Ball Aerospace Wins Warfighter Interface Research & Technology Operations Contract
February 07 2008 - 8:03AM
PR Newswire (US)
DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp. has been awarded a five-year $49M contract to
support the Warfighter Interface Division of the Air Force Research
Laboratory's (AFRL) Human Effectiveness Directorate. "We are
pleased to be fulfilling a contract that allows Ball Aerospace to
support the AFRL's critical mission to further human factors
research," said Jeff Osterkamp, vice president and general manager
for Ball Aerospace's National Defense Solutions business unit. The
Human Effectiveness Directorate is one of five AFRL directorates
headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Approximately 50 employees at the Ball Aerospace Dayton, Ohio
location will execute the contract, along with Ball's teammates:
Aptima, Bevilacqua Research Corporation, Booz Allen Hamilton, JXT
Applications, The Design Knowledge Company, and Wright State
University. AFRL is the Air Force's organization dedicated to
leading the discovery, development, and integration of warfighting
technologies for our nation's air, space, and cyberspace forces.
The Warfighter Interface Division's technology enables men and
women in uniform to understand the nature of the battlespace,
anticipate enemy intentions, make quick and effective decisions,
and synchronize air and ground forces across the battlespace. Ball
Aerospace will provide scientists, engineers, and warfighting
subject matter experts to support this critical research and
technology transition. "Ball's expertise for this contract will
help sustain the Warfighter Interface Division's mission to promote
'optimal decision making at all levels and identify better
equipment, procedures and techniques for the nation's warfighters,"
added Osterkamp. Core technology areas of the Warfighter Interface
Division include: supervisory control of unmanned aerial vehicles;
computational and knowledge-based representations of human,
organizational, cultural, and societal structures; virtual audio
displays; 3-D audio; human-centered decision support systems;
interfaces to support human-human and human-machine collaboration;
and advanced visualizations to enhance the human's ability to
assimilate and understand information. The Division has
collaborative relationships with academia, other military services
and government agencies, and commercial enterprises. 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. For more than 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 2007 sales of $7.4 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; changes in senior
management; 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
Corporation CONTACT: Roz Brown of Ball Corporation,
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