Harris Corporation Communications Equipment Helps Make Ballistic Missile Test A Success.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2002

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), a leading supplier of sophisticated command, control and communications systems for defense applications, announced today that its hardware for the In-Flight Interceptor Communications System (IFICS) played a key role in another successful Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) test recently conducted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The IFICS provides critical communication links between ground command and control systems and ballistic missile interceptors of the GMD, formerly known as National Missile Defense (NMD).

At approximately 10:28 p.m. EDT last night, an Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) launched from the Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands intercepted its target over the Pacific Ocean. The target was launched atop a modified Minuteman II missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. After the interceptor was launched, the GMD Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) system began generating targeting data from track reports received from ground-based radar. The BMC2 system subsequently tasked the Harris-developed IFICS Data Terminal hardware to transmit these critical targeting updates to the Interceptor as it approached the ballistic target. As a result, the interceptor was able to acquire, identify, and perform a successful "hit-to-kill" intercept of the speeding target for the fourth time in as many attempts.

"Harris has been involved in the design, development, and testing of communications systems for the GMD program since the inception of the Strategic Defense Initiative," said Bob Henry, president, Harris Government Communications Systems Division (GCSD). "We are extremely proud to be a key participant in yet another successful test of GMD."

Under a six-year, $70 million contract with TRW Inc., Missile Defense Division, Harris is designing, developing and testing the prototype IFICS Data Terminal being installed at the Ronald Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands and at Harris facilities in Palm Bay, Florida. The contract value for Harris could rise to more than $130 million if the company is awarded a proposed option to provide additional IFICS Data Terminals as part of the Battle Management Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) element of GMD.

In addition to the IFICS Data Terminal work with TRW, Harris has a GMD-related contract with The Boeing Company, Anaheim, California. Under the two-year, $8 million contract, Harris is providing modeling, design and development technical support for the GMD Communication Network (GCN).

Harris GCSD, one of five divisions within Harris Corporation, conducts advanced research studies, develops prototypes, and produces and supports state-of-the-art, assured communications and information systems that solve the mission-critical communications challenges of its military and government customers, as well as provides the technology base for the company's diverse commercial businesses. Harris Corporation, which also provides microwave, broadcast, network support, and tactical radio products and systems, has sales and services facilities in more than 90 countries. For more information, visit http://www.harris.com.

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