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$15 Million Subcontract To Tracor For Navy Surface Ship Programs Tracor Applied Sciences, Austin, Texas, a subsidiary of Tracor, has been awarded a subcontract by Vredenburg of Reston, Va., to pro- vide engineering and technical ser- vices to the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA 63Y1) in the areas of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) systems and programs. Tra- cor's share of this five-year contract is approximately $15 million. K. Bruce Hamilton, Tracor Applied Sciences Group vice presi- dent, announced that the company will provide engineering services to support the design, installation, test and evaluation, and life-cycle main- tenance of surface ship in-service ASW systems. Tracor has been pro- viding similar support to NAVSEA 63Y1 since 1978. PacOrd To Install New Threat Upgrade On Two Navy Cruisers PacOrd, a member of the Phila- delphia-based SPD Technologies family of companies, has been se- lected to install the New Threat Upgrade (NTU) on two CG-26 class cruisers. NTU is designed to upgrade the Anti-Warfare capabilities of the U.S. Navy's older cruisers and guid- ed missile destroyers. It entails ex- tensive modernization of the Terrier Missile system and replacement of the majority of the ship's search radar systems and Naval Technical Data computer installations. PacOrd has extensive experience with NTU, starting with the 1987 overhaul of the USS Mahan (DDG- 42), the Navy's prototype for NTU. PacOrd's newest NTU jobs will be on board USS William H. Stand- ley (CG-32) at Northwest Marine Iron Works in Portland, Ore., and USS Wainwright (CG-28) at Metro Machine in Norfolk, Va. For nearly 40 years PacOrd has been an important full-service com- bat systems contractor supporting the U.S. Navy through private ship- yards, DoD contracting agencies and OEMs. For literature describing Pac- Ord's available services and applica- tions, Circle 55 on Reader Service Card D. W. Pryor Appointed At Diversified Technologies Naval architecture and marine engineering firm Diversified Tech- nologies has recently appointed David W. Pryor as senior engi- neer responsible for commercial ship and U.S. Navy non-combatant ship support programs. Mr. Pryor has 11 years' experience in marine design and analysis and was Chief Engineer with Colonna's Shipyard before joining Diversified Technolo- gies. July, 1990 Morgan Crane Receives Order For Knucklebooms For Three Corvettes Since its recent product line ex- pansion and move to new facilities, Morgan Crane Company, Inc., San- ta Ana, Calif., has received several government and commercial or- ders. Among the orders received by Morgan Crane, which now offers articulating cranes from 1- to 75-ton capacities, are installations aboard SWATH oceanographic research vessels T-AGOS-2C), -21 and -22, and AGOR-23, the NOAA ships Delaware 2 and Oregon 2, and sev- eral commercial merchant vessels. 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