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Gulf Fleet Marine Names

Banos To Sales Post

With International Staff

George D. Banos

Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation,

New Orleans, La., has named

George D. Banos a sales repre- sentative in its international mar- keting staff. He will be based in

Gulf Fleet's corporate headquar- ters in New Orleans. For the past six years Mr. Banos has been ac- tively involved in international marketing in the oil and gas in- dustry.

Gulf Fleet Marine, a subsidiary of Houston Natural Gas Corpo- ration, provides a wide range of marine transportation services to the offshore petroleum and con- struction industry.

Seacoast Offers Free 170-Page Electrical

Equipment Catalog

Seacoast Electric Supply Cor- poration, Passaic, N.J., recently released a new 170-page illus- trated catalog of Navy and com- mercial cable and accessories for 1983.

The newly expanded catalog in- cludes a total marine electrical equipment section with all Navy symbols. In addition, there is a completely updated and revised

IEEE-45/1982 section. The cata- log includes Seacoast's expanded line of marine electrical fit- tings, Navy symbols, Navy cir- cuit breakers, plus military and commercial grade marine equip- ment. For a free copy,

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ASNE Southern New

England Discusses

Sub Combat Systems

Earle Messere, the technical director of the Naval Underwater

Systems Center, was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the Southern New England Sec- tion, American Society of Naval

Engineers. Mr. Messere likened the Underwater Systems Center to a $500-million industrial re- search and development center, providing a full spectrum of services from warfare studies, which predict future needs, to system development and intro- duction into fleet units of those

January 15, 1983 systems following up with solu- tions to current problems within a short time-frame.

Mr. Messere described combat systems on submarines, for which the center is responsible, begin- ning with a past history of the development of combat systems.

He pointed out the importance of the acquisition process, due to the 20 or more years required to introduce new systems to the fleet. This time-frame requires an excellent analysis of the mis- sion requirements for the future, as well as a firm understanding of technological trends and their effect on long-range problem sit- uations.

In a discussion of current sys- tems, Mr. Messere highlighted the differences between the So- viet and U.S. naval forces. These differences require each unit to be as capable as possible, he noted, a requirement which ne- cessitates large data management systems with many independent processing units to speed compu- tations with better display man- agement. Feeding these informa- tion management systems will be better broad band arrays and other sensors. Such systems will cause changes, and Mr. Messere foresees the future submarine as an underwater cruiser with much longer-range weapons and re- mote targeting capabilities.

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