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10 • MarineNews • February, 2005 News ICGS Awarded $144M WMSL Contract The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a con- tract totaling $144 million to Integrated Coast Guard Systems for production and deployment of the Coast Guard's second Maritime Security Cutter Large. The WMSL is the largest of three new cutter classes -- and the first under construction -- within the Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater System acquisition program. The Deepwater program will improve the Coast Guard's counter terrorism, mar- itime homeland security and overall mis- sion performance capabilities. "The Deepwater program is vital to transform- ing the Coast Guard and ensuring the delivery of required capabilities needed for the performance of homeland security and other missions," said Adm. Thomas H. Collins, commandant of the Coast Guard. "The system of systems approach is the most prudent, cost effective and efficient manner to transform the Coast Guard." The WMSL characteristics include: a length of 425 ft., a draft of 21 feet, a speed of 29 knots, stern launch ramp, 57mm and .50 calibers guns and dual helicopter hanger capability for both a multi-mission helicopter and unmanned air vehicles. Fabrication of the first WMSL began in September 2004, with the ship delivery scheduled in 2007. The anticipated deliv- ery schedule for the second WMSL is late 2008. The Deepwater system's integrator, ICGS, is an equal partnership between Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems. ICGS will subsequently issue subcontracts for Northrop Grumman Ship Systems to lead the WMSL produc- tion efforts in Pascagoula, Miss., while Lockheed will assume primary responsi- bility for integrating the ship into the sys- tem-wide command, control, communica- tions, computers, intelligence, surveil- lance and reconnaissance architecture, also known as C4ISR. Corps Awards Second Contract to Deepen Arthur Kill Channel The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District announced the award of a second contract to continue deepen- ing the Arthur Kill channel to 41 feet. The dredging will occur beginning near the confluence of the Arthur Kill channel and the Kill van Kull channel north of Shoot- ers Island and continue to the westerly limit of the New York Container Terminal (formerly Howland Hook Terminal) in Staten Island, NY. "The award of the second contract in the Arthur Kill signifies the continuation of the larger effort to create a world-class harbor estuary here in the Port of New York and New Jersey," said Col. Richard J. Polo, Jr., the Corps New York District Engineer. "The Army Corps is absolutely committed to a timely completion of nav- igation improvements within the harbor to meet the growing economic need for goods and services. At the same time, the Corps is equally committed to improving the environmental quality of this very important estuary. As with all our dredg- ing contracts in the New York and New Jersey Harbor estuary, we are once again employing the appropriate dredging tech- niques to minimize re-suspension and impacts to the environment. The goal at the end is to ensure all dredged material will be used beneficially to enhance the environment." The Corps $74 million contract is cost- shared with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It is part of an over- all $195 million Arthur Kill Deepening project, which is scheduled to be complet- ed in 2007. Work will be performed by Donjon Marine Co. of Hillside, New Jer- sey. The dredging is expected to remove approximately two million cubic yards of material, which includes approximately 600,000 cubic yards of non-rock material that will be processed at the Donjon pro- cessing facility at Berth 36 in Port Newark, NJ, and then used beneficially to close area landfills. Additionally, 900,000 cubic yards of material suitable for use as remediation at the Historic Area Remedi- ation Site (HARS) will be removed as well as 500,000 cubic yards of rock to be deposited at an artificial reef site. The Arthur Kill channel deepening effort is part of a more extensive harbor- dredging project to create safe and effi- cient channels for a larger class of vessels that will be calling at the Port of New Circle 215 on Reader Service Card " Q S P V E N F N C F S P G U I F - P D L I F F E . B S U J O 5 F B N U P C V J M E U I F / B W Z T - J U U P S B M $ P N C B U 4 I J Q 0 O D B M M X J U I U F D I O P M P H Z 0 R I N C I P A L # O U R T 3 U I T E # # H E S A P E A K E 6 ! F A X W W W F D G M C O M MN FEB05 (9-16).qxd 1/26/2005 3:36 PM Page 10
