Harris Corporation to Host MILCOM 2007 in Orlando; Call for Technical Paper Abstracts Extended to March 9
February 06 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
MELBOURNE, Fla., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and
information technology company, will be the industry host for
MILCOM 2007, the Free World's premier military communications
conference taking place October 29 -- 31 in Orlando, Florida, at
the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. More than 4,000
government and industry representatives are expected at the 26th
annual gathering. "Harris is proud to host this distinctive
conference, which brings together representatives from the
government, military, academia and industry from around the world,"
said Bob Henry, executive vice president of Harris Corporation and
executive chairman of MILCOM 2007. "MILCOM attracts the best and
brightest experts in the various disciplines of communications
technology. In the MILCOM tradition, we anticipate an outstanding
series of technical presentations and discussions that will advance
the state-of-the-art in military communications." The MILCOM
Technical Committee is now actively seeking authors of unclassified
and classified technical papers -- up to DoD Secret -- to address
this year's conference theme, "Interoperability: Policy to
Performance." Topics for MILCOM 2007 technical papers should cover
communications and information processing system technologies and
capabilities that address 21st Century communications challenges
related to national defense, homeland security, disaster response
and interoperability. The due date for abstracts has been extended
to March 9, and draft papers must be submitted by April 20. Author
notification is scheduled for May 25, and both classified and
unclassified final papers are due by July 6. MILCOM is co-sponsored
by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
(AFCEA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) Communications Society. Since its inception 25 years ago,
this will be the first time that MILCOM will be held in the
Southeastern U.S., following successful conferences in Washington,
DC; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlantic City, New Jersey; San Diego,
California; and other U.S. cities. For more information about
MILCOM 2007, including details on suggested areas of interest for
technical papers and other information, visit
http://www.milcom.org/2007. About Harris Corporation Harris is an
international communications and information technology company
serving government and commercial markets in more than 150
countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
annual sales of about $4 billion and more than 14,000 employees --
including more than 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is
dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(TM)
products, systems, and services for global markets, including
government communications, RF communications, broadcast
communications, and wireless transmission network solutions.
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, 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/ http://www.milcom.org/2007
http://www.careers.harris.com/
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