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NAVY CONTRACTS a $25 million Field Engineering Ser- vices (FES) contract by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Com- mand (N00039-93-C-0059) for field engineering services organization for world wide support for the U.S.

Navy's Integrated Undersea Sur- veillance System (IUSS) program.

Bender Shipbuilding & Re- pair Company, Inc., Mobile, Ala., was awarded a Maritime Adminis- tration contract for the drydocking and repair of the Ready Reserve

Force cargo ship SS Buyer. The total contract value exceeds $1 mil- lion and will last approximately 25 days.

Empress Software, Inc., of

Toronto, Canada, recently an- nounced that the U.S. Navy has ac- cepted delivery of its Empress Rela- tional Database Management Sys- tem (RDBMS) for use in the $200- million Primary Oceanographic Pre- diction System (POPS), provided through Grumman Data centers at the Naval Oceanographic Center,

Monterey, Calif.

Grumman, the prime integrator on the ten-year contract, is to pro- vide the Empress RDBMS and 4GL as well as hardware, software, in- stallation, operation, maintenance and support services for POPS.

Approximately ten percent of the contract belongs to Empress Soft- ware.

The Navy's requirements on the contract called for a RDBMS capable of running on all of the computers used at the Naval Oceanographic

Office and at the Fleet Numerical

Oceanography Center.

Beyond providing its software,

Empress personnel are on-site full- time at both Stennis and Monterey to provide technical expertise and assistance in supporting and con- verting databases.

PRC, Inc., of McLean, Va., was recently awarded the Super-Mini-

Computer procurement (AFCAC 300) contract from the U.S. Depart- ment of Defense (DOD). PRC will be the prime contractor for the nine- year contract, which has a total po- tential value of $2.5 billion.

The Super-Mini contract is the procurement vehicle for the U.S.

Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Defense Logistics Agency to ac- quire mini-computer systems for a variety of operations, including of- fice automation, database manage- ment systems (DBMS) and engineer- ing applications. Government civil- ian agencies may also use the con- tract for procuring their mini-com- puter systems. In addition, the con- tract provides for PRC to supply a full range of systems integration and support services.

The Super-Mini-Computer con- tract is one of the largest indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) procurements ever awarded by the

DOD. It specifies five years for the procurement of hardware and soft- ware, plus an additional four years for maintenance and support ser- vices.

Unisys Corp.'s, Paramax Sys- tems Corporation, McLean, Va., recently received a $17 million con- tract from the U.S. Naval Sea Sys- tems Command to groom the combat systems for guided missile frigates for a friendly nation.

The new contract modification covers an array of engineering ser- vices for additional ships and is scheduled to run until mid-1997.

Under the foreign military sales contract modification, Paramax will provide technical, logistics, program management, engineering and ma- terial support services for the frigate's combat systems.

Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems (DRS), Inc., of Oakland, N.J., has received a $2.5 million contract from

Magnavox Electronics Company,

Fort Wayne, Ind., to provide en- hancements to video display genera- tor units for the U.S. Navy's Im- proved Processor and Display Sys- tem program.

The company's military systems division will provide the enhance- ments which are designed to up- grade the antisubmarine warfare (ASW) display systems onboard

Navy P-3 Orion maritime patrol air- craft.

American Pacific Corpora- tion, Las Vegas, Nev., announced that the U.S. Navy has completed two days of extensive testing of its

Halotron I fire suppressant agent and application technology.

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