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imi.lilAHIMilWiliMM.ty 1 try member support necessary to be entered as a work item for ISO standard development. ISIT's roll- out will start in the fourth quarter of this year.

ISIT will allow a ship owner in

Greece to seamlessly exchange data with a class society in

Norway.

It makes true fleet-wide systems integration a reality with a host of financial benefits including dra- matically reduced communica- tions costs and numerous savings from financial integration. It holds the promise that an owner will be able to view or update a work procedure on his or her com- puter, and have it update all of the computers on his or her ships whether they are a mile away, or half way across the world.

ISIT Industry Advisory Board

Owners/Operators: •Stolt Parcel Tanker •Chevron Shipping •Sea-Land Service •Coastal Tankers Inc. • Osprey-Acomarit •Marine Transport Lines •Eletson Corp.

Shipyards: •Ingalls Shipbuilding •Bath Iron Works •NASSCO •Avondale •McDermott •Trinity Marine Group •Alabama Shipbuilding •Newport News

Communications Companies: •Comsat •Orbcom •AMSC •Iridium •Mobile Datacom

Classification/Government

Societies: •ABS •DNV •LLoyd's Register •U.S. Coast Guard

Virtual Reality: Denab

Presents DARPA Software

Deneb Robotics, Inc. recently gave a presentation of its Defense

Advanced Research Projects

Agency (DARPA), utilizing the

September, 1997 company's Envision and

Deneb/ERGO software to immerse participants in a ship firefighting scenario.

The demonstration was complet- ed in conjunction with Electric

Boat as part of a DARPA-spon- sored Simulation Based Designed (SBD) project, the most recent stage of which was led by

Lockheed Martin and focused on the Advaned Surface Combatant notional surface ship design.

Envision reportedly enables users to design, build, test, operate and support multiple product and system scenarios in a fast, efficient and cost-effective manner.

Envision provides an environment for developing and validating the design of complex mechanisms,

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