Litton AMTD Awards
$8-Million Contract To
Technical Associates
A contract in excess of $8 million
has been awarded to Technical As-
sociates of New Orleans, Inc., by
the Advanced Marine Technology
Division of Litton Systems, Inc.,
El Segundo, Calif. The contract
encompasses the design, develop-
ment and fabrication of a complete
automation system, including the
ship's control console, forward and
aft machinery - space - centralized
control consoles and the data cen-
ter for nine new U.S. Navy am-
phibious assault vessels. The elec-
tronic control systems will include
the throttle control system, boiler
control system, turbine bearing
temperature detecting system and
many other ship's systems.
The ships will be built at Lit-
ton's Ingalls Shipbuilding Division,
Pascagoula, Miss. Technical As-
sociates' president Melvin Gold-
stein said, "The Litton contract is
the largest single contract award-
ed to Technical Associates, and
with an average of 20 high quality
merchant ships completed each
year by U.S. shipyards, this places
Technical Associates among the
top five companies as a supplier for
control systems and consoles for
the marine industry."
Marine systems account for over
75 percent of the company's current
Kockum's Combustion Control MK3 Dorft touch it]
It is pre-programmed to regulate combustion so that
steam pressure delivered to the turbines will be
constantly maintained as close as possible to the ideal.
Electronics in the form of integrated circuits have here
replaced human brain and hand.
The result is greater reliability and economy: which
were two of the aims we set ourselves when we started
design work on the Combustion Control MK3.
As shipbuilders, we know the processes and problems
from the inside. That is why Kockums now
manufactures advanced electronic equipment. It also
explains why the fully marinised Combustion Control
MK3 features sophisticated monitoring and is flexible,
compact, easy to install and very simple to adjust.
The outfit is equally suitable for ships under
construction as for ships already in operation.
Moreover, the name Kockums is a guarantee of
operational satisfaction.
For further information please write to
KOCKUMS
MEKANISKA VERKSTADS AB MAfMO SWEDEN
Representatives in USA:
KOCKUMS SHIPYARD INC.
250 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017
MESSRS. ROHRER MARINE BURNER
P O. Box 860, Los Altos, Calif. 94022
business. Technical Associates is
also under contract with Avondale
Shipyards, Inc. for centralized con-
trol consoles on 11 LASH ships
and the main propulsion system
control consoles for three U.S.
Coast Guard High-Endurance Cut-
ters. Technical Associates also de-
signed and fabricated the first
American-built, centralized cargo-
handling consoles for the ESSO
San Francisco, ESSO Philadelphia
and ESSO Baton Rouge, the larg-
est ships built by Avondale Ship-
yards, Inc. to date.
Besides ship automation, Techni-
cal Associates is also involved with
the design and fabrication of elec-
tronics equipment for the C-5A
cargo aircraft under development
by Lockheed-Georgia Company for
the Department of Defense, indus-
trial and offshore automation, data
acquisition and supervisory control
systems, and computer peripherals.
Pearlson Engineering
Names James Long
Manager Of Sales
James M. Long
James M. Long has been ap-
pointed manager of sales at Pearl-
son Engineering Company, and has
assumed responsibilities for sales of
all Syncrolift dry docks and related
equipment to the marine field. Ac-
cording to Raymond Pearlson,
president and founder, Mr. Long's
duties will include overall direction
of activities of a network of sales
representatives in 19 countries.
Mr. Long joined Pearlson Engi-
neering Company in July 1969 as
a sales engineer. Previously, he was
a member of the board of directors
at Crandall Dry Dock Engineers,
Inc., Cambridge, Mass. For more
than 15 years, he supervised con-
struction of new dry dock installa-
tions and was engineer in charge of
major reconstruction projects from
Newfoundland to the West Indies.
In his present capacity, he is ex-
pected to travel more extensively
to shipyards abroad assisting in
initial planning of modern dry dock
facilities.
Mr. Long was born in Norwood,
Mass., served in the United States
Navy for five years as a diver
and instructor of diving and sub-
marine escape apparatus. He at-
tended Franklin Technical Insti-
tute, Northeastern University, and
currently resides in Miami, Fla.
Pearlson Engineering Company
is the exclusive worldwide pro-
ducer and distributor of Syncrolift
dry-docking and transfer systems.
The company's main offices are in
Miami, Fla.
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