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Todd-Seattle Awarded $6-Million Navy Contract

For Work On Support Ship

John T. Gilbride Jr., vice presi- dent and general manager of Todd

Pacific Shipyards Corporation's

Seattle Division, has announced the award of a $6-million Navy phased maintenance contract for routine maintenance work without drydock- ing on the fast combat support ship

USS Camden (AOE-2). This con- tract is the first of five for phased maintenance work on the Camden and sister ship USS Sacramento (AOE-1) expected to be awarded during the next five years. Bidding on the first contract was restricted to Puget Sound shipyards; the

Camden is based at Bremerton,

Wash.

Todd-Seattle industrial and pub- lic relations manager Steve Stan- ford said this maintenance contract will provide 400 jobs during the four-month period the ship is in the yard, with 25 to 30 support person- nel continuing between overhaul contracts.

The Seattle yard's current back- log includes a $236-million Coast

Guard contract for modernization of eight Hamilton Class cutters, and a $15-million Navy contract for the regular overhaul of the destroyer

USS Harry W. Hill (DD-986).

Todd-Seattle is one of two final- ists in competition for follow-on construction of the Navy's air cush- ion landing craft (LCAC).

Hi-Test Appoints LeBlanc

NS&V Project Manager

Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc. of

Buckingham, Va., one of the coun- try's leading authorities on U.S.

Navy warship noise, shock and vi- bration (NS&V), recently an- nounced the employment of Larry

J. LeBlanc as project manager for the NS&V consulting group.

Mr. LeBlanc is a graduate of

Tulane University and is a member of the National Physics Honor So- ciety. He has over 12 years' experi- ence organizing and managing

NS&V programs for major ship- yards constructing U.S. Navy ships.

He comes to Hi-Test directly from

Avondale Shipyards, Inc., where he was assistant project engineer in the

Mechanical Design Section for

LSD-44 NS&V.

Mr. LeBlanc's first assignment at Hi-Test is to provide assistance to Bell Aerospace Textron on the

NS&V program for the unique mine sweeper/hunter surface-effect ship.

He will also play a major role in pro- viding similar services to other ship- builders in the U.S.

Oceaneering Uses Signals

From GPS Satellites To

Position Drilling Rig

Using satellite signals only,

Oceaneering International, Inc. of

Houston has accurately positioned the Doo-Sung, a semi-submersible

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Alaska's Navarin Basin. This is said to be the first time a rig has been positioned without the use of land- based or acoustic positioning sys- tems.

In June this year Oceaneering's chief surveyor, Eric Swinney, po- sitioned the rig using the Magnavox

T-Set, one of the first commercial units to track satellite signals emit- ted from the U.S. Global Position- ing System (GPS). Signals from the six operational GPS satellites now in orbit, along with signals from the

TRANSIT satellite system, were used to provide the data needed for accurate positioning.

The satellite tracking unit, about the size of a personal computer, is operated directly from the rig, elim- inating the need for costly shore sta- tions and acoustic arrays. The unit enables Oceaneering's surveyors to monitor satellite signals and the rig's position, speed, and course anywhere in the world. The entire satellite constellation has not yet been fully deployed, but when com- plete, the GPS will provide 24-hour coverage in all weather, with four satellites present in any given celes- tial hemisphere at all times.

For further information on Oce- aneering International's services,

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