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French Named Chairman And CEO

At NASSCO—Vortmann Is President

Clarence L. French

C. Larry French has been ap- pointed chairman of the board and chief executive officer of National

Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego, a wholly owned sub- sidiary of Morrison-Knudsen Com- pany. In other promotions, Rich- ard H. Vortmann has been named president and chief operating offi- cer, the posts previously held by

Mr. French, and Alfred W. Lut- ter has been appointed senior vice president-marketing and business affairs.

Mr. French has served as NAS-

SCO's president and COO for the past six years. He joined the com- pany in 1967 and served as vice president of engineering from 1974 and executive vice president from 1976. He earned BS degrees in mechanical engineering and naval science at Tufts University. Before joining NASSCO, he served as a project manager with Bechtel Cor- poration and in various production management positions with Beth- lehem Steel and Kaiser Steel.

Mr. Vortmann has been execu- tive vice president for the past four years. He joined the company in 1976 as vice president-finance, and was elected to the board of di- rectors in 1978. Previously, he was employed by the Kaiser companies for seven years in various finan- cial management and corporate planning capacities. He earned BS and MBA degrees from the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley.

Mr." Lutter joined NASSCO" in 1979 as vice president-marketing.

He previously had been vice pres- ident and general manager of Kai- ser Glass Fibers, and had prior management positions with In- mont Corporation and Owens-

Corning Fiberglass Corporation.

He received a BS degree in electri- cal engineering from Northwest- ern University and completed a management program at the Har- vard School of Business.

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Mr. Vortmann will be responsible for the "internal" functions of the company—basically those opera- tions that occur in San Diego.

Mr. Lutter will have responsibili- ties that are "external" to the operation of the shipyard.

Raytheon Gets $13-Million

Navy Contract For SSN

Engineering Services

Raytheon Company, Ports- mouth, R.I., has been awarded a $13,385,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee

Navy contract for engineering services for SSN combat systems.

The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity.

DoD Implements Initiative

For Cost Effectiveness

Of Contract Requirements

The Department of Defense (DoD) is implementing a new ini- tiative aimed at developing more cost-effective contract require- ments for major system acquisi- tions. This initiative will address a number of problems inherent in present practices that can result in excessive contractual require- ments early in weapon system development.

This initiative was developed in conjunction with the military services under the DoD Acquisi- tion Improvement Program (Initi- ative No. 14), and will specify "re- sults required" rather than "how to" procedures in requests for pro- posals and contracts. Detailed specifications and standards will be used only for guidance during the early phases of development, and selectively included in con- tract requirements for full-scale development and production. The recommended actions also place limits on incorporating contract requirements through referencing in certain specifications and stand- ards. Cost/benefit analysis will be central to decisions on application of contract requirements.

With the implementation of the initiative, industry will be given a greater opportunity to recommend the most cost-effective application of detailed specifications, stand- ards, and other contract require- ments. Final decision-making au- thority, however, will be retained by the government program man- ager. Emphasis will be given to assuring development of a com- plete and definitive production de- sign data specification while pro- viding flexibility to use contractor ingenuity and experience to arrive at cost-effective designs.

As directed in a Deputy Secre- tary of Defense memorandum dated

January 11, 1984, each military department is required to identify four major system development programs for initial implementa- tion of these concepts. Within six months, the military departments will provide plans to expand appli- cation of these concepts to all new major system acquisitions.

Richard H. Vortmann Alfred W. Lutter Jr. 18 Circle 218 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News