Harris Corporation Awarded $4.4 Million Contract by Boeing for EA-18G Digital Memory Device Mission Planning Interface
October 27 2005 - 9:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
MELBOURNE, Fla., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS), a world leader in advanced avionics for
military aircraft, today announced that it was awarded a $4.4
million development contract by The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) to
supply the Digital Memory Device (DMD) Mission Planning Interface
(MPI) for the U.S. Navy's EA-18G aircraft. The EA-18G, a variant of
the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, is slated to become the Navy's
pre-eminent electronic warfare plane. Boeing previously awarded
Harris an $11 million contract in 2004 for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G
DMD. "The DMD and associated MPI are critical system components
necessary to support the surveillance missions of the F/A-18," said
Dan Pearson, president of the Department of Defense (DoD) business
unit of Harris Corporation's Government Communications Systems
Division (GCSD). "This contract reinforces our position as a
premier developer of advanced avionics technology for the F/A-18
platform and many other fixed- and rotor-winged tactical aircraft
for the DoD." The DMD is a lightweight, low-power, high-performance
unit that interfaces to the aircraft's mission computer via the
fiber-optic High-Speed Data Network (HSDN). It has a two-slot
PCMCIA memory card data loader with embedded encryption/decryption
capability. The MPI enables the ground-based mission planning
system to write or read encrypted data to or retrieved from the
PCMCIA memory cards for use during flight. Harris GCSD 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 is an international communications and
information technology company serving government and commercial
markets in more than 150 countries. With headquarters in Melbourne,
Florida, the company has annual sales of over $3 billion and has
12,600 employees, including 5,500 engineers and scientists. The
company's four operating divisions serve markets for government
communications, RF communications, broadcast communications, and
microwave communications. Additional information about Harris
Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/. Sound
interesting? Find great jobs at Harris:
http://www.careers.harris.com/ DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation
CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer, Harris Government Communications Systems
Division, +1-321-727-6514, , or Brent Dietz, Corporate
Headquarters, +1-321-724-3554, , both of Harris Corporation Web
site: http://www.harris.com/
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