Pearl- son Engineering Company, and has assumed responsibilities for sales of all Syncrolift dry docks and related equipment to the marine field. Ac- cording to Raymond Pearlson, president and founder, Mr. Long's duties will include overall direction of activities of a network of sales representatives in 19 countries.

Mr. Long joined Pearlson Engi- neering Company in July 1969 as a sales engineer. Previously, he was a member of the board of directors at Crandall Dry Dock Engineers,

Inc., Cambridge, Mass. For more than 15 years, he supervised con- struction of new dry dock installa- tions and was engineer in charge of major reconstruction projects from

Newfoundland to the West Indies.

In his present capacity, he is ex- pected to travel more extensively to shipyards abroad assisting in initial planning of modern dry dock facilities.

Mr. Long was born in Norwood,

Mass., served in the United States

Navy for five years as a diver and instructor of diving and sub- marine escape apparatus. He at- tended Franklin Technical Insti- tute, Northeastern University, and currently resides in Miami, Fla.

Pearlson Engineering Company is the exclusive worldwide pro- ducer and distributor of Syncrolift dry-docking and transfer systems.

The company's main offices are in

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