Harris Corporation Opens Two New Facilities in Washington DC Area
October 02 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Company Expands Presence and Consolidates Operations WASHINGTON,
Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an
international communications and information technology company,
has moved into two new facilities in the Washington, DC area to
handle its ongoing expansion and to provide better proximity to its
growing base of U.S. government customers. Harris, ranked among the
top 25 government contractors, has 1,500 employees in the
metropolitan DC area dedicated to supporting vital national
security, defense and civil programs. The company recently moved
its business development, government relations and public affairs
staff from Alexandria, Virginia into a 14,000-square-foot suite of
offices on Maryland Avenue at the L'Enfant Plaza metro stop in
Washington, D.C. The location provides the staff closer proximity
to the numerous government departments and agencies that it
services, as well as to Capitol Hill. The new Harris facility
features encrypted wireless access, state-of-the-art video and
display conference facilities, two multi-media customer briefing
centers, and a roof top deck. In addition, Harris has consolidated
its IT Services headquarters in a new facility at 12000 Atlantic
Blvd. in Dulles, Virginia -- eight miles north of Washington Dulles
International Airport. The new 50,000-square-foot facility is an
environmentally friendly office space that incorporates several
substantive waste reduction and energy conservation practices.
"Harris is expanding its presence in the Washington, DC area as
part of our ongoing commitment to the U.S. government departments
and agencies that we serve," said Peter Challan, vice president of
Government Relations for Harris. "For more than 40 years, we have
been a leading supplier of communications and information systems
to the U.S. government, and today support nearly 300 diverse
government programs -- ranging from modernizing communications and
IT systems for the U.S. Census Bureau to upgrading the FAA's
communications network and providing avionics for the F-35
Lightning II." Along with expanding service to its customer base,
Harris and its employees are also playing an increased role in
communities around the beltway by donating hundreds of thousands of
dollars and hundreds of volunteer hours to the area's educational,
philanthropic and cultural organizations including Fisher House for
military families, Our Military Kids, Pentagon Memorial Fund,
American Red Cross, George Washington University, American
University, University of Maryland, Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges, The Virginia High Tech Partnership, Project
Northstar: Empowering Children, Through Education, John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts, Special Olympics Virginia, Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation, United Way of Western Montgomery County, The
Women's Center, DC Self Defense Karate Association, The Coast Guard
Scholarship Fund and others. 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 $5.3 billion and 16,500 employees -- including
nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to
developing best-in-class assured communications(R); products,
systems, and services. Additional information about Harris
Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/. DATASOURCE:
Harris Corporation CONTACT: Marc Raimondi of Harris Corporation -
Washington, DC, +1-202-729-3732, , or CeeCee Evans of Harris IT
Services, +1-703-483-8684, , or Jim Burke of Harris Corporation,
+1-321-727-9131, Web site: http://www.harris.com/
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