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Westinghouse To Provide

Diesel Engines For USCG

Icebreaker

Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s

Marine Division has begun work on a $14.5 million contract from

Avondale Industries to provide die- sel engines for the U.S. Coast

Guard's (USCG) newest polar ice- breaker, the USCG Michael A.

Healy.

Under the purchase order from

Avondale, Westinghouse will pro- vide four 12-cylinder, 10,600-hp

ZA40S medium-speed engines.

The company is working closely with Fincantieri's diesel engine divi- sion in Trieste, Italy, which will physically build the engines. The engines will be delivered in January 1996. The current contract includes four sub-bases that will serve as mounts for the medium-speed die- sels. Generators for the icebreaker's electric drive propulsion system are being designed and manufactured by the Westinghouse Motor Com- pany in Round Rock, Texas, under a separate contract. The diesel-gen- erator units will power two 15,000- hp electric motors.

These motors will drive two fixed- pitch propellers. In addition to pro- viding power for the electric-drive system, the Westinghouse medium- speed diesels will also supply en- ergy for the ship's electrical service.

The Healy will be able to clear channels in icepacks up to 4.5 feet

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USCG Schedules Hearings

On Proposed Small

Passenger Vessel Regs

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has scheduled public hearings on a proposed rulemaking to completely update the existing construction and equipment standards for small pas- senger vessels.The standards would apply to more than 52,000 vessels including ferries, sight-seeing, ex- cursion and dinner cruise boats, charter and party fishing boats, dive boats and offshore oil industry crew boats. The proposed changes would simplify the small passenger vessel requirements and update them.

The proposal would cover certain lifesaving equipment; promote in- creased use of fire retardant materi- als; and establish new upper thresh- olds for vessel length and passenger capacity above which certain con- struction and equipment require- ments would apply. To register, write to the Executive Secretary,

Marine Safety Council (G-LRA-2),

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second St., S.W., Washington,

D.C. 20593-0001, tel: (202) 267-1477.

For more information or copies of the rulemaking, contact Lcmdr.

Marc C. Cruder, project manager,

Merchant Vessel Inspection and

Documentation Division (G-MVI), tel: (202) 267-1181.

CACI Wins $4.8 Million

Contract

CACI International has won a $4.8 million contract from the Navy, with options up to $7 million, to support the Department of Defense

Integrated Undersea Surveillance

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Comptek Wins $6.2 Million

Contract

Comptek Research, Inc.'s subsid- iary Comptek Federal Systems has won a $6.2 million U.S. Navy con- tract—a five-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded in April 1990 by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). The contract is for

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