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Chart System to display the radar image on top of the chart. The ACR tracking system has a capacity of up to 3,000 tar- gets (Pentium IV), which are tracked automatically and displayed on request.

RadarTrack, with multi-ARPA licenses, may be installed on several computers operating on a local area network.

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Kongsberg's New Marine

Information Station

Kongsberg Maritime has developed a

PC-based system designed to integrate several key shipboard functionalities, providing owners with a tool to help reduce costs. The Marine Info Station is primarily designed as a means to make better use of Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) and Simplified-Voyage Data

Recorder (S-VDR) and to save time and money through the DNV-approved

Remote Annual Survey.

VDR and S-VDR systems require a yearly survey in order to continue oper- ating as required by international stan- dards. This requires an authorized sur- veyor to visit the vessel and physically test the system onboard, which is an expensive and ongoing cost. The Marine

Info Station is designed to help reduce costs by providing DNV approved

Remote Annual Survey of VDR/S-VDR, using functions of the Kongsberg

Maritime FleetMaster Electronic Log

Book. The ship's personnel will com- plete and sign an inspection procedure (annual survey report) and extract recorded data from the VDR/S-VDR.

The extracted data is copied to a DVD via the Marine Info Station and sent to

Kongsberg Maritime by mail or courier service. The report and the extracted data are examined and a new Certificate of Compliance for VDR/S-VDR is issued by Kongsberg. This negates the need for a surveyor to visit the ship and can save owners the costs that this entails. Kongsberg claims that, typically, a 50-vessel fleet can save the owner approximately $960,000 over a five year period, by using the VDR/SVDR

Remote Annual Survey function of the

Marine Info Station. "Users of Remote Annual Survey on the Marine Info Station will recoup the initial cost of the system very quickly, and will not expect any further key

VDR/S-VDR survey costs for the life of the system," said Bjarne Bjorkan,

Product Manager, Kongsberg Maritime. "Costs are further reduced and opera- tions improved with functionality for

Electronic Log Books, a separate elec- tronic chart station and replay of valu- able VDR data for training and evalua- tion purposes."

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United States Marine Inc.

Wins Navy Contract

United States Marine, Inc., Gulfport,

Miss., is being awarded an $8,836,911 firm-fixed-price, requirements contract for the acquisition of services and mate- rial for the Naval Special Warfare, 11- meter rigid, inflatable boat service life extension program to restore 32 boats to like new condition. Work will be per- formed in Gulfport, Miss., and is expect- ed to be completed by February 2011.

Contract funds in the amount of $500,000 will expire by the end of the current fiscal.

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