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Marinette Supports USCG Deepwater Program

Marinette Marine's President and CEO Dan Gulling tes- tified last month before the House Coast Guard and

Maritime Transportation Subcommittee in support of the

Coast Guard's Deepwater Program. The Deepwater

Program has been developed to modernize the U.S. Coast

Guard's (USCG) aging fleet of ships and aircraft.

Marinette Marine Corporation is teamed with SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation); Sikorsky;

Bath Iron Works Corp. (A General Dynamics Company); and others. As the prime contractor, SAIC will be respon- sible for leading the team, performance systems modeling and electronic integration. Marinette Marine Corp. will lead the surface system effort and be responsible for all ship assets. Sikorsky will lead the aviation effort and be responsible for those assets. Bath Iron Works has respon- sibility for the engineering support, and will support and likely share in ship modernization and large ship procure- ment, as part of the surface systems effort. SOZA will be responsible for the logistics implementation. The size and complexity of the Deepwater Program — to replace 41

High and Medium Endurance Cutters; 49 Patrol Boats;

Helicopters; Fixed Wing Aircraft and implementing a new command, control and surveillance system requires a mul- tifaceted team. The USCG will award three study contracts, which will last 18 months. Upon completion of Phase I of the study contract the USCG will pick one, two or three of the best solutions, to participate in Phase II, which will define the system and its costs in more detail. Phase III would involve selection of one team for procurement. It is anticipated that the first ship construction contracts will be awarded to the winner of Phase III in Fiscal Year 2002.

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Ambar Names Chief Financial Officer

Ambar, Inc. — an integrated, total fluids man- agement company — has named Robert M.

Flavin as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Flavin goes to Ambar after a 13-year career with Basis

Petroleum, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice

President and CFO. During his tenure, Basis

Petroleum was the fifth largest independent oil refining and marketing company in the U.S. 3.MAJ Awarded Tanker Contracts

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Delivery of the oil tankers to their respective owners is scheduled for 2001.

TDI-Halter To Acquire Trinity Shipyard

TDI-Halter, L.P, a subsidiary of Halter

Marine Group, Inc., has entered into an agree- ment with Trinity Industries, Inc. to acquire

Trinity's shipyard in Orange, Texas. The sale of the yard was expected to close on May 29. The shipyard, which will be re-named, TDI-Halter-

Orange, will become the eighth TDI-Halter facil- ity and the 22nd shipyard of Halter Marine

Group, Inc. TDI-Halter intends to use the 77- acre facility to build mobile offshore drilling and production units as well as components for other rigs under construction at other TDI-Halter and

Halter Marine shipyards throughout the Gulf

South. Halter Marine Group, Inc. announced its backlog was a record $817 million at March 31, an 11 percent increase from the fourth quarter of

FY97. The $817 million year-end backlog can be broken down into the following business seg- ments: vessels, $529 million or 65 percent; rigs, $229 million or 28 percent; and engineering products, $60 million or seven percent.

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