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Border Alliance, RIS is developing an integrated, automated system to track the entry and exit of visitors entering
the United States. Other contracts include operations and maintenance of the NASA Earth Observing System Data
and Information System (EOSDIS), and Common Services to Borrowers (CSB) which provides a student loan debt
collection system for the Department of Education.
Space Systems (SS) –The SS business is focused on satellites and the support required for satellites. SS develops
satellite command and control software and provides mission and resource management, end-to-end information
and network management, and modeling and simulation capabilities to its customers. Primary customers include
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), NSA, the U.S. Air Force, The Boeing
Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Lockheed Martin Corporation. SS also works with commercial
customers as the ground systems integrator supporting satellites used to support hundreds of television channels to
households around the world. Contracts include the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
System (NPOES), the Global Positioning System III (GPSIII), NASA’s EOS and the James Webb Space Telescope.
Strategic Imaging Systems (SIS) – SIS provides automated intelligence systems, information management and
automated releasability dissemination systems; architecture design, development and integration, ground systems
engineering support, operations/management, advanced data processing technology and algorithms; multi-level
security architecture and accreditation. Customers include the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA),
National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Space Imaging, LLC, and various classified and proprietary governmental
customers. SIS contracts include Freedom, involving life-cycle support for a large data processing center for a
proprietary customer, and the MIND, which provides common ground services for a proprietary customer.
Tactical Intelligence Systems (TIS) – TIS has core competencies in manned and unmanned Signals Intelligence
(SIGINT) sensors, ground control of airborne SIGINT sensors, multi-INT ground systems, Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) ground stations and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) battle space management.
Customers include the DoD, primarily the Air Force, and classified as well as proprietary agencies. TIS programs
include: Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), Consolidated Field Services (CFS) for all sensors and
ground systems and data links for the U-2, and Tactical Control System (TCS) for simultaneous control of multiple
UAV’s and their payloads from the same station.
Technical solutions, value, delivery schedules, past performance and award fee achievement are among the
principal competitive factors considered by IIS’ customers, which include classified customers, the U.S. Air Force,
U.S. Navy, NOAA, NASA, NGA and other federal civil and military customers. IIS relies upon its domain
knowledge and ability to address customer issues, along with its program performance, to compete for its business.
Missile Systems. The Missile Systems (MS) business, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, is the world’s premier
missile manufacturer. The Missile Systems business creates a broad range of cutting edge solutions and products for
the U.S. military and many allied countries. MS consists of the following business areas: Strike, Air-to- Air, Naval
Weapon Systems, Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle, Kinetic Energy Interceptor, Advanced Missile Defense and
Directed Energy, Land Combat and Advanced Programs.
MS had 2004 net sales of $3.8 billion.
Strike – Products and services included in the Strike product line enable U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy customers
to attack, suppress or destroy ground-based targets such as bridges, buildings, aircraft/bunkers, tanks, radar sites
and/or air-defense missile installations. Programs involving the Strike product line includes Tactical Tomahawk, an
advanced surface- or sub-launched cruise missile with loitering and network communication capability, Paveway
laser guided “smart” bomb; Joint Stand Off Weapon (JSOW), a joint Navy/Air Force low cost, air-to-ground
weapon; High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM), which suppresses or destroys surface-to-air missile radars,
early warning radars, and radar-directed air defense artillery systems; and Maverick, a family of versatile, precision
strike missiles.