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SNAME Issues Call For Papers

For 1975 Annual Meeting in N.Y.

The Society of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers has issued a call for papers for its 1975 Annual Meeting to be held in

New York City on November 13-15, 1975.

Papers on the following subjects are par- ticularly desired; however, submittal of ab- stracts on other topics of interest to the marine industry is also encouraged.

Ro/Ro ships—state of the art, operational experience, design.

New barge-carrying ships—operational ex- perience, design.

LNG ships—operational experience.

Assessment of subsidy under the Mer- chant Marine Act of 1970

Tanker explosions—history and develop- ments.

Industrial gas turbines for marine pro- pulsion

High-performance vessels and related sub- jects—hydrofoils, surface effect ships, struc- tures and materials, propellers, submersibles, planing craft, new displacement types.

Offshore terminals

Tanker structural problems

Maintainability/reliability

Offshore drill rigs

Pollution abatement

Analysis and trends in naval ship design

Mooring of large ships

High-powered commercial nuclear ships

Deep ocean resources—exploitation.

Supersize ships

Economic aspects of design, construction, operation

Welding technology

Foundation stiffness

Fifteen copies of a 400-500 word abstract should be sent in by October 31, 1974. The author's name, title, organization, and ad- dress should be included on the abstract.

A tentative selection of papers will be made in December 1974. Prospective authors will be requested to submit a finished manu- script by April 15, 1975. Final acceptance of the paper is dependent upon favorable re- view by the Committee on Papers. It is the author's responsibility to obtain appropriate clearance from Government or industry, as required.

The abstract deadline is October 31, 1974.

Fifteen copies should be sent to Robert G.

Mende, Secretary, The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, 74 Trinity

Place, New York, N.Y. 10006.

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MarAd Satellite Contract To

Marine Management Systems

The potentials of satellite communications between ocean-traveling cargo vessels and land-based offices for management informa- tion and control purposes will be explored over the next two years under a contract just awarded by the U.S. Government to

Marine Management Systems, Inc. (MMS).

The announcement was made by Eugene

D. Story, company president, who said that the contract was signed with the U.S. Mari- time Administration. MMS, headquartered in Stamford, Conn., designs and implements computer-based management systems for the international marine transportation industry.

In recent years, Mr. Story said, Mar Ad's

Office of Commercial Development has been sponsoring advanced technological programs in satellite communications as part of an overall effort to improve the competitive position of American-flag shipping compan- ies. A satellite communication facility, estab- lished at the National Maritime Research

Center, Kings Point, N.Y., is used for con- ducting tests to improve the management tools available to operators of the U.S. mer- chant fleet.

He said that the contract calls for develop- ment of fleet management techniques, in cooperation with participating shipping com- panies, and the operation of a Maritime

Coordination Center at Kings Point.

Under the terms of the contract, he ex- plained, MMS will conduct tests initially involving satellite terminals aboard two ves- sels on two North Atlantic routes using the

NASA ATS-6 and ATS-5 satellites. Later, the tests will be extended to include 10 or more U.S. ships in the Atlantic and Pacific

Oceans using the MARISAT commercial sys- tem being developed by ComSat General,

RCA Globcom, ITT, and Western Union

International.

MMS-developed computer/communication systems are presently in operation interna- tionally. They incorporate—on an interactive basis—minicomputers, an international net- work time-sharing system, and commercial communication satellites. " OSGOOD HAS A /iJ