Navigation Information Center (NIC)

AN/BRN-3 satellite navigation receiver with
CP-677 computer
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NIC SINS

Sperry MK3 MOD3 SINS binnacle
SINS = Ship's Inertial Navidation System

NIC NAVDAC

NIC taken apart during yard period at Sasebo
Sid Mitman from Naval Applied Science Lab (NASL)
OcUnit 3 CO, LCDR John Hammer, looks on

NIC

Tom Scally (Sperry Tech Rep) on the left
and George Glatzel from NASL is seated on the right

NIC

John Handal from Bunker Ramo, later NASL,
contemplating manufacturer's PMs

NIC

Reading the entrails of the Sperry Mk3 Mod3 SINS,
Ron Smolinski, the Sperry SINS rep

NIC

Larry Schaff, Sperry SINS Tech Rep

NIC

IC1 Stu Miller threathens the MK19 gyrocompass
with a screwdriver

NIC

The deactivated NAVDAC
(Navigation Data Assimilation Computer)
was replaced by a Bunker-Ramo CP677

NIC

Grover O. Bucklew of NAVOCEANO
Pipe smoke used to be good for electronics!

SASS SONAR

In Sonar, one deck below NIC, Chet Headley, GI
(General Instruments) rep, on the left
Vince Muldari, GI, seated

SASS SONAR

Ray Shunk, GI, standing
At right is part of the SASS control console
SASS = Sonar Array Sounding System