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Navy President's 2003 budget is still well below what is necessary to restore American Sea Power capability, it is an important and essential first step in a long and essential investment process. In closing, I ask all of your readers to consider where the Nation would have been on September 11 if not for naval ships? In response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S., an aircraft carrier battle group, consisting of an aircraft carrier and numerous destroyers, submarines, cruis- ers and logistic supply ships, was imme- diately deployed to the east and west coasts to defend America from addition- al attacks via the air and sea. Homeland defense begins with ships. The U.S. would not have been able to retaliate against the attack of 9/11 in land-locked Afghanistan without ships, because no foreign government in the region granted the United States land base rights from which to launch offen- sive strikes. The nearest land base from which the U.S. could operate was 3,000 miles away in Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean. The first phase of the war was waged from more than 60 ships. Long-range missiles were fired Rolls-Royce Appoints New President for Navy Biz Rolls-Royce appointed Patrick Marolda as president of Rolls-Royce Naval Marine Inc. Marolda will develop and implement the North American busi- ness strategy for the Rolls-Royce Naval Marine business. Based at the Rolls- Royce Naval Marine headquarters in Walpole, Mass., with an additional office in Chantilly, Va., corporate headquarters for Rolls-Royce North America, Marol- da will report to James M. Guyette, pres- ident and CEO. Rolls-Royce North America as part of the North American management structure. Marolda will receive business direction from David Price, managing director. Rolls-Royce Naval Marine. Digital System Wins Systems Support Contract Digital System Resources, Inc., Fair- fax, Va., was being awarded a $53 mil- lion cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus- award-fee contract modification to exer- cise an option under contract for level- of-effort engineering and technical ser- vices, for the design and development of upgrades and systems support of the Multi-Purpose Processor (MPP). The MPP provides hardware and software processing for the towed array on sub- marine and surface ship platforms. Work will be performed in Fairfax, Va., and is expected to be completed by March 2003. Circle 22 on Reader Service Card www.maritimereporterinfo.com on Afghan targets from submarines and surface ships. In less than a four-month period, more than 4.000 aircraft sorties were flown off the decks of three aircraft carriers. A fourth aircraft carrier along with submarines and amphibious ships were used to deploy Marines and Spe- cial Operations Forces of all services
