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NNS Wins $65 M Contract For Submarine Work

Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) was awarded a contract worth nearly $65 million for continued design and support services for the

U.S. Navy's Seawolf class of attack submarines. NNS has worked as the lead design agent for the Seawolf class since design work began in 1987. The first and second ships of the class are currently under con- struction at General Dynamics' Elec- tric Boat Div. in Groton, Conn. As the lead design agent for the ship,

NNS will provide advice to the ship- builder during ship testing and con- tinued logistics support, such as digi- tal technical manuals for the ship's equipment systems. "This contract extension is particularly important to us now that the Navy's subma- rine work is decreasing," said Jim

Palmer, vice president, engineer- ing, NNS. "It helps us maintain our competitive position for future sub- marine design work while the Navy continues to get the benefit of the innovative design approach we are providing for the Seawolf submarine."The first ship of the class, SeawolfiSSN 21) is scheduled for delivery in May 1996.

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Good thing I had these "

Five hundred miles off the coast of Brazil, in 25 knot winds and 14 foot seas, Josh Hall learned how well his ALDENSART and Alden

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AWO Recognized For

Responsible Carrier Plan

The American Waterways Opera- tors (AWO) has been elected to the

Association's Advance America

Honor Roll in recognition for the establishment of the AWO Respon- sible Carrier Program. The pro- gram is a safety program for barge and towing companies which estab- lishes operating principles, prac- tices, and guidelines which exceed those currently required by federal law or U.S. Coast Guard regula- tions.

JAMSTEC Awards

Multibeam Survey System

Contract To SeaBeam

SeaBeam Instruments was awarded a contract by the Japan

Marine Science & Technology Cen- ter (JAMSTEC) for a multibeam bathymetric survey system which will feature a fully integrated sub- bottom profiler. SeaBeam will de- liver a SEA BEAM 2100 survey sys- tem, model 2112.004, for installa- tion on JAMSTEC's new 8,600-ton ocean survey vessel.

The SEA BEAM 2100 series is the company's fourth generation of multibeam bathymetric survey so- nars.

For more information from SeaBeam

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Sonardyne Installs Vessel

Positioning System

An integrated long-ultra short baseline (LUSBL) positioning sys- tem has been installed on the pipelaying vessel Norlift by

Sonardyne of the U.K. Norlift is operated by Northern Ocean Ser- vices Ltd. of the U.K., and the vessel will use the system to support flex- ible pipelaying work on BP's

Foinaven Field, West of Shetlands.

The system comprises a multi-ele- ment transducer cabled to a Navi- gation Processor, which is the sys- tem controller and display unit. The vessel will navigate to the Foinaven area and drop a transponder to the seabed. Using data from both the

GPS and the Sonardyne system, the position estimate of the transpon- der is continuously upgraded and improved. In practice, this report- edly represents an accuracy of bet- ter than .5 percent of slant range from ship to the seabed transpon- der.

For more information on Sonardyne

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