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Halotron I is intended as a replace- ment for ozone-depleting Halon 1211 used in firefighting systems through- out the world.

The tests were conducted at the

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station at

Beaufort, S.C. In addition to the

Navy and Marine Corps, represen- tatives of other interested military and federal agencies were in atten- dance during the testing.

Bender Shipbuilding & Re- pair Company, Mobile, Ala., has been awarded a $3 million contract by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift

Command (MSC) for the drydock- ing, alteration and repair of the cable repair ship USNS Zeus (T-ARC 7).

Bender will perform the work in 45 days and employ 75 workers.

The mission of the USNS Zeus is to support various Navy underwa- ter cable activities. The MSC vessel is 503 feet in length, has a beam of 73 feet and displaces approximately 12,000 long tons.

Harris Corporation, of

Melbourne, Fla., has received a six- year, $180 million contract from the

U.S. Navy Space and Naval War- fare Systems Command to provide a new generation of high-frequency (HF) radio communication systems for surface ships.

Harris reported that the initial contract award is worth approxi- mately $33.5 million.

Under the contract, Harris RF

Communications, a Harris Corp. division based in Rochester, N.Y., will supply about 100 complete high- frequency ship sets, which will be used for retrofitting a portion of the

Navy's major surface ships and for new construction. HF radio is used for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore long-range, over-the-horizon com- munications.

Harris is also installing similar systems aboard 12 new vessels in the Canadian Patrol Frigate pro- gram under a $22.5 million contract from Paramax Electronics, Inc., based in Montreal, Canada.

Litton Industries, Inc.'s

Ingalls Shipbuilding division, of

Pascagoula, Miss., has been awarded a $30.3 million contract option to continue providing planning yard service support to the Navy's

Ticonderoga Class (CG 47) Aegis cruisers.

Ingalls is currently constructing the last four of the 19 cruisers it has been contracted to build.

Under the support contract, origi- nally awarded in 1984, Ingalls pro- vides design, engineering, schedul- ing and logistics support services and planning for the maintenance, upgrading and overhaul of all Aegis cruisers in the fleet.

Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport

News, Va., has won a $400,000 con- tract for engineering and design work to convert commercial vessels to Navy sealift ships.

Bender Shipbuilding & Re- pair Company, Inc., of Mobile,

Ala., has been awarded a $400,000

Phase I contract by the Naval Sea

Systems Command (NAVSEA) to develop the Contract Design for the conversion of existing Roll-on/Roll- off (RoRo) ships to meet the require- ments of the Navy Strategic Sealift program.

Bender will provide the Navy with a comprehensive engineering pack- age which describes in detail the modification of existing RoRo ships for conversion to strategic sealift ships. This engineering data will be provided to NAVSEA within 90 days.

Following submittal of the technical data, Bender will provide its de- tailed proposal for the conversion of a minimum of two ships. If accepted by the Navy, the conversion work would be accomplished by Septem- ber, 1995, at Bender's Mobile ship- yard.

Naval Vessels Under Construction

Symbol Type

No. of

Vessels

Total Light

Disp. Tons

AOE Fast Combat Support Ship 3 59,100

CG Guided Missile Cruiser 4 38,000

CVN Aircraft Carrier (Nuclear) 2 182,000

DDG Guided Missile Destroyer 21 174,300

LHD Amphibious Assault Ship 3 85,500

LSD Dock Landing Ship 3 35,682

MCM Mine Countermeasures Ship 5 6,310

MHC Coastal Minehunter Ship 10 8,910

SSBN Ballistic Missile Submarine (Nuclear) 5 62,500

SSN-688 Attack Submarine (Nuclear) 12 72,000

SSN-21 Attack Submarine (Nuclear) 2 18,300

T-AGOS-19 Ocean Surveillance Ship (SWATH) 2 4,972

T-AGOS-23 Ocean Surveillance Ship (SWATH) 1 3,800

T-AGS-45 Deep Ocean Survey Ship 1 7,312

T-AGS-60 Oceanographic Survey Ship 3 9,057

T-AO Fleet Oiler 7 105,000

Total 84 872,743

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