US Air Force Awards
General Dynamics US$ 6 Million for Alternative Infrared Satellite System
Work
(19 June 2007) The U.S. Air Force
Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded General Dynamics Advanced
Information Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a US$ 6.4 million
contract modification to continue work on the Alternative Infrared Satellite
System (AIRSS) program.
Under the terms of the award, General
Dynamics will perform system design work leading to a system design review for
the alternative to the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program. The AIRSS
program is intended to provide strategic and tactical missile warning for the
U.S. in the middle of the next decade.
General Dynamics also recently
completed a two-day AIRSS System Requirements Review (SRR) in Gilbert, Ariz.,
during which more than 100 government and industry participants reviewed
requirements, space and ground system architectures, and operational
concepts.
"Working with our industry partners, General Dynamics Advanced
Information Systems is providing the leadership and technical solutions for
defining the next level of the AIRSS design. We are on track to deliver our
next major milestone, the Systems Design Review," said David Shingledecker,
vice president and general manager of integrated space systems for General
Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.
The system design work is being
performed at General Dynamics' space systems facilities in Gilbert, Ariz.
Teammates on the program include Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, El
Segundo, Calif.; Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Garland, Texas;
and Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Linthicum, Md.
General Dynamics
Advanced Information Systems designs, develops, manufactures, integrates,
operates and maintains mission systems for defence, space, intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance, homeland security and homeland defence customers.
Headquartered in Fairfax, Va., the company specialises in ground systems;
imagery processing; mission payloads; space vehicles; maritime subsurface,
surface and airborne mission systems; and tasking, collection, processing,
exploitation and dissemination programs for national
intelligence.
General Dynamics, headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia,
employs approximately 82,600 people world-wide and had 2006 revenues of US$
24.1 billion. The company is a market leader in business aviation; land and
expeditionary combat systems, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine
systems; and information systems and technologies.
(source: General
Dynamics Advanced Information Systems)