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ITT Awarded $14.5-Million Contract

For Voice Terminal Unit

ITT Corporation, Defense Com- munications Division, Nutley, N.J., was awarded a $14,463,600 firm- fixed-price contract for the produc- tion of the Advanced Narrowband

Digital Voice Terminal (ANDVT) including the basic terminal unit and accessories for ship, air and shore use.

The work will be performed in both Melbourne, Fla. (80 percent) and Nutley (20 percent), and is expected to be completed June 30, 1990. The Space and Naval Warfare

Systems Command, Washington,

D.C., is the contracting activity (N00039-86-C-0032).

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HENSCHEL

Digital Master

Clock System

The Henschel Digital Master

Clock System provides a syn- chronized display of time in various shipboard locations. The master clock displays both local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

This crystal controlled, microcomputer based master clock transmits multiplexed time (hours, minutes and seconds) and date (month, day and year) information to a maximum of 40 remote repeater clocks and/or data and bell loggers.

The remote repeater clocks display either local time or GMT in various mounting configurations to suit most applications.

Time is continuously displayed on both the master and repeater clocks by red, 6 digit LED displays, easily viewed up to 25 feet away. The date is displayed on the master clock by use of a front panel switch. This calendar function is set to maintain the correct date for changes in month, day, year and leap year.

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Battery back-up is provided to maintain both time and date in the master clock and in a few selected repeater clocks during any loss of input power.

Clock accuracy is maintained independent of the input power frequency by a self-contained crystal oscillator. Time and date are easily set by means of pushbuttons on the front panel. When changing time zones, hours may be changed independently of minutes and seconds so that time accuracy is not lost.

HENSCHEL

Henschel 9 Hoyt Drive

P.O. Box 30

Newburyport, Massachusetts 01950 U.S.A. (617) 462-2400 Telex: (RCA) 294074

Aegis cruiser Thomas S. Gates slides into the Kennebec River after recent christening. She is largest combatant ship built by BIW in its 101-year history.

Bath Iron Works Launches

Its First Aegis Cruiser

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A new era of Navy shipbuilding was ushered in at Maine's historic

Bath Iron Works (BIW) yard re- cently with the launching of the

Aegis guided missile cruiser Thomas

S. Gates (CG-51), signalling BIW's entry into the Ticonderoga Class shipbuilding program.

The Maine shipyard currently has contracts for six Aegis cruisers, and will continue to bid for additional ships of the class. BIW also has been selected by the Navy to design and build the lead ship of the new Aegis guided missile destroyer class, the

Arleigh Burke (DDG-51). This ship is scheduled for launching in 1988.

The Aegis cruiser/destroyer pro- gram is expected to extend to the turn of the century and perhaps beyond.

Bath Iron Works, a builder of

Navy and commercial ships since 1884, looks to the Aegis program to replace the construction activity and employment generated by the

Navy's FFG-7 guided missile frigate program that the yard initiated in the early 1970s. After designing and building the lead ship of that class, the Oliver Hazard Perry, BIW se- cured contracts for 23 additional

FFGs. The last of those ships will be delivered this year.

The principal speaker for the

Gates launching ceremony was

Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., who was Chief of Naval Operations when he retired from the Navy in 1974.

Since his retirement, Adm. Zum- walt has remained in the public eye as a spokesman for the maintenance of proper balance of power between the United States and the Soviet

Union.

Other participants in the program included Sen. George J. Mitchell (D-ME); Vice Adm. William H.

Rowden, commander of the Naval

Sea Systems Command; Vice Adm.

Joseph Metcalf III, deputy naval operations for surface warfare; Rear

Adm. Donald P. Roane, deputy commander for surface combatants;

Rear Adm. John F. Shaw, Aegis shipbuilding manager; and Capt.

William A. Rehder, supervisor of shipbuilding, conversion and repair,

Bath.

The ship that was launched is named in honor of the late Thomas

Sovereign Gates, Jr., former

Secretary of the Navy (1957) and

Secretary of Defense (1959) under

President Eisenhower. After 14 months as Secretary of Defense, Mr.

Gates left the Pentagon and be- came president of Morgan Guaranty

Trust. In 1965, he became the firm's chairman and chief executive offi- cer. He died in 1983 at the age of 77.

His widow, Mrs. Anne Gates, served as the ship's sponsor. Her granddaughter, Sarah C. Scott, was maid of honor.

For complete information on all

Bath Iron Works facilities and ser- vices,

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Unaflex is the only American manufacturer of both stainless steel and rubber bellows-type expansion joints.

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