Harris Corporation : Successfully Completes GOES-R Satellite Ground Segment Critical Design Review
06/06/2012| 08:05am US/Eastern
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Highlights:
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New weather satellite system will significantly improve severe weather
warning time.
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Successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) results in
approval to begin the implementation phase.
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Harris completed the design review milestone on schedule and within
budget.
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and
information technology company, has successfully completed the Critical
Design Review and has been approved to begin implementation of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series (GOES-R) Ground Segment.
Harris is the prime contractor and systems integrator for the 10-year
contract to produce the GOES-R Ground Segment, which will process
approximately 60 times more data than is possible today, and deliver
weather products to the National Weather Service and more than 10,000
other direct users.
The Critical Design Review (CDR) is a formal technical review of the
detailed design of the Ground Segment and how it will operate within the
overall GOES-R system. The Ground Segment encompasses receiving and
processing of satellite data, generating and distributing of products
from satellite data, and command and control of operational satellites.
Successful completion of the CDR establishes a firm design baseline for
advancing to the implementation phase of the program. It is the
culmination of more than 70 software and hardware design reviews, as
well as operational reviews of the mission management, product
generation, product distribution, enterprise management and
infrastructure capabilities.
Today's GOES satellites provide the familiar images and time-lapse
sequences used in television weather forecasts. They are one of the
primary tools used by NOAA to detect and track hurricanes,
thunderstorms, tornadoes and other severe weather in the continental
U.S. and western hemisphere. The next-generation GOES-R system will
provide significant improvements over the current GOES satellites. It
will feature improved image resolution and will increase the rate of
imagery coverage of the Earth's surface from every 30 minutes to every
five minutes in normal conditions -- and every 30 seconds during severe
weather events. In addition, the GOES-R system will provide a new
capability for the continuous monitoring of all (in-cloud and
cloud-to-ground) lightning activity, providing increased warning lead
time for severe storms and tornadoes.
"This milestone establishes the detailed design of the Ground Segment,
including hardware, software and operations designs," said Ray Thorpe,
vice president, GOES-R programs, Harris Government Communications
Systems. "During the CDR, Harris also demonstrated early deployment of
key functions of the system, illustrating its design maturity and
efforts to reduce risk."
Industry members of the Harris GOES-R Ground Segment team include Verisk
Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) company Atmospheric and Environmental Research
Inc., Boeing Mission Systems, Carr Astronautics, Honeywell Technology
Solutions Inc., Wyle Information Systems LLC, and Applied Research and
Engineering Sciences. The team is providing a service-based,
open-architecture solution to accommodate the exponential increase in
data to be taken in, processed and distributed to thousands of direct
users.
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, turning it 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 some of the largest and most
complex satellite fleets deployed today.
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 about 17,000 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.
Harris Government Communications Systems
Sleighton Meyer, 321-727-6514
sleighton.meyer@harris.com
or
Harris
Corporation
Jim Burke, 321-727-9131
jim.burke@harris.com
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