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Harry S. Ford Promoted

To Vice President

At Autronica

Autronica Marine U.S.A.,

Northvale, N.J., has announced the promotion of Harry S. Ford to vice president and director of technical services.

Autronica Marine U.S.A. repre- sents the Norwegian Companies of

Autronica A/S and Moland Auto- mation A/S, covering a board range of marine electronic monitoring and alarm systems.

Mr. Ford's extensive back- ground in the electronic and ma- rine field includes consulting, elec- tronic systems design, marketing, and field service engineering. He has been involved with shipboard computerized controls, diesel en- gine condition monitoring sys- tems, engine controls, automation equipment, and monitoring systems.

Mr. Ford obtained his B.S. de- gree in electrical engineering and his M.B.A. in management (for ex- ecutives) from Fairleigh Dickinson

University, Rutherford, N.J. His continuing education includes a micro-computer systems course at

Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, Dale Carnegie Leadership

Harry S. Ford

Course, and ship navigation, con- trol, and power systems courses at

A.E.G. Telefunken and C. Plath—

Hamburg, Germany; Brissonneau and Lotz Marine—Nantes, France;

Autronica Marine—Trondheim,

Norway; WABCO Fluid Power-

Lexington, Ky.; and Navidyne

Corp.—Newport News, Va.

Avondale Awarded $58.6

Million Increase For

LSD Material Procurement

Avondale Shipyards Incorpo- rated, New Orleans, has been awarded a $58,600,000 face value increase to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract for procurement of long lead time ma- terial for the dock landing ship

LSD-45 and LSD-46. The Naval

Sea Systems Command, Washing- ton, D.C., is the contracting activity.

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