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Moak, Chairman of Gibbs & Cox. "ARL is proud that ShipConstructor is being applied to the LCS project by

Gibbs & Cox Inc., Marinette Marine

Corp. and Bollinger Shipyards Inc.

We are confident that the Lockheed

Martin team will benefit from the new features added to ShipConstructor2005 under the NSRP Second-Tier Design

Enhancement Program (STDEP). Future

ShipConstructor functions will see a link between product lifecycle manage- ment (PLM) data and the

ShipConstructor 3D product model in a virtual reality environment, thus lower- ing the total costs of ownership," said

Rolf G. Oetter, President of Albacore

Research Ltd. (ARL). "The simplicity of our LCS design is evident both in its performance as well as its producibili- ty," said Dennis McCloskey, president of Manitowoc's Marine Group and

Marinette Marine Corp. "Producibility was built into the design from day one. And between both the Marinette and Bollinger shipyards, the team has the capacity and personnel in place today to build six ships per year in support of the Navy's long-term pro- duction requirements."

The propulsion system consists of from two diesel powerplants and two

Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines driving acoustically optimized waterjets.

The Lockheed Martin ship is designed

For more information on the companies par- ticipating in this project, circle the appropri- ate number on the Reader Service Card in this edition.

General Dynamics - BIW Team

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works 6

Austal Ships 7

General Dynamics Advanced

Information Systems 8

CAE 9

BAE Systems 10

Maritime Applied Physics Corporation 11

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. 12

GD Armament and Technical Products 13

GD Electric Boat 14

General Dynamics Canada 15

Lockheed Martin Corporation - Maritime

Systems & Sensors Team

Lockheed Martin Corporation - Maritime

Systems & Sensors 16

Bollinger Shipyards —

Rolls-Royce 18

Albacore Research 19

Gibbs & Cox 20

Marinette Marine 1

Donald L. Blount & Assoc 22

Fincantieri 23

Blohm + Voss 4

Angle Inc. 25

ABS 6

BBN Technologies 27

Charters Technical Services 28

DRS Technologies 29

July 2004 to launch, handle, and recover manned and unmanned systems, such as small boats and robotic watercraft. The design uses an overhead tracked crane system for loading and handling mission pack- ages, significantly accelerating ship reconfiguration both pierside and at sea with a small crew and higher levels of safety. "To give the Navy the ability to alter the mission of the ship in less than 24 hours is a transformational option that isn't available today," said Mike

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