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Ball Aerospace Wins National Air And Space Intelligence Center Contract
Dayton OH (SPX) Jul 17, 2009 Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) to continue providing Measurement and Signature Intelligence and Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (MASINT/AGI) to warfighters through the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP). The five-year, indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling value of $600 million to be competed among three contractors. ATEP continues Ball's prime contractor role on MASINT/AGI with NASIC, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. NASIC is the nation's premier source of air and space intelligence for DoD and national intelligence consumers. Ball Aerospace has provided on-site and off-site remote sensing and analysis support to NASIC's MASINT programs for more than 25 years. "Ball Aerospace has participated in the development and implementation of innovative data exploitation technologies as a prime contractor since the early 1980s and we are very pleased that our strong performance has earned the trust and confidence of NASIC to continue advancing emerging MASINT/AGI capabilities," said Ball's President and CEO, David L. Taylor. Ball's ATEP team will support ten key NASIC mission areas: overhead non-imaging; infra-red; synthetic aperture radar; spectral; thermal infrared; ground moving target indication forensics; line of sight radar; over the horizon radar; airborne electro-optical; laser intelligence; and radio frequency measurement and signature intelligence. Ball's expertise in AGI and MASINT includes conducting research and development, developing algorithms and data analysis tools, building end-to-end data exploitation systems, and working on site at NASIC analyzing and reporting on data collected by overhead, airborne, and ground-based sensors. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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