DAYTON, Ohio, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp has received a develop from the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) to last providing Measurement and Signature Intelligence and Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (MASINT/AGI) to warfighters through the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP). The five-year, inexact total get has a ceiling value of $600 million to be competed amidst three contractors.
ATEP continues Ball's acme contractor duty on MASINT/AGI with NASIC, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. NASIC is the nation's prime horse's mouth of aerate and gap dope for DoD and inhabitant keenness consumers. Ball Aerospace has provided on-site and off-site far-removed sensing and dissection prop to NASIC's MASINT programs for more than 25 years. "Ball Aerospace has participated in the progress and implementation of innovative information exploitation technologies as a notify contractor since the inopportune 1980s and we are very on cloud nine that our opinionated portrayal has earned the commit and assurance of NASIC to take up advancing emerging MASINT/AGI capabilities," said Ball's President and CEO, David L. Taylor.
Ball's ATEP set will stomach ten main NASIC function areas: high up non-imaging; infra-red; artificial space radar; spectral; thermal infrared; earth striking end forewarning forensics; rope of sight radar; over the view radar; airborne electro-optical; laser intelligence; and boom box frequency determination and signature intelligence. Ball's skill in AGI and MASINT includes conducting investigation and development, developing algorithms and details analysis tools, edifice end-to-end data exploitation systems, and working on placement at NASIC analyzing and reporting on matter collected by overhead, airborne, and ground-based sensors. Ball Aerospace has tear opportunities for proficient advanced geospatial savvy professionals including Intel analysts, supernatural scientists, software developers and c whilom warfighters. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports depreciating missions of leading chauvinistic agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. direction and commercial entities.
The body develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, figures exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, cunning and organized applications. Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL) is a supplier of high-quality metal and tractable packaging for beverage, aliment and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, predominantly for the U.S. government.
Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries retain more than 14,000 kinsfolk worldwide and reported 2008 sales of approximately $7.6 billion. Forward-Looking Statements This releasing contains "forward-looking" statements respecting unborn events and monetary performance.
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Key risks and uncertainties are summarized in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99.2 in our Form 10-K, which are present at our Web locality and at. Factors that might move our packaging segments comprise fluctuation in outcome want and preferences; availability and outlay of frank materials; competitive packaging availability, pricing and substitution; changes in feel and weather; crop yields; competitive activity; loss to attain anticipated productivity improvements or movie expenditure reductions, including our beverage can end project; commanded down payment or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in biggest customer or supplier contracts or harm of a major person or supplier; and changes in foreign swap rates, tax rates and activities of extraneous subsidiaries.
Factors that might choose our aerospace segment include: funding, authorization, availability and returns of management and commercial contracts; and delays, extensions and polytechnic uncertainties affecting partition contracts. Factors that might strike the presence as a whole include those listed plus: accounting changes; changes in superior management; the trendy global creditation squeeze and its effects on liquidity, praise risk, asset values and the economy; lucrative or unsuccessful acquisitions, collaborative ventures or divestitures; integration of recently acquired businesses; regulatory fray or laws including tax, environmental, trim and workplace safety, including in quality of chemicals or substances cast-off in inflamed materials or in the manufacturing process; governmental investigations; technological developments and innovations; goodwill impairment; antitrust, licence and other litigation; strikes; labor get changes; rates of home-coming projected and earned on assets of the company's defined aid retirement plans; benefit changes; reduced scratch flow; attention rates affecting our debt; and changes to unaudited results due to statutory audits or other effects. SOURCE Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
