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bridges. The visual simulators include two full mission bridges each with a 360-degree field of view and two bridge wing simula- tors for docking and UNREP exer- cises. The facility can put a ship's watch team on a simulated model of their own ship in any one of 10

Atlantic area ports or the open sea, at any time of the day, in any weather or visibility. Depending on the ship captain's own goals, the team is presented with realistic scenarios from routine underway replenishments, piloting and moorings to rapidly developing crises requiring quick decisions and skilled maneuvers.

New Ship Repair Director At

Newport News

Newport

News

Shipbuilding has named Rebecca

Stewart as director of Ship

Repair. Ms.

Stewart is responsible for the company's naval surface ship and com- mercial vessel repair activities from pre-contract through delivery. Prior to this, Ms.

Stewart was director of Life Cycle

Engineering where she managed the logistics business unit of the company.

Offshore Inland Completes

Work On SS Cape Jacob

Offshore Inland, Inc. has recent- ly completed a steering engine modification contract on the SS

Cape Jacob. The work included the installation of a remotely con- trolled pump selection system which required a complete new hydraulic control valve package. In addition, all of the high pressure steering gear piping was replaced with a bent stainless steel tubing system. The entire water tight door operating system was removed, remanufactured, rein- stalled and tested.

USNS Watson Deployed

The USNS Watson, first of the gas turbine-powered U.S. Navy

Sealift vessels, was deployed this summer. National Steel &

Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) built the 950 ft. (290 m) vessel and delivered it to the Military Sealift

Command in late June 1998.

Bondareff Retires From MarAd

Joan M. Bondareff retired from her position as Chief Counsel and Acting Deputy Maritime

Administrator at the end of

September. Ms. Bondareff, who joined the Maritime

Administration in 1994, was actively involved in developing strategies for maritime issues relating to national security and environmental pollution, devising creative financing alternatives for shipbuilding entities, negotiating agreements with and foreign gov- ernments, as well as overseeing the day-to-day operations.

Watson is powered by two GE

LM2500 aeroderivative gas tur- bines.

GE is also supplying the Sealift main reduction gears and the machinery automation drive and control system for the propulsion package. The second Sealift ship to be built by NASSCO, Sisler, is scheduled to be delivered in

December.

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