Boeing Awards Harris Corporation $2.8 Million Development Contract for NOAA's GOES-R Satellite Ground Segment
November 07 2005 - 9:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
MELBOURNE, Fla., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS) announced today that it has been awarded a
six-month, $2.8 million Program Definition and Risk Reduction
(PDRR) contract by The Boeing Company for the ground processing
segment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
(NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - Series R
(GOES-R) program. When ready for launch in 2012, GOES-R will
feature highly advanced sensor technology and will provide much
higher resolution and data frequency than the current GOES
spacecraft family. Value of the GOES-R PDRR work for Harris could
reach $8 million by 2007 if NOAA exercises all its options for this
phase of the contract. Under the GOES-R contract with Boeing,
Harris is responsible for the design and development of the GOES-R
Ground Segment. This includes developing a data processing and
command-and-control ground prototype for the overall satellite
system architecture. The PDRR phase will end with a "fly-off"
competition in 2007, with NOAA selecting a single team for
development and production of the GOES-R end-to-end system. "We are
extremely pleased to have this opportunity to work with Boeing to
develop a ground processing system that will best support the next
generation of geostationary weather satellites for NOAA," said Al
Dukes, president of the Civil Programs business unit of Harris
Corporation's Government Communications Systems Division (GCSD).
"GOES-R represents a quantum leap in the quantity, timeliness and
accuracy of remotely sensed meteorological data. We look forward to
fielding a winning prototype solution for the Boeing team." GOES-R
will carry several operational instruments including the 16-channel
Advanced Baseline Imager, which will provide visual and infrared
imagery of the Western Hemisphere every five minutes; a
Hyper-spectral Environmental Suite, which will provide full disk
atmospheric soundings to assist in severe weather forecasting; an
extended Solar X-Ray Imager; and a Space Environment Monitoring
Suite, which will monitor the effects of solar activity on the
Earth's atmosphere. This suite of instruments will produce over 100
times the information provided by the current system and will offer
a wide variety of unique observations of the environment, with
particular emphasis on severe weather and hurricane activity in the
Western Hemisphere. Harris ground data processing systems consist
of complex suites of hardware and software that receive sensor data
from satellites and process it into useable environmental
parameters under stringent timelines, turning the data into useable
information. The company's command and control systems feature
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) design and high levels of
flexibility. Designed for government and commercial applications,
they support single- satellite missions as well as the largest and
most complex satellite fleets deployed today. 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/ Forward-Looking Statement This press
release contains forward-looking statements that reflect
management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates of
future performance and economic conditions. Such statements are
made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of
the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. The company cautions investors that any
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that may cause actual results and future trends to differ
materially from those matters expressed in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Statements about the expected value of
the program to Harris are forward-looking and involve risks and
uncertainties. Other factors that may impact the company's results
and forward-looking statement may be disclosed in the company's
filings with the SEC. Harris disclaims any intention or obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events, or otherwise. DATASOURCE:
Harris Corporation CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer , Harris Corporation,
Government Communications Systems Division, +1-321-727-6514, , or
Brent Dietz Corporate Headquarters, +1-321-724-3554, Web site:
http://www.harris.com/
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