[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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                        TRIBUTE TO LARRY ARGIRO

  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Larry 
Argiro, a longtime Federal servant and creative leader in acoustics 
research and design for the U.S. Navy. Mr. Argiro recently retired 
after a remarkable 47 year career, and we in Maryland will truly miss 
his leadership and technical expertise at the Naval Surface Warfare 
Center, Carderock Division, Annapolis Detachment [NSWC].
  Larry Argiro began his career with the Navy in 1947 as a P-1 
electronics engineer and immediately became involved in noise reduction 
research. From the start, Mr. Argiro demonstrated a strong commitment 
to assisting the Navy in meeting the increasing need for acoustic 
technologies in the post-World War II era, a time when the submarine 
was fast becoming an integral part of our Nation's approach to naval 
warfare strategy. In the years since, Mr. Argiro has immersed himself 
in this growing demand for acoustic technology by devoting his 
enthusiasm, creativity, and an exceptional technological knowledge to 
enhancing Navy submarines, nuclear submarines and antisubmarine warfare 
ships.
  Mr. Argiro took over as head of the trials and analysis branch at 
Annapolis in 1963, where he and his staff of over 50 scientists and 
engineers conducted various research projects and developed innovations 
in acoustic signal processing and machinery noise technology. Three 
years later, Argiro was named director of the machinery silencing 
division at the Center where he spent 21 years managing 100 engineers 
in noise reduction research for nuclear submarines and antisubmarine 
warfare ships. Larry's colleagues and supervisors not only attest to 
his tremendous commitment, but also to the number of important 
breakthroughs in acoustics technology that emerged from the Annapolis 
laboratory during his tenure as director of the machinery silencing 
division.
  In 1986, Mr. Argiro assumed the leadership of the machinery research 
and development directorate in the Center's propulsion and auxiliary 
systems department. There, he not only maintained his pattern of 
outstanding progress in machinery dynamics and silencing, but he also 
became involved in several other important innovations and projects 
including the analysis and design of new power systems, ship automation 
control, shipboard energy availability and conservation, electrical 
integration, and electric and magnetic sensing.
  During Larry's tenure, the Machinery Research and Development 
Department at the Naval Surface Warfare Center has developed a 
substantial portion of the most advanced, environmentally sound, and 
affordable machinery for surface ship combatants and submarines in the 
world.
  I have had the chance to get to know Larry through working and 
visiting with him on several occasions at the Annapolis laboratory. I 
know firsthand of his commitment to preparing the Navy for the 21st 
century and I am pleased to have this opportunity to express my 
appreciation for his incredible depth of knowledge and gracious 
demeanor. His career is certainly one marked by achievement and I know 
his leadership will be missed.

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