Welcome to all our readers of the NEJ. In this issue you will findsome excellent summaries of events, texts of speeches, and technicalpapers and presentations from our recent ASNE Day 2004 whichwas held in June. This year’s ASNE Day was a superb event and wewere delighted to have the largest attendance since 1998. Also wewere delighted to have quite a few companies participate asexhibitors who were new to the exhibit floor this year.

The timing of ASNE Day this year was fortuitous since the Navyhad recently announced the awards for the LCS detailed design andconstruction contracts and that allowed presentation of much moredetail of the programs than had been presented previously. We arevery grateful to RAdm. Hamilton and his program managers for thevery comprehensive support they provided in informative presenta-tions and panel discussions on the major U.S. Navy surface ship pro-grams. We also deeply appreciate the support of RAdm. Bush andother key leaders in the Navy open architecture effort for the superbcoverage they provided regarding this vital enabling technology forfuture Navy warfighting systems. The Navy at this time is involvedin many different ship design and modernization efforts and in thedevelopment of advanced technology for enhanced systems integra-tion. ASNE Day this year provided an excellent chance to learnmuch about the individual programs pursuing this work and to learnhow these complementary and technologically advanced designscome together to form the future surface combatant Navy.

Our ASNE awards program was another highlight of ASNE Day. Wewere delighted to recognize outstanding authors and dedicatedASNE members and leaders for 2003 during our awards luncheonand annual banquet, and to honor our annual section award winnersat our leadership dinner. This year was unique in that there was athree-way tie for best section of the year with equal honors going tothe Southern Indiana, Tidewater, and Flagship Sections. We wereextremely fortunate to have Adm. Mullen as the awards luncheonspeaker and he shared with the attendees his views on the vision ofNavy leadership as they look to the future, and he related it to thetechnical and programmatic challenges that face both the Navy andindustry. Our banquet speaker was Mr. Michael W. Toner, ExecutiveVice President and Group Executive, Marine Systems at GeneralDynamics who shared his thoughts on the naval engineering profes-sion from his view as a shipbuilder. I am certain that our readers willfind the ASNE Day 2004 materials in this NEJ very informative.

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■ RAdm. David P. Sargent, Jr., USN (Ret.)President@navalengineers.org

ASNE DAY 2004, New Officers

As we start the new ASNE fiscal year it ismy pleasure to welcome the newly electedofficers and national and regional Councilmembers to the society leadership team. Ms.Diane Burton has assumed her new role as avice president, while Capt. John Higbee USN(Ret), Capt. Ronald Rabago, USCG; Ms.Elizabeth Sandel; Capt. Amy , USN; Dr.Jennifer Kehl Waters; and Cdr. Gary Ayers,USNR joined the Council as newly electedmembers. We are also most appreciative ofthose individuals who are continuing theirservice as Council members and to thosewho recently completed their elected term.

Fiscal Year 2005 has many exciting and rel-evant ASNE symposia and workshops onthe calendar. I encourage each reader toreview the upcoming events shown in thisNEJ and plan to join us as often as possibleas both you and the Society will benefitfrom participation.

Dave Sargent, RADM USN (Ret.)

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ASNE PROCEEDINGSASNE PROCEEDINGSASNE Symposium Proceedings Available for Purchase at New Low Prices

Engineering the Total Ship 2004(unclassified papers only) (ASNE,

Gaithersburg, Maryland) (March 17-18)12 papers; $25.00Electric Machines TechnologySymposium 2004 (ASNE, Philadelphia,PA) (January 27-29) 55 papers; $25.00Fleet Maintenance Symposium 2003(ASNE, Virginia Beach, VA) (November18-19); 35 papers; $25.00Maritime Environmental Symposium2003 (ASNE/SNAME, Arlington, VA)(August 21-22); 32 papers; $25.00

Human Systems Integration Symposium2003 (ASNE, Vienna, VA) (June 23-25,2003) 46 papers; $25.00

Intelligent Ships Symposium V (ASNE,Philadelphia, PA) (May 12-14, 2003)32 papers; $25.00

ASNE Day 2003 (ASNE, Arlington, VA)(March 24-25, 2003) 25 papers; $25.00

ASNE Day 2002 (ASNE, Arlington, VA)(April 29-30, 2002) 18 papers; $25.00

Human Systems Integration Symposium2001 (ASNE, Arlington, VA) (November 5-6, 2001) 21 papers; $25.00

Fleet Maintenance Symposium 2001(ASNE San Diego Section, San Diego,CA) (August 28-30, 2001) 32 papers;$25.00

Maritime Environmental Symposium(ASNE/SNAME, Arlington, VA) (May 30-June 1, 2001) 37 papers, $25.00

ASNE Day 2001 (ASNE, Arlington, VA)(April 30-May 2, 2001) 19 papers, $20.00

Intelligent Ships Symposium IV (ASNE,Philadelphia, PA) (April 2-3, 2001) 34papers, $25.00

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