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GE Awarded $88.6-Million Pact

General Electric, Government

Electronics Systems Division,

Moorestown, N.J., was recently awarded a $88,555,249 cost-plus- fixed-fee contract for engineering support services for the Aegis com- bat system on DDG-2313, a Japa- nese Self-Defense Force ship. The work will be performed in Moores- town (93 percent) and Japan (7 per- cent). The contract (N00024-87-C- 5107) was awarded by the Naval Sea

Systems Command.

MSC Awards Central Gulf $6.4-Million Contract

For Barge Charter

Central Gulf Lines, Inc. of New

Orleans, La., has been awarded a

S6.4-million contract for charter of the Caps Express, a semisubmersi- ble barge chartered by MSC to pre- position Army equipment. The con- tract period is 17 months with two 17-month options. It is funded by the Department of the Army, and the Armv will have operational con- trol.

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