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LCS Program Team

Announced

Trumpeting the strength of combin- ing leaders in systems engineering, mid-market shipbuilding and naval architecture, officials from Lockheed

Martin, Gibbs & Cox, Bollinger

Shipyards and Marinette Marine announced a teaming effort to capture the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship pro- gram. With Lockheed Martin desig- nated as the prime contractor, Gibbs & Cox, Bollinger Shipyards and

Marinette Marine will share signifi- cant roles as principal team members.

As a leading naval architectural and marine engineering firm, and world- renowned designer of surface com- batants for the U.S. and international navies, Gibbs & Cox will be the team's platform design authority, naval architect and platform systems integrator. As mid-market ship- builders, Bollinger Shipyards' and

Marinette Marine's construction work serves smaller classes of ships and vessels, similar to the Navy's size requirements for LCS. In addition, both ship builders have significant experience serving commercial mar- kets, where price, design, quality and on- time delivery are the primary measures for winning new customers.

Marinette Marine, with its shipyard facilities in Marinette, Wise., is a leading shipbuilder serving the gov- ernment, military and commercial customers throughout the maritime industry. Its shipbuilding portfolio includes U.S. Coast Guard icebreak- ers and buoy tenders, U.S. Navy mine countermeasure vessels and ocean tugs, as well as ferries, dredges and tugs. Responsibilities for the two shipyards include production and cost engineering, production design and platform production.

In addition to serving as the overall prime, Lockheed Martin will be the systems and modularity architect, hullform developer and lead the over- all program management and cost analysis work. For further informa- tion on the companies listed, please circle the corresponding numbers on the Reader Service Card

Gibbs & Cox 20

Lockheed Martin 1

Marinette Marine 22

American Superconductor $70M Navy Contract

American Superconductor has been selected by the U.S. Navy's Office of

Naval Research (ONR) as prime con- tractor to lead a team in designing and building a prototype 36.5 MW high temperature superconductor (HTS) propulsion motor for electric warships.

AMSC has teamed with Northrop

Grumman.

The full value of the contract will be approximately $70 million. As prime contractor, AMSC will lead the design and manufacture of a prototype HTS electric ship propulsion motor system

Circle 302 on Reader Service Card that includes a 36.5-MW/120-rpm HTS motor and the required power electron- ics, circuit breakers and switchgear. The motor is expected to be less than half the size and approximately one-third the weight of a conventional copper-based motor.

Circle 15 on Reader Service Card i • — •?vJ it m simply the less expensive propulsion system

Passenger ships, ferries and cruise liners are connecting ports, coasts and continents by timetables which are accurate right down to the tast minute.

Worldwide Service

Under such circumstances the reliability of the propulsion plant takes on particular importance.

MAN B&W four-stroke Diesel engines have been proving their reliability either as straightforward

Diesei propulsion or Diesel-elec- tric propulsion plant on board famous cruise liners and ferries.

MAN B&W Diesel AG, Stadtbachstr. 1, 86224 Augsburg, Germany, Phone +49-821 3220

MAN B&W Diesel Inc., 17 State Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, Tel. (212) 269-0980

MAN saw

MAN B&W's modern IS (/nvisible

Smoke) engines use fuel-water emulsification in order to operate with invisible smoke and clean exhaust at any load - with NOx emissions far below the IMO limit.

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