Harris Corporation Team Completes Mission Support Network for FTI Northwest Mountain Regional Sites
June 21 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MELBOURNE, Fla., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today announced that its Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) team
has successfully completed the transition of all sites in the FAA's
Northwest Mountain Region to the new FTI Mission Support Services.
The FTI Mission Support network replaces the FAA's existing
wide-area network that transports administrative functions such as
payroll and e-mail. "The Mission Support program is on schedule and
represents the first major upgrade to the FAA's administrative
wide-area network in more than 10 years and will provide a much
more secure and reliable network for communications within the
FAA," said John O'Sullivan, FTI program vice president, Harris
Government Communications Systems Division. "The Northwest Mountain
Region is the first of the FAA's nine legacy regions to be fully
transitioned to the new Mission Support Network. The on-time
completion of this transition exemplifies the cooperation between
the FAA's field offices and the Harris FTI program team." All of
the FAA's 44 primary and secondary core sites, including FAA
headquarters and key operations centers, and more than 94-percent
of the FAA's smaller sites are already transitioned to the Mission
Support network, with all remaining sites expected to be completed
in this month. The FTI program is upgrading communications circuits
at more than 4,400 FAA facilities nationwide, creating a modern
telecommunications network that will provide unparalleled safety,
security, and reliability at significantly reduced operating costs.
The FTI program is expected to save the FAA more than $600 million
in operating costs over the 15-year life of the program. Harris
Corporation heads an industry-leading team of telecommunications
companies in the implementation of FTI. As part of the FTI program,
the Harris team is consolidating the Leased Interfacility NAS
Communications System, Data Multiplexing Network, Bandwidth
Manager, and National Aviation Data Interchange Network into an
integrated telecommunications infrastructure. Harris also is
replacing the Agency Data Telecommunications Network and the FAA
Telecommunications Satellite System. Requirements include providing
Wide Area Network services, upgrading switching and routing
services, improving network monitoring and control, implementing a
state-of-the-art security system, and providing network engineering
services. In addition to the Mission Support network installations,
FTI equipment has now been installed and accepted at more than
1,500 FAA facilities, and nearly 6,000 operational services have
been accepted and are in service nationwide. Transition from the
more costly legacy networks to FTI is expected to be completed by
December 2007. Harris Government Communications Systems Division
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 more than 13,000 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. For more information,
visit http://www.harris.com/ . Sound interesting? Find great jobs
at Harris: http://www.careers.harris.com/ DATASOURCE: Harris
Corporation CONTACT: Sleighton Meyer, Government Communications
Systems Division, +1-321-727-6514, or , or Brent Dietz, Corporate
Headquarters, +1-321-724-3554, or , both of Harris Web site:
http://www.harris.com/ http://www.careers.harris.com/
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