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Tracor, Inc., has won a seven- year contract with a total potential value of $38.7 million to provide engineering services for the design and installation of the radio com- munications system (RCS) for a new construction Nimitz class air- craft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). The contract includes an option for retrofit of the same system onboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68). Under the contract,

Stolt Comox And

Azerbaijan State Oil

Form Joint Venture

Stolt Comex Seaway S.A., a sub- sea contractor to the oil and gas industry based in Aberdeen,

Scotland, has signed an agree- ment with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), a major oil and gas producer in the

Caspian Sea, to form a joint ven- ture company to provide subsea services to oil companies operat- ing in the Azer and Caspian off- shore areas.

The joint venture company will reportedly be located in Baku, and will provide a number of ser- vices, specifically: assistance to drilling operations; subsea con- struction services related to pipeline installation and offshore leld development; subsea inspec- ion, maintenance and repair of iffshore structures and pipelines; urvey and positioning related to onstruction activities; small iameter flowline installation; nd integrated subsea field devel- pment and subsea engineering.

Operations in Baku were sched- led to begin immediately, with le establishment of a training rnter for offshore personnel hile the company promoted its rvices to local customers, aitially, the company will focus i the provision of services for e forthcoming drilling program the Kaspmorneft, and offshore nstruction work related to drag 1 Early Oil project for the

OC consortium — a consor- m of 11 oil companies led by itish Petroleum and Amoco for i exploration and development ~ields in the Azerbaijan sector he Caspian Sea. other contract news, Sonsub 3 also recently awarded a $14- lion job by Elf Angola for the ,allation and commissioning 6 km of pipelines as part of development of a series of gas

Is off the coast of Angola, pipelines, which will report- serve the Buffalo, Palanca, issa, Impala and Cobo fields, scheduled for installation • this year. 1996

Tracor will perform total system design, integration and tests of

CVN-76 RCS using a "design bud- get" approach developed by the

U.S. Navy for the Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class destroyers.

The latest Navy-approved equip- ment, fully integrated and tested in a test bed simulating the radio room of the aircraft carrier, will be delivered to the Navy for installa- tion aboard the CVN.

According to K. Bruce Hamil- ton, president of Tracor Applied

Sciences, "This contract is a major extension of our core business in communications system integra- tion into a new class of surface combatants. The CVN is the fourth class of ship for which

Tracor will deliver production com- munication suites."

Since 1978, the company has reportedly delivered RCS for 27

Aegis cruisers, 21 Aegis destroyers and six Taiwanese frigates.

Tracor is reportedly one of the 15 largest defense electronics firms in the U.S., and released sales figures totaling $886.9 million for 1995.

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Tracor Applied Sciences, Inc.

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