Harris Corporation Awarded Innovative Space-Based Radar Antenna Technology (ISAT) Payload Contract By Lockheed Martin
June 16 2005 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Harris Corporation Awarded Innovative Space-Based Radar Antenna
Technology (ISAT) Payload Contract By Lockheed Martin MELBOURNE,
Fla., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation
(NYSE:HRS), the world leader in spaceborne, unfurlable antennas and
large precision structures, today announced that it has been
awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin to continue the development
of the Flight Demonstration System (FDS) radar payload for the
Innovative Space-Based Radar Antenna Technology (ISAT) program. The
ISAT program, under the direction of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) Special Projects Office and the U.S. Air
Force Research Lab's (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, includes
the development of technologies required to deploy extremely large
antennas in space for tactical sensing of moving targets on the
ground. Harris is responsible for the design of the radar sensor
payload, which will provide Moving Target Indicator (MTI)
surveillance of areas previously obscured from view by airborne
assets. "We are pleased to have been selected to continue our
support of this critical antenna technology initiative, and to be
given the opportunity to mature the innovative technologies we
previously developed for the ISAT payload," said Russ Haney,
president of the National Programs business unit of Harris
Corporation's Government Communications Systems Division (GCSD).
"Performing complex MTI radar missions from space poses many
technology challenges. With its collective years of innovation and
leadership in this arena, however, the Lockheed Martin/Harris team
is certainly up to the challenge." Harris successfully completed
three prior contracts for earlier phases of the ISAT program. Under
this phase of the program, Harris will complete the critical design
of a scaled demonstration unit of the large, phased-array radar
sensor that will be used to validate the technology and structural
design concept for the full-size objective system. At nearly the
height of the Empire State Building, the 300-meter objective system
structure must be capable of being compressed to the size of an SUV
for launch. This phase will take the payload design for the FDS
radar payload through a tailored Critical Design Review (CDR). The
ISAT FDS is planned to launch in 2010. Harris GCSD, one of four
divisions within Harris Corporation, conducts advanced research
studies, develops prototypes, and produces and supports
state-of-the-art, assured communications(TM) solutions and
information systems that solve the mission-critical challenges of
its military and government customers, while serving as the
technology base for the company's diverse commercial businesses.
Harris Corporation, which also provides tactical radio, microwave,
and broadcast products and systems, serves customers in more than
150 countries. For more information, visit http://www.harris.com/ .
Sound interesting? Find great jobs at Harris:
http://www.careers.harris.com/ DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation
CONTACT: Tom Hausman, Corporate Headquarters, +1-321-727-9131, or ,
or Sleighton Meyer, Government Communications Systems Division,
+1-321-727-6514, or , both of Harris Corporation Web site:
http://www.harris.com/ http://www.careers.harris.com/
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