Ball Aerospace Selected for NASA's MSES/II/A Team
December 12 2006 - 11:24AM
PR Newswire (US)
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. has been selected as part of a
multi-contractor team for a five-year contract to provide
engineering services to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The
Mechanical Systems Engineering Services II/A (MSES II/A) contract
was awarded to the Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc. team,
of which Ball Aerospace is a member. The MSES II/A task order
contract provides engineering services and related services to the
Mechanical Systems Division and related organizations throughout
NASA/GSFC, as required, for the formulation, design, development,
fabrication, integration, testing, verification, and operations of
space flight and ground system hardware and software. The team will
also develop and validate new technologies to enable future space
and science missions. "MSES II/A is a strategic win for Ball
Aerospace," said David L. Taylor, the company's president and chief
executive officer. "It expands our already strong position as a
provider of engineering and support services to the civil space
market and affords us the opportunity to be an even larger
contributor to Goddard Space Flight Center, a customer we've served
for more than 40 years." The Ball Aerospace portion of the MSES
II/A contract will require staffing of approximately 65 personnel.
Ball Aerospace is celebrating its 50th year in business in 2006.
The company began building pointing controls for military rockets
in 1956, and later won a contract to build one of NASA's first
spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory. Over the years, Ball
Aerospace has been responsible for numerous technological and
scientific 'firsts' and now acts as a technology innovator for
important national missions. Ball Corporation (NYSE:BLL) is a
supplier of high-quality metal and plastic packaging products and
owns Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ball reported 2005
sales of $5.8 billion and employs 15,600 people. Forward-Looking
Statements This release contains "forward-looking" statements
concerning future events and financial performance. Words such as
"expects," "anticipates," "estimates" and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements
are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. The
company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise. Key risks and uncertainties are
summarized in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including Exhibit 99.2 in our Form 10-K, which are available at our
Web site and at http://www.sec.gov/. Factors that might affect our
packaging segments include fluctuation in consumer and customer
demand and preferences; availability and cost of raw materials,
including recent significant increases in resin, steel, aluminum
and energy costs, and the ability to pass such increases on to
customers; competitive packaging availability, pricing and
substitution; changes in climate and weather; fruit, vegetable and
fishing yields; industry productive capacity and competitive
activity; failure to achieve anticipated productivity improvements
or production cost reductions, including those associated with our
beverage can end project; the German mandatory deposit or other
restrictive packaging laws; changes in major customer or supplier
contracts or loss of a major customer or supplier; changes in
foreign exchange rates, tax rates and activities of foreign
subsidiaries; the effect of LIFO accounting; and any changes to
such accounting. Factors that might affect our aerospace segment
include: funding, authorization, availability and returns of
government and commercial contracts; and delays, extensions and
technical uncertainties affecting segment contracts. Factors that
might affect the company as a whole include those listed plus:
accounting changes; acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures;
integration of recently acquired businesses; regulatory action or
laws including tax, environmental and workplace safety;
governmental investigations; technological developments and
innovations; goodwill impairment; antitrust, patent and other
litigation; strikes; labor cost changes; rates of return projected
and earned on assets of the company's defined benefit retirement
plans; pension changes; reduced cash flow; interest rates affecting
our debt; and changes to unaudited results due to statutory audits
or other effects. DATASOURCE: Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp. CONTACT: Roz Brown of Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Corp., +1-303-939-6146, +1-303-533-6059,
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