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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hand who wrote (2453)	2/2/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: robert a belfer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21143

Found this in the January 26 edition of Navy Times. "By reshuffling funding in its future budget plans, Navy officials now intend to upgrade 22 Ticonderoga class cruisers with a host of improvements designed to significantly boost the ship's combat capabilitys will into the next century, according to service documents. Called the Cruiser Conversion Program the esimated $2.2 billion modernization effort will recieve initial funding ton the services 2001 budget......snip Same edition, different article: "The Navy plans to make two more cruisers "smart" this year, stocking them with new ideas and technology pionered aboard the cruiser Yorktown, the original "smart ship". Next year the Navy hopers to persuade Congrexss to pay for the conversion of four more cruisers, said Rear Adn. James F. Amerault, who directs the fisical management division of the Navy's budget office".....snip ..."we have the money in the [program] budgets to put smart-ship packages in all surface combatants besides DD's and FFG's........snip ....."The Smart Ship prigram put Yorktown to sea with $8 million in new computers and communications equipment- and nearly 13 percent fewer crew members..snip I cant wait till they can teach a computer to polish brass and clean a camode :-) Seriously, I dont know if these programs have any direct relationship to CCUR. anyone??????????

To: Don Hand who wrote (2453)	2/2/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Christiaan McDonald	Respond to of 21143

Don, we will be on conference call and if we get a chance we will ask questions. Usually others already ask the questions by the time they get to us. I am very interested in the potential of some of the real time business, I am sure VOD will be discussed at length. I am not one who expects a VOD announcement. I never get a positive surprise when I expect one, they always come out of the blue. Maybe the luck of some others will over ride mine this time and we will get some good news. Ken