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Nav-Com Names Franza

Director Of Marketing

Gary J. Franza

Gerald A. Gutman, president of Nav-Com Incorporated has an- nounced the appointment of Gary

J. Franza to the position of direc- tor of marketing.

This announcement follows the recent acquisition of Nav-Com by

Magnavox Government & Indus- trial Electronics Company which is designed to broaden the com- pany's penetration into new and existing marine markets. Nav-Com is engaged in the sales and service communication and navigation electronics as well as sophisticated systems integration engineering and Shipboard Computer Systems.

Mr. Franza was previously na- tional marketing manager for Sci- entific-Atlanta, manufacturers of

Inmarsat satellite communication ship earth stations. Prior to Sci- entific-Atlanta he was maritime product manager for Comsat Gen- eral Telesystems. As a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Acad- emy, he will bring additional mar- itime expertise to Nav-Com's staff of professionals.

Vitro Industries Gets $3.24-Million Navy Contract

Vitro Industries Incorporated,

Vitro Laboratories Division, Silver

Spring, Md. has been awarded a $3,240,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee con- tract for materials and services to integrate the Tomahawk sea- launched cruise missile for launch control groups MK1, Mod 2, into

USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS

Iowa (BB-61). The Joint Cruise

Missiles Project Office, Washing- ton, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Wartsila Arctic Opens

Office In Vancouver

Wartsila, Helsinki, Finland, well established as a designer and builder of icebreakers and ice- breaking merchant vessels, has opened an engineering firm in

Vancouver, B.C. The new com- pany Wartsila Arctic Inc. provides engineering services in the field of

Arctic Marine Technology.

Wartsila has been actively in- volved in the research, develop- ment, design and construction of icebreaking ships since the early fifties. The company has built ap- proximately 70 icebreakers and icebreaking merchant vessels. In 1970 Wartsila opened an icebreak- ing model basin, reported to be the first of its kind in a Western country.

The company will have an ex- perienced management team at the Wartsila Shipyards in Finland responsible for transferring tech- nology to the new company.

Eero Makinen, former Assis- tant Managing Director of the

Wartsila Helsinki Shipyard has been appointed president of Wart- sila Arctic Inc., and Stefan Gor- din former manager of Arctic Con- sulting of the same yard, has been appointed vice president. $26.6-Million Contract

Increase Awarded To

G.D. Electric Boat Div.

General Dynamics, Electric Boat

Division, Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $26,693,405 face-value- increase to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for ex- ercise of an option for additional design agent services for Ohio-class submarines. The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-80-C-2075). * 'V: "5}

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