US Geospatial Agency Awards Harris Information Assurance Services Contract

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by Staff Writers
Falls Church VA (SPX) Dec 27, 2005
Harris Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide Information Assurance (IA) services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the Raytheon Company team.

Under terms of the contract, Harris Technical Services Corporation will provide a variety of technical services, including program management, life-cycle planning, intrusion detection and prevention, information system security, and public key infrastructure technology, as well as support other IA special projects. The work will be performed at NGA facilities in the greater Washington, D.C., and St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan areas.

The NGA is a major intelligence and combat support agency of the Department of Defense. The agency supports U.S. national policy makers and military forces by providing timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence derived by the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth.

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ISRO To Launch Israel's Spy Satellite

New Delhi, India (SPX) Nov 14, 2005
Israel has decided to launch its next spy satellite aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than its own indigenous Shavit rocket, according to a report in Spacenews, a Washington-based authoritative weekly on global space business, reports PTI.

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