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News has demonstrated significant benefits at

Bender Shipbuilding and Repair.

Project: Harvest: Finishing the

Ship Product Models

Participants: STEP Tools, Electric

Boat, and Product Data Services.

Funding: $318K NSRP ASE, $376 industry cost share.

Description: The Harvest project seeks to complete the international stan- dardization of the shipbuilding STEP

Application Protocols: AP-218 (Ship

Structures), AP-216 (Ship Molded

Forms), and AP-215 (Ship Arrange- ments). This entails the working groups and the editing of the standards docu- ments. Completion of the STEP Ship- building Application Protocols will allow the U.S. shipbuilding industry (and the Navy) to "harvest" the invest- ment it has made in the development of product models for ships. In the final rounds of approval, the primary goal is to ensure the viability and completeness of the standard. This includes validation of information requirements, implemen- tation considerations and harmonization with other STEP and related standards.

These models will give the shipbuilding industries new options for collabora- tion, for transferring data between dif- ferent systems and different versions of the same system, and for managing data across the product life cycle.

Project: Enhancement of Evolu- tion of STEP

Participants: Kvaerner Philadelphia

Shipyard and Sener

Funding: $390K NSRP ASE, $398K industry cost share.

Description: The objective of this proposal is to broaden industry partici- pation in the ongoing Evolution of

STEP (ESTEP) task of the ISE project.

Specifically, this project would provide commercial translators for another CAD vendor (Sener and their FORAN prod- uct) for the three primary shipbuilding application protocols (structures, pip- ing, and hull forms). FORAN is used by

Atlantic Marine Holding Co., Friede

Goldman Halter, and Kvaerner

Philadelphia at the current time. The problem being addressed by ESTEP is the capability to transfer data from one ship product model to another (CAD-to-

CAD Interoperability). ESTEP will help enable shipyards with different ship design programs to exchange infor- mation easily and quickly.

BLA Helps State of Delaware

Acquire Research Vessel

The State of Delaware awarded Band,

Lavis and Associates (BLA) a contract to support the acquisition of a research vessel for its Department of Natural

Resources and Environmental Control,

Division of Fish and Wildlife. BLA evaluated numerous vessel options and configurations, developed concept designs, evaluated the effects of differ- ent requirements on cost and perfor- mance, and prepared design and build specifications for the water craft. BLA then worked with the state to review and evaluate proposals and assisted in the final selection of the builder, Derecktor

Shipyards of Mamaroneck, New York.

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