Ball Aerospace to Open Conference Center in Cummings Research Park
December 07 2007 - 9:07AM
PR Newswire (US)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. will open its new Ball Conference Center
(BCC) in conjunction with Huntsville's celebration of the 50th
anniversary of spaceflight next month which culminates with the
grand opening of the Davidson Center for Space Exploration on
January 31, 2008. The conference center, at 4815 Bradford Drive, is
part of Ball's Bradford facility in the Cummings Research Park. The
BCC will offer convenient access for local government
representatives to the subcontractor community. Ball will also use
the location to train and familiarize customers and partners with
Ball's successful, innovation-based culture and business
approaches. The facility's audio-visual and communication
capabilities will facilitate training and provide ample space for
support activities. Ball Aerospace secured office space in
Huntsville earlier this year as the company pursued the contract to
provide integration and production support to NASA's Ares I
Instrument Unit Avionics (IUA). Ball Aerospace expects to have a
team of approximately 65 employees in the Huntsville area by the
end of the first quarter in 2008, following the successful
selection for the contract by NASA. Vice President for Exploration
Systems, Bill Townsend, is leading Ball's overall efforts in
Huntsville, with the Ares IUA program to be managed by Robert Seto.
Ball Aerospace added teammates Hamilton Sundstrand and Pratt
Whitney Rocketdyne to pursue the IUA contract. In addition to
identifying Huntsville facilities from which to execute the
contract, Team Ball has made major investments to successfully meet
the requirements of the IUA contract. These investments will enable
Team Ball to commence performance immediately upon contract award.
"We are ready on day one of the contract to offer the team's best
performance in helping NASA achieve its ambitious exploration
goals," said Townsend. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.,
headquartered in Boulder, Colo., provides critical mission support
to the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government
organizations and commercial entities. The company develops and
manufactures space systems, including spacecraft, advanced
instruments and sensors, components; and offers data exploitation
systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific
applications. Over the past 50 years, Ball Aerospace has been
responsible for numerous technological and scientific "firsts" and
acts as a technology innovator for the aerospace market. Ball
Corporation (NYSE:BLL) is a supplier of high-quality metal and
plastic packaging products for beverage, food and household
customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services,
primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its
subsidiaries employ more than 15,500 people worldwide and reported
2006 sales of $6.6 billion. 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 product 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; crop yields; competitive activity; failure to
achieve anticipated productivity improvements or production cost
reductions, including our beverage can end project; mandatory
deposit or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in major
customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major customer or
supplier; and changes in foreign exchange rates, tax rates and
activities of foreign subsidiaries. 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; successful or unsuccessful
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.,
+1-303-533-6059, Web site: http://www.ballaerospace.com/
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