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YACHT BOUTIQUE / JOHN F. RODRIGUES
SELECTED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN
AS MARINE CONSULTANTS FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF NEXT GENERATION
ULTRA HIGH SPEED STEALTH  SHIPS

    Aerospace leader Lockheed Martin, who has recently been awarded a 200 Billion Dollar contract by the US Government for the production of a new stealth supersonic military fighter capable of vertical take-offs and landings and, who in the past has designed and built some of the most advanced military ships such as the stealth ship Sea Shadow, has selected and hired Mr. John F. Rodrigues and his Florida based company Yacht Boutique, as consultants in Advanced Marine Technologies for the next Generation High Speed Ships for assistance in the development of a next generation 100 knot-plus stealth military ship for the US Navy.

    Mr. Rodrigues, who pioneered the integration and transfer of the world's most advanced military, aerospace and commercial technologies into the Yacht Industry through his innovative Yacht Boutique project, was honored to see his hard work recognized by Lockheed Martin, as it symbolizes the highest  award a person and/or a company can possible achieve in the Marine Industry.

    Lockheed Martin counts with Mr. John F. Rodrigues creative mind, expertise and his companies' abundant marine innovative technologies and resources, such as a Team of over five hundred of the world's most renowned naval architects, marine scientists, engineers, designers and test laboratories who have built to the world's leading navies everything from nuclear submarines to wing in ground effect ships capable of 250 + knots. Lockheed Martin is most interested in joint exploring  proprietary advanced high speed and high seakeeping hulls, aerospace derived motion control systems, high efficiency propulsion systems and machinery, such as the exclusive lightweight Aluminum 42 and 56 cylinder Radial Diesel engines and compact gas turbines with integrated gear boxes custom built for John F. Rodrigues. Other shipbuilding technologies that can see potential use in the Next Generation Ultra-Fast Ships are the use of lightweight styreneless non-flammable composites, titanium structures and special aluminum magnesium alloys which are also in the agenda of the consultancy.

For more information please contact: Yacht Boutique @ + 1 (904) 687-2175.