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Port Everglades Firm

Changes Its Name

To Tracor Marine

John C. Ploegert, president and board chairman of TRACOR/MAS,

Port Everglades, Fla.-based oceano- graphic research and ship repair fa- cility, has announced the firm is being renamed Tracor Marine, "to describe more accurately current and future activity. "The board of directors has estab- lished goals for significant growth in a variety of marine-oriented activi- ties. A portion of this will encompass underwater acoustics for which we are perhaps best known. However, it is felt the Tracor Marine name will help the industry more readily asso- ciate us with our expanded capabili- ties," Mr. Ploegert said.

In 1960, the firm was formed to provide vessel and engineering serv- ices to the emerging oceanographic research industry. Underwater sound —then the researcher's basic tool— suggested the original Marine Acous- tical Services name.

Acquired by TRACOR, Inc., Aus- tin, Texas in 1968, the Florida opera- tion was, and is still, widely known as "MAS." Under the MAS banner, the firm worked almost exclusively on projects for the U.S. Navy. In 1971, the firm's scope of operations had extended far beyond activities in underwater acoustics when it estab- lished shipyard operations at Port

The Shipyard Division, managed by A.A. (Skip) Walker, provides seven-day round-the-clock ship repair and overhaul services. Plans are completed for a 110 by 600-foot float- ing drydock, and a recently acquired 1,000-ton floating drydock already augments the firm's Syncrolift marine elevator drydock, the largest of its kind in the United States.

The parent company, TRACOR,

Inc., is involved in sponsored research and development projects in a wide range of scientific disciplines.

TRACOR, Inc., headquartered in

Austin, Texas, is primarily a manu- facturer of electronic and electro- mechanical systems, scientific instru- ments and components. With princi- pal operations in 11 states and six foreign locations, TRACOR also conducts sponsored research and de- velopment projects in fields of scien- tific endeavors in which solutions to environmental problems are of sig- nificant importance.

Albina Engine Names

Fitzwater Asst. Mgr.

Ship Repair Division

Bruce D. Hobbs, president, and

John L. Sutherland, vice president,

Ship Repair Division of Albina

Engine & Machine Works, have announced the appointment of D.

Scott Fitzwater as assistant man- ager, Ship Repair Division.

Albina Engine & Machine Works, actively engaged in ship repair at their facility on 'Swan Island, Port- land, Ore., is a wholly owned com- pany of the Dillingham Corpora- tion of Hawaii.

Mr. Fitzwater joined Albina's

Ship Repair Division on July 1, 1972. He is a 1969 graduate of the

United 'Staites Merchant 'Marine

Academy, and obtained his M.S. degree in industrial engineering from 'Oregon State University in 1972.

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Everglades and restructured into two divisions.

The Ocean Technology Division, headed by Charles W. Gattas, has enabled the firm to continue to ad- dress itself to growing demands for research vessel services, ocean engi- neering, marine research and support worldwide. Today, it provides sur- vey and core drilling services, con- ducts pollution studies, submarine cable installation and repair, and sponsored research and engineering programs for a variety of commercial clients, in addition to the U.S. Navy.

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