Ball Aerospace forms DoD Protege Pact with Woman-Owned Small Business for GDPAA Antenna Support
December 21 2007 - 8:07AM
PR Newswire (US)
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. has entered a Department of Defense (DoD)
Mentor-Protege Agreement with Princeton Microwave Technology Inc.
(PmT) of Princeton, New Jersey, and will assist the company as it
becomes a supplier of Transmit/Receive Modules for Ball's contract
supporting the Geodesic Dome Phased Array Antenna-Advanced
Technology Demonstration (GDPAA-ATD). Since 1991, the DoD
Mentor-Protege Program has offered substantial assistance to
socio-economic subsets of small businesses. PmT, is a small,
woman-owned business. As an approved DoD Mentor, Ball Aerospace
will provide services to PmT through the U.S. Air Force Outreach
Program Office, specifically for manufacturing and production
technology. The DoD program assists small businesses to
successfully compete for prime contract and subcontract awards by
partnering with large companies under individual, project-based
agreements. "Ball Aerospace has a proven history of using the
techniques, products and services of small businesses to provide
innovative products," said Rich Auerbach, director of Ball's
antenna and video technologies group. "We look forward to helping
PmT meet certification requirements that precipitate successful
delivery of communications module components to Ball Aerospace."
PmT manufactures oscillators and amplifiers for the military and
telecommunications markets. The Mentor-Protege pact will allow Ball
Aerospace to assist PmT maximize its in-house production
capabilities and effectively manage external fabrication
activities. The GDPAA-ATD is part of a multi-phase activity to
upgrade the Air Force Satellite Control Network by replacing large
parabolic dish antennas with advanced phased array antennas. This
development is designed to greatly improve satellite communication
links for the Air Force's network. In January, 2007, Ball Aerospace
began work on a $13 million ATD contract to develop and demonstrate
technologies required to validate the GDPAA concept. Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corp. supports critical missions of important
national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and
other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops
and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors,
components, 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 products 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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