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70 -- PORTS AND WATERWAYS SAFETY SYSTEM DUE 121996 POC Point of Contact -- Contracting Officer: Catherine Martindale (202) 267-2507 VTS TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT: All prospective VTS Technical Symposium Speakers. The U.S. Coast Guard is hereby announcing the intent to host a Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) Technical Symposium. The Symposium is in support of the Ports and Waterways Safety Systems (PAWSS), the goal of which will be to improve waterway safety, and to support the expressed needs of the ports users, local communities, and other stakeholders. Further information on PAWSS is detailed in the CBD announcement entitled "The Coast Guard Establishes A New Project Ports and Waterways Safety System." Companies having existing off- the-shelf open architecture VTS systems are invited to speak at the Symposium to be held in the Washington, DC area on 12 February 1997. The Symposium will be a presentation-based open forum to provide the government with an understanding of VTS system technologies available to meet near-term port and waterways safety requirements. The Symposium will serve as a market survey to determinecommercial VTS system availability and may be followed by on-site visits to view the systems described during the Symposium. Briefings should be no more than 25 minutes in length. The following information should be presented: 1. Brief description of VTS system's functions; 2 Discussion of the system's use of Off the Shelf products; 3. Discussion of the system's open architecture; 4. Discussion of where system(s) is installed. Prospective speakers should respond with a letter expressing interest by 19 December 1996 to allow the Coast Guard to finalize the Symposium program agenda. We also encourage all other interested parties who wish to attend to notify the Coast Guard by 19 December 1996. Invited speakers will be notified by 10 January 1997. Should you have any questions about the symposium, call or fax them to Mr. Robert Perris at (202)-267-2220. Email RPerris@comdt.uscg.mil or Mr. Gene Lockhart at (202) 267-2813. Email ELockhart@comdt.uscg.mil. Fax number is (202) 267-4018. (0341)

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