Exelis to Build Antennas for NASA Atmosphere Study Program; Paul Eyring Comments
ITT Exelis has won a contract to develop antennas for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to use for multinational atmospheric studies. Exelis will provide 25 multiband global navigation satellite systems for studies on meteorology, ionospheric research, climatology and space weather, Exelis said Thursday. Paul Eyring, Exelis senior director of programs for antennas, sensors and microelectronics, said the [...]
An ITT Exelis subsidiary has released a new platform intended to help organizations create, publish and deploy image analytics as web-based services. Exelis Visual Information Solutions developed ENVI Services Engine for government agencies as they adopt cloud computing and take in large amounts of geospatial data, Exelis said Monday. Users on a cloud or enterprise framework [...]
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A Lockheed Martin-led team has turned on the power for the system module in the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellite constellation scheduled for first launch in 2014. The team integrated the module’s mechanics and will move forward to electrical and integrated hardware-software testing, Lockheed said Thursday. Team members include ITT Exelis, General Dynamics, ATK, Infinity [...]
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Exelis Providing NASA Software For Earth Monitoring Satellite; Jaye Lampe Comments
February 14, 2013 No CommentAn ITT Exelis subsidiary is providing software to NASA for a satellite launched Monday to conduct research into agriculture, mapping, geology, forestry, regional planning, surveillance and education. Exelis Visual Information Solutions has provided the ENVI software for all previous Landsat program missions and has updated the program to extract metadata from files for radiometric calibration [...]
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has certified an ITT Exelis vehicle movement area transmitter as compliant with agency standards on installation in airport vehicles and maintenance. V-MAT is also compliant with FAA standards on the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system, the agency’s satellite-based successor to radar and part of its NextGen program, Exelis said Monday. Ted [...]
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