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contracts Textron Marine & Land Systems, Slidell, Louisiana, $213 million contract for the detailed design and construction of an initial ship-to-shore connector test and training craft, which will replace the Landing Craft, Air Cushion. Work is to be completed by February 2017. The contract includes options for up to eight production craft to be delivered by 2020. U.S. Navy. Teledyne Benthos, North Falmouth, Massachusetts, five-year, $6 million contract for indefinite quantity and de- livery of products, including acoustic re- leases, deck boxes, undersea telemetry and positioning systems, and acoustic Doppler current profilers. U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office. Murmansk Shipping Co., Murmansk, Russia, contract option for chartering the diesel icebreaker Vladimir Ignatyuk to create a channel through the sea ice of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound to en- able resupplying and refueling of U.S. research stations in 2012 and 2013. The vessel completed its first break-in and escort February 2012. The National Sci- ence Foundation. MAR Inc., Rockville, Maryland, five- year contract for the maintenance and operation of Ohmsett, an oil spill re- sponse research and testing facility in Leonardo, New Jersey. MAR will facili- tate research and testing projects and training programs, in addition to con- ducting facility repairs and upgrades. The Bureau of Safety and Environ mental Enforcement. ORBCOMM Inc., Fort Lee, New Jer sey, multiyear framework contract through partner LuxSpace Sàrl to provide satel- lite AIS data for ship tracking and other maritime navigational and safety efforts for designated regions and projects. Eu- ropean Maritime Safety Agency. Rolls-Royce plc, London, England, $3 million award to develop technologies to support unmanned naval vehicle mis- sions, including automated systems for mine countermeasures, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare, coastal security patrols and environmental data collec- tion, and the design of refueling systems and remote-handling equipment for un- www.sea-technology.com AUGUST 2012 / st 71 derwater sensors. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. FMC Technologies, Houston, Texas, 1.2- billion-krone contract for subsea pro- duction systems for the Gullfaks South field, contingent on an investment deci- sion expected at the end of this summer. Statoil. Applied Acoustic Engineering Ltd., Great Yarmouth, England, contract to supply Easytrak ultrashort baseline sys- tems for the U.S. Navy's Seafox mine disposal ROVs. Atlas North America. Transas Marine China, Shanghai, China, contract to supply four bridges for newbuild UT755 platform supply vessels, with seven multifunctional dis- play workstations and equipment in- cluding X-Band Navi-Chart Radar, S-Band Navi-Chart Radar, Navi-Sailor Dual ECDIS and Navi-Conning. Pax - Ocean Engineering Pte Ltd. Bowtech Products Ltd., Aberdeen, Scotland, contract to supply, in partner- ship with N-Seatec Subsea Systems B.V., Bowtech Surveyor high-definition cam- eras, associated connectors and various interconnection cables to replace the high-definition cameras in a fleet of Schilling Robotics LLC UHD ROVs. Allseas UK Ltd. Cargotec, Helsinki, Finland, contract for 16 electrically driven bulk versions of variable frequency drive cranes for a new series of four Bdelta37 bulk carri- ers. Each vessel will be equipped with four GLBE 3026-2 MacGregor cranes. The China Navi gation Co. Ltd. Silver Ships Inc., Theodore, Alabama, contract to construct two oil spill service boats. Equipment includes an Elastec hydraulically-controlled powered boom reel, an Elaspray portable dispersant sys- tem, a 200-gallon dispersant tank and an Elastec TDS118 Skimmer System. Saudi Aramco. Teledyne RD Instruments, Poway, Cali- fornia, contract to provide up to 86 acoustic Doppler current profiler instru- ments for the Ocean Obser vatories Ini- tiative. Delivery for the first order was scheduled for August. National Science Foundation.