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Shipboard Protection System, intended to enable naval vessels to counter asymmetric terrorist threats.

The Shipboard Protection System program will be managed from Northrop Grumman's locations in

Charlottesville, Va.; Annapolis, Md.; and Ocean

Springs, Miss.

Advanced Valve Technologies'

New Website

Advanced Valve Technologies (AVT) has launched its new website at www.advalve.com.

The site includes information on technical aspects of the products, a comprehensive list of distributors, and news of latest advancements.

Rubber Design Line Gets Approval

The existing Type Approval certificate of DNV con- cerning the RDanti vibration mountings has been expanded significantly to cover almost the entire prod- uct range of Rubber Designs' anti vibration mountings.

Cincinnati Electronics Wins Navy

Contract

The Cincinnati Electronics (L-3 CE) subsidiary of L- 3 Communications will provide the U.S. Navy's Sea

Fighter FSF-1 (Sea Fighter) with its Night Conqueror thermal imager. The Night Conqueror will be used in the Vistar 350 (a day/night surveillance system) sensor suite operating as a navigational electro-optical (EO) system on the Sea Fighter, which can operate at speeds greater than 50 knots and has a range of approximate- ly 4,000 nm.

Bender Wins ATB Contract

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc signed a con- tract with Maritrans Inc. to build three new articulated tug-barge units, each having a carrying capacity of 335,000 barrels. Construction will take place in

Mobile, Alabama, with completion of the first unit scheduled for October 2007.

Langh Wins Maritime Safety Prize

The safety prize is award- ed to Langh for the compa- ny's approach to their work, which has enhanced safety at sea and resulted in their operating efficiently and economically. The shipping company, based in Piikkiö near Turku in south-west

Finland, specializes in export deliveries of the

Finnish steel industry's heavy products.

Integrated Marine Power System

Industrial Power Systems,

Inc. Marine Division now offers an integrated marine power system. Control of all power sources is combined into a single switchboard.

Available features include: Single or Three phase 120/240, 120/208, or 480 Volt systems Integrated shore power transformers Remote control provisions

JCY-1700S VDR

Japan Radio received MED Type Approval for a

Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR), JRC's

JCY-1700S. "The JCY-1700S is the "simplified" version of the

JCY-1700 full VDR fitted on over 1250 cargo vessel new builds worldwide" said Mr. Toshi Amemiya,

General Manager of JRC North America.

The JCY-1700S is a two-unit system using a distrib- uted Ethernet solution allowing for efficient and cost effective installation with pre-configured VDR con- nections.

Like the "black boxes" carried on aircraft, VDRs &

S-VDRs enable incident investigators to review vessel procedures and any voice recordings in the time prior to an incident and can assist in identifying the cause. In addition, the playback and monitoring software of the

JCY-1700S, allows ship owners to further enable train- ing of their crew both onboard and on-shore and allow- ing staff to monitor critical ship parameters from their cabins using an optional PC and connection.

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Wärtsilä Wins New Zealand Contract

Wärtsilä won contracts for propulsion systems for the seven-vessel Project Protector of the Royal New Zealand

Navy. The main contractor for the project is the Australian defense supplier Tenix Defence Pty Ltd., on behalf of the

New Zealand Ministry of Defense. The project is for the supply of seven vessels: a 429 ft. (131 m) multi-role ves- sel (MRV), two 279 ft. (85 m) offshore patrol vessels (OPV) and four 180 ft. (55 m) inshore patrol vessels (IPV). The first will be delivered December 2006.

The vessels are intended for military and civilian roles in

New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), in the

South Pacific and the Southern Ocean. They will also con- duct tasks for and with NZ Customs, Department of Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry of Fisheries, NZ Maritime Safety Authority and the NZ Police.

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The offshore patrol vessels to be built by Tenix Defence

Pty Ltd for the New Zealand Navy will be equipped with

Wärtsilä propulsion systems.

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