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SPD Battery Monitoring

System Praised

By Canadian DOD

The Canadian Department of De- fense recently installed an SPD com- puterized, all-cell battery monitoring system aboard one of the Canadian

Navy's diesel-powered submarines. 36

The system, which was placed onboard the HMCS Onandaga, re- cently completed final testing after being retrofitted at the HMCS dock yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Canadian Department of Defense officials Robert Laidley and Ralph

Storey noted that the system will provide a model for all future sub- marine battery monitoring systems, including nuclear submarines.

Some of the primary aspects of the system are the digital cell probes with additional hardware and asso- ciated software packages which reportedly provide new standards in data acquisition, prediction, reli- ability and ease of operation.

Canadian officials have made plans to install more of these systems on other submarines, and SPD plans to market the systems worldwide.

SPD Technologies is one of the nation's largest designers and manu- facturers of circuit breakers and switchgear for the U.S. Navy, and a leader in the development of advanced shipboard monitoring systems.

Intervention/ROV '92

Set For June 10-12

In San Diego, Calif.

The 10th annual Subsea Inter- vention Conference & Exposition, featuring ROV '92, has been sched- uled to be held at the San Diego

Convention Center in San Diego,

Calif., June 10-12, 1992.

Sponsored by the ROV Commit- tee and the San Diego Section of the

Marine Technology Society, Inter- vention/ROV '92 will feature nine educational tutorials, beginning on

June 9.

Robert L. Wernli, chairman of the previous nine ROV conferences & exhibitions, will chair Interven- tion/ROV '92.

Over 60 technical papers will be presented during the three-day con- ference, representing companies and organizations in the U.S. and 12 foreign countries. Hardbound cop- ies of the Proceedings, containing the technical papers, will be pro- vided to registrants and will be avail- able for purchase during the meet- ings.

Over 130 companies and organi- zations are expected to occupy 150+ exhibit spaces in the modern and spacious Convention Center, where they will display the latest subsea intervention technology, products and services.

The Marine Technology Society (MTS) is a nonprofit, professional organization working on every as- pect of the application of science and technology to the exploration and use of the world's oceans.

For further information on Inter- vention/ROV '92, contact the ROV

Committee of the Marine Technology

Society, P.O. Box 261149, San Diego,

Calif. 92196, fax (619)660-0408.

Bids Solicited

For Repairs

To Three Carriers

The Supervisor of Shipbuilding,

Conversion and Repair, San Diego,

Calif., recently issued a solicitation for the repair of three aircraft car- rier—the USS ranger (CV-61), USS

Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and USS Con- stellation (CV-64). Bids for the so- licitation, N62791-92-R-0100, are due June 1, 1992.

For further details, contact:

Patricia A. Pauley, contract spe- cialist at (619) 556-2309.

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