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Right: USNS Able, one of five T-AGOS vessels managed by Crowley in support of the Navy's Surveillance Towed Array Sensor Systems (SURTASS) operations, the U.S. Air Force's dual-band, phased array and parabolic dish radars and other government missions. Story continued on page 12 "Through this move, Crowley combined all of its commercial service offerings, extensive experience, a reputation for working safely and honestly, and relationships into a focused unit with the added benefit of more targeted, and improved service for our government customers." In an effort to better serve government agencies, such as MSC and the Maritime Administration (MARAD), the group also opened an office in downtown Norfolk, Va. This new location is being used to better service Naval Station Norfolk along with several newly contracted, Crowley-managed ships located there. Just last year, the company was awarded technical management contracts for 18 MSC vessels, including seven T-AGOS/T-AGM vessels, six Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) vessels, and five Roll-On/Roll-Off container ships (ROCON). These are in addition to the various incumbent Ready Reserve Force (RRF) ships that the company has been managing and maintaining since 2000 in a high-readiness state, while operating with reduced crew sizes. One of the ships is moored and maintained for use as a training ship by U.S. Special Forces for counter-terrorism and other exercises. "The opening of Crowley's Norfolk office is clearly an indication of the company's commitment to providing the highest, most responsive service to our customers in the government sector," said Andy Rabuse, director, business development. "We are extremely proud of the work we do for MSC and MARAD and are now even more accessible to them." Crowley's work doesn't stop on the East Coast. The group is also providing technical management to U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Sea - one of the world's most powerful, conventionally propelled icebreakers - during the ship's layup. Though the vessel has been out of service since 2010, Crowley is handling any towing, dry docking, repair, deactivation and layup duties. The 38-year-old ship was designed to perform at-sea research, icebreaking in support of all USCG missions in polar regions. The group even assisted MSC with a fleet-wide automation project to update the aging, obsolete and unsupportable machinery control, alarm, and monitoring systems aboard the ships. Crowley provided project management and engineering services to assist MSC's project design team with implementing consistency in practices across the fleet as it related to implementation of automation, control and monitoring systems. Also in 2015, Crowley secured a new five-year contract, with an additional five-year option, in support of the Defense Logistics Agency Energy (DLA-E) - the entity responsible for providing the Department of Defense and other agencies with energy solutions. The contract resulted in nearly doubling Crowley's fuel storage and distribution capacity for DLA-E at its Anchorage tank farm, resulting in nearly one million total barrels of jet fuel storage capacity to support Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. 11 Connections Summer 2016 OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT CREWING SUPPORT SAFETY, SECURITY, QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROCUREMENT ACCOUNTING RISK MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL VESSEL MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT