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Naval Engineering and American SeaPower by the American Society ofNaval Engineers is a comprehen-sive addition to the literature onmaritime history. Nineteen distin-guished contributors share theirexpertise on more than a centuryof monumental change in maritimetechnology. In this book, the evo-lution of American ship designand construction, as well as navalresearch and development, istraced from wood to steel, fromsail to nuclear power, from cannonto missiles, with a focus on theprofessional engineers who makeit possible.

Established in 1888, ASNE is theprofessional society founded bythe men who revolutionized ship-building concepts in the 19thCentury. In 1988, the Society cele-brated its centennial, which wasthe impetus for the first edition ofthis book. This second edition,published for ASNE’s 110th

anniversary, updates the story. The second edition of NavalEngineering and American Sea Power,edited by Rear Admiral Millard S.Firebaugh, USN (Ret.) contains:

� Revised, updated chapters -many by the original authors.

� A new chapter, written by Dr.Gary Weir, Head,Contemporary History Branch,U.S. Naval Historical Center,covers developments andevents over the past ten years.

� New chapter, written by RearAdmiral Millard S. Firebaugh,USN (Ret.), focuses on theproducts, processes, and peo-ple that encompass navalengineering.

� New section on ASNE awardsand award winners — thepeople who have made out-standing contributions to thefield of naval engineering.

� New photographs illustrate thewide range of technologicaldevelopments since 1988.

� Revised, updated Chronologyof Naval Engineering tracessignificant events in navalengineering history.

� Improved Glossary includesupdated list of ship types andChart of ElectronicEquipment indicators.

� Extensive Naval EngineeringBibliography and informationsource lists are helpful for fur-ther study.

� Improved index is easy to use.

Naval Engineeringand American Sea Power

SECOND EDITION

Welcome to all continuing and new readers of NEJ. ASNE continuesto plan and conduct excellent symposia and workshops around thecountry on some relevant and exciting technical subjects. Since ourlast NEJ, the Tidewater Section conducted a Fleet MaintenanceSymposium in November and the content was superb. Attendance atthe event set some new records, and the large number of variedexhibitors provided a great opportunity for both our governmentand industry attendees to learn of new and improved technologiesand products that are available. In December, the Combat SystemsCommittee conducted a very informative Combat SystemsSymposium at the Johns Hopkins APL Kossiakoff center. RADMTom Bush, PEO Integrated Warfare and his various programs playeda key role in the presentations, and keynote speeches and panel dis-cussions provided an excellent overview and understanding of howthe Navy’s wide array of weapons, sensor, and communications pro-grams fit together to form the architecture and capabilities that arenecessary to achieve the CNO goals described in Sea Power 21. As Iwrite this letter we are about to conduct the Electric MachinesTechnology Symposium in Philadelphia in late January. This sympo-sium deals with the technologies and challenges involved with evolv-ing our Navy and other services to all electric ships.

For those readers who have not recently attended one of the ASNEsymposia I strongly urge you to review the list of upcoming eventsand get them on you calendar. There is no better way to learn thecurrent state of knowledge on what is happening in naval engineer-ing and to also get brought up to date on the plans and programsbehind these efforts in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Thecommittees that organize and conduct these symposia are comprisedof individuals who are involved on a daily basis with our rapidlychanging technologies that are being developed for new ship con-cepts such as DDX, LCS, and Coast Guard Deepwater.

As we look ahead, I want to also remind readers that our annualASNE Day for 2004 will be held on June 28-30 this year, a bit laterthan most years, but at a time that will coincide nicely with severalmajor Navy decisions and events. The Navy is expected to announcethe winners of the LCS detailed design and construction contract inlate May, and we anticipate having several keynote speakers andpanels at ASNE Day to provide details from both government andindustry perspectives on that aggressive and demanding new ship

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� RAdm. David P. Sargent, Jr., USN (Ret.)

President@navalengineers.org

Winter Symposia, ASNE Day 2004,

and Sea Basing

concept. We hope that each of you can joinus for all or part of ASNE Day 2004.

There is another capability concept includedin Sea Power 21 in which naval engineeringis being asked to “think out of the box,”namely “sea basing.” Sea basing is notintended to require a large platform like themobile offshore bases (MOB) concept of adecade ago, but rather is the ability to oper-ate a flexible Joint force from the freedomof international waters by using a variety ofships, airframes, and supporting craft totransport needed troops, equipment, andsupplies to the area of operations and main-tain great flexibility of operations from thesea. Rather than marshalling vast amountsof equipment and logistics ashore, the con-cept involves continuous and rapid resupplyfrom the sea base to the shore. Designingsystems that can implement this conceptmay be the most challenging engineeringfeat that our community has faced in manydecades. It certainly involves innovative shipdesign, but more than that, we must con-ceive and design methods to move large andheavy loads rapidly from large ships tosmaller fast transport that can get into less-

er-developed ports. Additionally, the entiresystem must include integration of ships,transport craft, fixed and rotary aircraft,and the communications and managementlinkage to operate the joint force. We atASNE see this sea basing concept as a majornaval engineering area in which we can con-duct very useful programs to assist briningthis to fruition. I invite our readers to sub-mit ideas for programs, to write papers forNEJ, and to attend upcoming programs onsea basing and other interesting naval engi-neering programs.

Thank you for your continued support ofASNE and NEJ, and I look forward to meet-ing many of you at upcoming symposia.

Dave SargentRAdm. USN (Ret.)

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