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Airborne Equipment Chosen

For Shallow Water Surveys

LADS Corp. Ltd. of Adelaide,

South Australia, has selected

Bombardier Regional Aircraft

Division's de Havilland Dash 8(x)

Series 200B as an airborne plat- form for revolutionary hydrograph- ic survey of shallow coastal waters.

The contracted equipment is scheduled for delivery in June, and will then be modified and outfitted with the Laser Airborne Depth

Sounder (LADS) specialized shal- low water survey equipment, and will be available for service entry in mid-1998. LADS Corp. intends to contract its surveying capabili- ties globally. The LADS system measures water depth on a 240-m wide matrix at 16.9-ft. (5 m) sound- ing intervals for coastal waters to depths of 229.6 ft. (70 m).

H.E.R.C. Wins USCG Service

Contracts

H.E.R.C. Products Inc. has con- tracted to use its technology to clean the vacuum waste water lines aboard U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) cutters Vigilant, Seneca,

Tampa and Lagare. This agree- ment follows the successful com- pletion of vacuum waste water line cleaning projects aboard USCG cutters Forward, Bear and

Escanaba. H.E.R.QTHSLEO S.

Steven Carl comimtayWe are very pleased \^!*tkyncreasing volume fromfchVpSt^oast Guard.

With seaeiVskipl.3*nder our belt, we arehopeful that our propn|taryVhemicals and meth- ods wffl Become a part of the Coast

Guard'a^mnual preventative main- tenance program on its 80 ships that contain this type of waste water system."

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Raytheon To Acquire

Hughes Electronics Unit

Raytheon has struck a deal to buy the defense operations of

Hughes Electronics from General

Motors for $9.5 billion. The com- pany beat out Northrop Grumman

Corp. for the contract. In other news, Raytheon Engineers &

Constructors has been selected by the Naval Undersea Warfare

Center (NUWC) to operate and maintain NUWC's Atlantic

Undersea Test & Evaluation

Centers (AUTEC) in West Palm

Beach, Fla., and on Andros Island in the Bahamas, a contract with a potential value of $240 million.

Leica Acquires Philips

Navigation Business Unit

Leica GPS has announced the purchase of the ap navigator busi- ness unit of Philips Navigation A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark. TT-J — the agreement,

Philips products and systems, including the popular ap MD10, ap MK9 and ap MD8

GPS navigators.

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