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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (10227)	7/5/2002 11:27:33 AM
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Helping Build America's Backbone SGI® High-Performance Computing and Visualization Technology The backbone of U.S. defense is the aircraft carrier and its battle group. It is the largest warship in the world, runs on nuclear power, and is the world largest assembled product, with over one billion parts. Construction of an aircraft carrier, from design to delivery, takes 12 years, the latter five just to build it. Its life cycle is 50 years--two 25-year tours of duty--with a three-year break for refueling and complex overhaul. Newport News Northrop Grumman Newport News, a sector of Northrop Grumman located in Newport News, Virginia, is the only company that designs, builds, refuels, and overhauls nuclear aircraft carriers, and it is one of only two to do the same for nuclear submarines. When a carrier's life cycle is complete, Newport News handles the decommissioning and disposal. SGI workstations, high-performance computing systems, and advanced visualization technology play an important role in helping Newport News build a better, stronger backbone for the U.S. Navy... ... Today, Newport News employs more than 4,000 design and construction engineers, each integrally involved in the design, testing, and construction of aircraft carriers for the Navy. Their job is to develop, evaluate, and insert new technologies that reduce the total cost of ownership while enhancing the capability, flexibility, survivability, and combat effectiveness of the ship. The merging of Northrop Grumman, a defense electronics powerhouse in its own right, with Newport News, created an organization ideally suited to serve as the Navy's one-stop shop for nuclear aircraft carriers. The company's ability to provide concept-to-completion shipbuilding provides a twofold benefit to the Navy-lower acquisition costs and lower total cost of ownership throughout the life cycle of the aircraft carrier. SGI workstations and high-performance computing systems have long been instrumental in helping Newport News reduce the total cost of ownership for Navy ships, specifically in areas of 3D solids modeling, finite element analysis (FEA), and the management of complex data... sgi.com