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Navy

ABS To Class LCS

ABS will class the U.S. Navy's

Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). by apply- ing technical Rules and standards estab- lished in its newly developed Naval

Vessel Rules. "We have been working with the U.S. Navy for a prolonged peri- od to merge commercial processes with naval technical requirements to produce a ship classification approach tailored to the needs of the military." said Glenn

Ashe. Director. ABS Government

Operations. ABS has been working to develop a stand-alone set of classifica- tion standards for a wide range of non- nuclear surface combatants. It worked with the Navy to develop the ABS Guide for Building and Classing High Speed

Naval Craft which supports the develop- ment of several new military vessels.

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DRS Technologies Wins

Aircraft Carrier Contract

DRS Technologies won a $5.6 million contract to continue to design advanced propulsion steam turbines for the U.S.

Navy's next-generation CVN-78 class of aircraft carriers. The award was received by DRS from Dresser-Rand

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GE to Power

Australian Frigate

GE Marine's LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbine will power the Royal

Australian Navy's (RAN) eighth

ANZAC-class frigate, Nuship Ballarat, which was recently delivered to the

RAN. The ANZAC ship program is a collaboration between Australia and

New Zealand, and involves the con- struction of 10 new ANZAC class frigates - eight for the RAN and two for the Royal New Zealand Navy.

The 387.1 ft. (118-m) ANZAC frigates are based on the MEKO 200 platform design for worldwide opera- tion under climatic and oceanographic conditions ranging from tropical to sub- arctic. built by Tenix Defence Pty Ltd. at the Williamstown shipyard. Each frigate features one GE LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbine in a com- bined diesel or gas turbine configuration with two MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesel engines.

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FDGM Wins Navy Engine

Upgrade Contract

FDGM won a U.S. Navy contract to upgrade the performance of diesel engines on the USS Warrior and USS

Gladiator. The contract value is more than S4 million and includes refurbish- ment and upgrades of all engines to a configuration that demonstrated improved reliability and performance in a previous one-year test. All work is to be performed in the Ingleside, TX, area by FDGM's Gulf Coast Operation, located in Aransas Pass. TX.

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First Hybrid Sub

BMT announced it has designed, in cooperation with Rolls-Royce, an inno- vative non-nuclear, all-electric subma- rine. The SSGT (Ship Submersible Gas

Turbine) can reportedly travel faster and further than conventional diesel-electric submarines using novel power genera- tion. In semi-submerged mode it can travel up to 20 knots using air-breathing gas turbines for ranges in excess of

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