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Navy Adds $4.2 Million

To Tracor Contract

The Naval Sea Systems Com- mand, Department of the Navy,

Washington, D.C., has increased an existing Tracor, Inc. contract by $4.2 million to continue its support program of coordinating design, production, installation, and operational phases of sonar, command and control, and fire con- trol systems; and acoustic trans- ducers and test instrumentation for the Navy's nuclear subma- rines, Trident submarines, and surface ships.

William C. Moyer, Ph.D., vice president for Tracor Applied Sci- ences, explains that approxi- mately 150 Tracor sonar scien- tists, engineers, and managers located in Maryland, Virginia,

Connecticut, and Texas are in- volved in the program, providing engineering analysis and tech- nical engineering in support of these systems. The contract con- solidates work in 23 different technical programs, all adminis- tered by the Naval Sea Systems

Command.

As each program proceeds,

Tracor scientists assist in assur- ing the most advanced techniques are utilized, providing the Navy with design and production spec- ifications, as well as assistance in program management and produc- tion and installation planning.

Headquarters for the contract work is Tracor's facility in Rock- ville, Md., under the general man- agement of William F. Thompson, division vice president and man- ager of the Systems Technology

Division. Reporting to Mr. Thomp- son on the program is Robert G.

Jackson, director, Submarine Sys- tems Department.

Primary responsibility for the management of this contract is with Edgar V. Davis, Navy sup- port program manager, who re- ports to Mr. Jackson. Assisting

Mr. Davis and Mr. Jackson with a major portion of the work on this contract is M.P. Hall, man- ager of Tracor's Groton, Conn., facility, and J.D. Morell, man- ager of ASW programs.

Tracor, Inc., headquartered in

Austin, Texas, is an international technological products and serv- ices company with operations in 11 states, two United States ter- ritories, and five foreign countries.

C.F. Bean Corp. Names

Charles R. Barron VP

Charles R. Barron

The board of directors, C.F.

Bean Corporation, One Shell

Square, New Orleans, La. 70139, has named Charles R. (Yogi) Bar- ron, vice president, Bean Inter- national Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of C.F. Bean

Corporation.

Mr. Barron will be responsible for Bean's international dredging operations, which include projects in Puerto Rico and Saudi Arabia.

A graduate of Texas A&M's

School of Civil Engineering, Mr.

Barron joined Bean in 1972 as project manager.

He was promoted to senior project manager in 1974 and moved to Bean International in 1975, taking charge of the con- struction of a new port at Jubail,

Saudi Arabia.

Prior to joining Bean, Mr. Bar- ron was with the U.S. Corps of

Engineers in Galveston and Cor- pus Christi, where he was area engineer responsible for marine construction, navigation and flood control.

Bean International is responsi- ble for marine construction out- side the continental United States.

Its experience includes work in

Nigeria, Barbados, Puerto Rico,

Trinidad, and Saudi Arabia.

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