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GE Wins $11-Million

Spanish Ship Control

System Contract

The General Electric Company,

Simulation and Control Systems

Department, Daytona Beach, Fla., has been awarded an $ll-million contract to furnish central con- trol systems for four new Spanish

Navy ships. The equipment pro- vided under the contract will con- trol the shipboard propulsion, electrical, auxiliary and damage control systems.

The contract was awarded by

Empresa Nacional Bazan De Con- strucciones Navales Militaries of

El Ferrol, Spain. In a major ef- fort to update its Naval forces, the Spanish Government has com- missioned the El Ferrol Shipyard to build three guided missile frig- ates (FFG) and one aircraft car- rier.

The FFGs are similar to U.S.

Navy FFGs which use General

Electric Control Systems. The aircraft carrier, which is designed for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, is the first ship of its type to use the

GE Control Systems.

Commenting on the award, Dr.

Charles E. Cheeseman, manager of General Electric's Digital Con- trol Systems Business in Daytona

Beach, said: "This award is the result of many months of work by our GE team with the Spanish

Government and representatives of the El Ferrol Shipyard. Our experience and good program per- formance with similar systems for the U.S. Navy put us in a good position to win this contract.

We will be working closely with the shipyard and will have peo- ple on site in Spain as delivery of the hardware starts in 1982."

The central control systems will be produced at the Simulation and

Control Systems Department in

Daytona Beach. The department broke ground on January 18, 1980, for a new 65,000-square-foot; pro- duction facility. Current employ- ment is now about 1,300. This contract has been anticipated by the department's current expan- sion plans and will not require additional employees to complete.

R.P. Magrath Joins

Adams & Porter

As Vice President

Richard P. Magrath

Richard P. Magrath has joined

Adams & Porter Incorporated, the international insurance brokerage company with headquarters in

New York, as a vice president in the Property and Casualty De- partment. He formerly was presi- dent and chief executive officer of Cornwall & Stevens Company,

Inc.

New Norfolk Office

Opened By American

Marine Services

American Marine Services, Inc. has announced the opening of a new office in Norfolk, Va., Monti- cello Arcade, 208 East Plume

Street, Suite 217. The office will be managed by James P. Mc-

Laughlin, who has been with the company's Philadelphia office since

January 1979. The announcement was made by Kjell G. Hansen, president.

American Marine also has of- fices in Jersey City, Brooklyn,

Camden, Baltimore, and Port

Newark. The firm provides ex- perts in practically every field, from cargo, hull and machinery, oil spills, general averages, LASH barges, container inspection and certification, and employs 26 sur- veyors. flapcut Radio Co., lid.

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