MELBOURNE, Fla., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Unifies Full Motion Video Expertise from Government and
Broadcast Divisions
- Focused on supporting the ISR and Federal Agencies FMV
communities
- Accelerates the development and deployment of COTS FMV
solutions
Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications
and information technology company, has combined its commercial and
government full motion video initiatives into a single organization
focused entirely on supporting the intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR) market for full motion video (FMV) products
and systems. The Harris full motion video team will focus on
government customers' needs, promote the rapid development of more
advanced ISR capabilities, and accelerate the deployment of these
solutions to assist analysts in the field to manage the massive
amounts of sensor intelligence data being collected.
The new Harris FMV organization will support all U.S.
government, international military and federal law enforcement
activities for the Harris Full Motion Video Asset Management Engine
(FAME™) architecture and related technologies and capabilities from
across Harris. FAME is a collaborative platform that provides
video, audio and metadata coding, video analytics, and archive
capabilities – all within a unified digital asset management
solution. Using the FAME architecture, Harris has developed
additional features to provide intelligence analysts and
warfighters with better access to higher-resolution full-motion
video, motion imagery and visual imagery.
"We are responding to the increased demand from the ISR and
federal law enforcement community for end-to-end FMV solutions
across the process-exploit-disseminate workflow," said Sheldon Fox, group president, Harris Government
Communications Systems. "The Harris FMV team combines the
products and technologies from our broadcast business with the
technical capabilities, engineering and program management
expertise from our government communications business. The
result is an extremely focused organization with an increased
investment in motion imagery, analytics, and the fusion of metadata
with content to create actionable intelligence."
Primary potential customers include branches of the military,
federal law enforcement agencies and other defense companies who
serve as prime contractors on large systems. In addition to
supporting end-user requirements, the new organization will target
major prime contractors and offer advanced ISR solutions that
reduce their time-to-market for large government program
systems.
"We are leveraging Harris' strength and footprint in the
geospatial and broadcast markets to further expand our FMV
portfolio, allowing us to push forward COTS solutions faster in to
the field, said Fox. "This benefits not only our end
customers, but also our partners and prime contractors who have the
same need to rapidly deploy solutions."
Harris today also made another significant announcement – the
introduction of the Newsfish™ application for FAME which extends
commercial capabilities to the military, DoD and public agencies by
enabling iPhone® users to capture, annotate and distribute full
motion video.
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
approximately $6 billion of annual
revenue and more than 16,000 employees — including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at www.harris.com.
SOURCE Harris Corporation