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Weerts Named Senior

Program Manager For

American Systems

Carl M. Albero, president and chief executive officer of American

Systems Engineering Corporation (AmSEC), has announced the ap- pointment of Gary L. Weerts to the position of senior program man- ager, in recognition of his contribu- tions to the firm as a senior man- ager.

Gary L. Weerts

Mr. Weerts has been a program manager in AmSEC's Virginia

Beach, Va., office since April 1983.

He manages the firm's contracts with the U.S. Navy for support of weapons elevators, as well as sup- port for the Navy's Service Life

Extension Program (SLEP) for air- craft carriers.

AmSEC is an engineering services firm headquartered in Virginia

Beach, with other major offices in

Arlington, Va., Philadelphia, and

San Diego, and field representatives throughout the country supporting both commercial and military cus- tomers. Since its inception in 1981 with 13 employees, AmSEC has be- come a fast-growing corporation with sales approaching $10 million and a work force comprising more than 280 engineers, instructors, managers, and technicians.

ABS Developing New

Computer Programs

To Aid Ship Designers

The American Bureau of Ship- ping (ABS) has announced a new system of computer programs, called EAGLE, for use with the

Hewlett Packard 9000, Series 200 computer recently installed in the

ABS New York headquarters. A fea- ture of the EAGLE system will be a program based on the "ABS Rules for Building and Classing Steel Ves- sels," the standards established for the design, construction, and peri- odic survey of merchant vessels.

According to Dr. Donald Liu, assistant vice president and head of the ABS Research and Develop- ment Division, "Currently, the Hull

Structure sections of the Rules are being programmed for the comput- er. These sections are being tested and validated for release in July 1985. In addition to the the ABS

Rules, the EAGLE system includes program modules to perform calcu- lations for hull girder strength anal- ysis, ship hydrostatics and stability,

Circle 131 on Reader Service Card structural element properties, and frame analysis, to name a few."

Additional programs relating to naval architecture and offshore en- gineering are being developed and will be made available as they are completed.

Benefits to users of the EAGLE program system will be the elimina- tion of the duplication of effort by the designer and ABS, and a reduc- tion of paper flow and delays for plan review. These time and cost savings will be beneficial to design- ers and shipowners.

Ingersoll Rand Awarded $3.2-Million Navy Contract

For Centrifugal Pumps

Ingersoll Rand Company, Cam- eron Pump Division, Phillipsburg,

N.J. is being issued a $3,249,840 order under a basic ordering agree- ment to furnish 66 centrifugal pumps in support of the FFG-7 pro- gram. Work will be performed in

Phillipsburg and is expected to be completed by December 31, 1985.

Contract funds would not have ex- pired at the end of the current fiscal year. The Navy Ships Parts Control

Center, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity.

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