Harris Corporation to Bid as Prime Contractor for Ground Segment of Next Generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Sate
April 10 2007 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (Harris
Booth #400) -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international
communications and information technology company, is bidding as
prime contractor and systems integrator for the ground segment of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite - Series R (GOES-R) program.
The announcement was made during the 23rd National Space Symposium
being held April 9-12 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. The
ground segment of the GOES-R program includes receiving and
processing satellite data, generation and distribution of products
from satellite data, and command and control of orbiting
satellites. The ground segment is slated to run through 2029,
including development, operations and sustainment phases. Scheduled
for launch in 2014, GOES-R will feature highly advanced sensor
technology, and will provide much higher resolution and data
frequency than the current GOES spacecraft family. It is the
primary tool used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) to detect and track hurricanes and other
severe weather in the continental United States and western
hemisphere. The current GOES system provides imagery, atmospheric
measurements, and space environmental monitoring over the western
hemisphere every 30 minutes with visual and infrared imagery at 1
and 4 kilometer resolutions. GOES-R will improve the rate of
imagery coverage to every 5 minutes. "The GOES-R series of
satellites represents the future of the GOES program and will
provide significant advances over the current system," said Jeremy
Wensinger, group president of Integrated Systems and Services,
Harris Government Communications Systems Division. "Harris is
highly qualified to prime the ground segment based on our proven
expertise in data processing and command and control, and we look
forward to providing the best-value solution that will support the
next generation of geostationary weather satellites for NOAA."
Harris is a recognized leader in satellite ground data processing
and mission command-and-control systems. The company's 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 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 is also a leading manufacturer of communications
payloads for military, intelligence and commercial satellites,"
added Mr. Wensinger. "In addition to competing as a prime
contractor for the ground segment, we look forward to working with
the space segment primes to propose innovative and cost-effective
antenna and electronic solutions for GOES-R satellites." 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 revenue 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 Jim Burke,
Corporate Headquarters, +1-321-727-9131, , both of Harris
Corporation Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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