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Navy Spends $425,000 On

Battle Simulation Software

The U.S. Navy has issued a $425,000 contract to Software Sor- cery for the purchase of Naval Elec- tronic Software Warfare System

Emulation Trainers (NEWSET) for the ULQ-16 radar detection sys- tem.

These trainers combine a state- of-the-art authoring system with playback software and a signature recognition card to create an envi- ronment that accurately simulates complex electronic warfare scenarios on a cost-effective PC platform.

By emulating equipment such as the AN/ALR-66, SLQ-32V, ULQ-16,

APR-39, ALR-67 and other systems, the NEWSET Playback Program provides ultra-realistic representa- tions of electronic warfare environ- ments. The movements of aircraft, surface vessels, sub-surface vessels and missiles are all depicted on a true-to-life radarscope display, along with associated data for the course, speed, range and bearing of targets.

Under a separate $750,000 con- tract, NAVAIR has also purchased 140 Aviation Multifunction Elec- tronic Warfare Trainers (AMEWT) from Software Sorcery.

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Lifestream To Supply

Watermakers For Navy's

AGOR-24 Research Vessel

Lifestream Watersystems, Inc.,

Huntington Beach, Calif., has been selected to build two watermakers for AGOR-24, a 273-foot oceano- graphic ship being constructed at

Halter Marine, Moss, Point, Miss., a division of Trinity Marine Group, to be delivered to Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

The watermakers will have a 4,000-gallon/day capacity and will be skid-mounted with media filter, cartridge filters, booster pump, sea- water preheater, automatic backflush system and chemical cleaning system. They will be built to operate at capacity in water from -2 degrees C to 30 degrees C.

The machines will be a custom- ized modification of the Lifestream

SW line of continuous duty watermakers available in output from 400 to 8,000 gallons per day.

The SW line has found applications on research vessels, in the commer- cial marine industry and for land based use.

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ISOA Executive Committee

Deals With Offshore

Support Issues

At a recent meeting, the execu- tive committee of the International

Support Vessel Owners' Association (ISOA) discussed the medium- to long-term prospects of the offshore support vessel (OSV) industry and the implications of the fact that over 60 percent of the world's OSV fleet is now older than 11 years. "ISOA is concerned that in the long term (day rates) are still insufficient to permit any serious consideration of eventual fleet replacement," said

ISOA President Brian Butler, who suggested that offshore operators should seek more co-operative, long- term arrangements with charterers for reasonable returns.

The meeting concluded that the tendering process for procuring ser- vices is unnecessarily complex, and that a simplified tendering process would save money and improve effi- ciency; the committee also confirmed its intention to establish an indus- try-wide database of accident fig- ures to allow operators to gauge their performance against industry standards.

ISOA is the trade association of international support vessel own- ers, comprising 25 companies and most offshore operators, which col- lectively own over half the world's support vessel fleet.

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