Page 77: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (November 1986)

$61.7-Million Contract

Awarded To IBM By Navy

For Signal Processors

International Business Machines

Corporation, Federal Systems Divi- sion, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $61,704,000 fixed-price contract for long lead materials for

AN/UYS-1 advanced signal pro- cessors. Work will be performed in

Manassas (40 percent), and Owego,

N.Y. (60 percent), and is expected to be completed in July 1989. This contract combines purchases for the

U.S. Navy (99 percent) and for

Spain (1 percent), under the For- eign Military Sales program. The

Naval Sea Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-86-C-5212).

Sperry Gets $17.5-Million

Navy Contract To Design

And Build LCAC Trainer

The U.S. Naval Training Systems

Center has awarded Sperry Corpo- ration a $17.5-million contract to design, develop, and assemble a full- mission simulator for the Landing

Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC). Under the terms of the contract, the train- er is scheduled to be ready for oper- ation by August 1989.

This LCAC trainer is said to be the first in the free world to simu- late the performance and environ- ment of a hovercraft. It will recreate not only the unique motion dynam- ics of the hovercraft in various sea conditions, but also the high-speed transition from sea to land and land to sea through varying surf condi- tions.

The LCAC, manufactured by the

Bell Aerospace division of Textron, is a high-speed, ship-to-shore and over-the-beach hovercraft landing vehicle, capable of carrying a 60-ton payload. It is designed to carry the combat and logistics vehicles of a

Marine Corps landing force to shore at speeds in excess of 40 knots. Cur- rent landing craft have a top speed of eight knots.

Don O. Hartman, Sperry's pro- gram manager for the LCAC trainer, said the simulator will have a com- puter-generated imagery system ca- pable of producing full-daylight scenes. Like many aircraft simula- tors, the LCAC trainer will also have a six-degree-of-freedom motion base. To permit flexibility in train- ing and ease of skill transfer, the simulation system will be equipped with two separate instructor sta- tions, one located on the motion platform, the other located off the platform nearby.

The LCAC trainer will simulate the craft's entire control cabin, in- cluding the three trainee stations for the craftmaster, engineer, and navigator, as well as the group com- mander station. The trainer's in- structor will be able to teach all maneuvers likely to be encountered during a complete mission. This in- cludes docking and docking at the mother ship, maneuvering in waters ranging from dead calm to Sea State 5, approaching land, and maneuver- ing through the surf zone to the beach zone and return. In addition, the trainer will enable students to recognize navigation aids with and without radar. It will also be capable of simulating malfunctions and al- lowing instruction in the proper reaction to emergencies.

For free literature on the full range of marine electronics from

Sperry,

Circle 42 on Reader Service Card

Port Of Houston Names

Leach New President;

Pugh Executive Director

The commissioners of the Port of

Houston Authority recently voted unanimously to name Richard P.

Leach as president and James D.

Pugh as executive director, accord- ing to announcement by Archie

Bennett Jr., chairman.

As president, Mr. Leach will serve as a Port of Houston employee over the next two years and repre- sent the Port with shippers, nation- al trade groups and international associations.

Mr. Pugh is being promoted to

Mr. Leach's former position as ex- ecutive director and will assume full responsibility for managing port fa- cilities.

Both changes will become effec- tive December 1.

Vi

Hose-McCann Telephone Co., Inc., originators and pioneers of Sound Powered telephones for marine use, has expanded their product line to include a wide variety of U.S. Navy Electrical and

Mechanical products. An assortment of these products are shown here. All Hose-McCann Navy Products are manufactured, tested, and qualified in accordance with the latest

Military specifications.

Please call or write for further information and specifications on these or any other Navy Products.

With CALL SIGNAL STATION IC/D

Symbol No. 2988

J* !

I ! § ss

SOUND-POWERED

TELEPHONE

JACK BOX

G15A/B/C

SOUND-POWERED

TELEPHONE

HANDSET

H203/U

HEAD-CHEST SET

STOWAGE BOX

Symbol No. 2924.1 (1 to 6 Compartments)

SOUND-POWERED

HEAD-CHEST

H200/U

H202/U

HANDSET HOLDER

Z33A/B

SOUND-POWERED

TELEPHONE PLUG

H39A

SOUND-POWERED

TELEPHONE JACK

H27A

ALARM BELLS & BUZZERS

IC/B2S4 (Other types available)

HORNS & SIRENS

IC/H1S4 (Other types available) 5 0 ! 1 \ ! f %

H HOSE McCAIMIM TELEPHONE CO., INC. 9 SMITH STREET ENGLEWOOD NEW JERSEY 07631

PHONE 201-567-2030 CABLE ADDRESS H0SETELC0 TELEX NO. 642837

ORIGINATORS AND PIONEERS OF SOUND POWERED TELEPHONES FOR MARINE USE

Circle 142 on Reader Service Card © 0 fa

November, 1986 103