TRW Awarded $77.8 Million Contract To Build Advanced Communications Technology Demonstration Satellite.REDONDO BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 1998--TRW Inc. has been awarded a $77.8 million contract by the National Reconnaissance Office Noun 1. National Reconnaissance Office - an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental to design, build and operate the Geosynchronous Lightweight Technology Experiment (GeoLITE) satellite program. GeoLITE is an advanced technology demonstration satellite with a laser communications experiment and an operational UHF communications mission. The GeoLITE program also employs streamlined acquisition and design-to-cost methodologies to complete the satellite development, integration and launch in early 2001. TRW has total system integration responsibility for GeoLITE. Teammates include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory and Hughes Space and Communications Co. "This award recognizes TRW's strengths in building high performance, high reliability civil, military and commercial satellite communications systems," said Ed Nowacki, TRW Defense Systems Division vice president and general manager. "It also draws on TRW's extensive system integration capabilities." The GeoLITE satellite will weigh approximately 4,000 pounds and be launched on a Boeing Delta II launch vehicle. The satellite is based on a modular bus design with multi-mission capabilities that has produced programs such as the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe, the Earth Observing System The Earth Observing System (EOS) is a program of NASA comprising a series of artificial satellite missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans of the Earth. Common Spacecraft, and the Republic of China's ROCSAT-1 spacecraft. GeoLITE extends TRW's ongoing efforts in satellite communications systems. TRW is building six Low Data Rate payloads for the Department of Defense's Milstar communications satellites and is developing a prototype of the key digital processing system for the next generation satellite communications system under the Advanced Extremely High Frequency The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system is a joint service satellite communications system that provides global, secure, protected, and jam resistant communications for high-priority military ground, sea, and air assets. Engineering Model program. The company has also built seven NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite A Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) is one of a network of communications satellites of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) used by NASA and other United States government agencies for communication to satellites or the International Space Station. Systems (TDRSS TDRSS Tracking & Data Relay Satellite System TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Services ) satellites, eight Navy UHF Fleet Satellite Communications satellites, 16 Defense Satellite Communication System (DSCS DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System DSCS Desk Side Computer System DSCS Data Systems (Technician) Senior Chief (Petty Officer) (US Navy Rating) II) satellites and eight INTELSAT III satellites. TRW provides advanced technology products and services for the automotive, space and defense, and information technology markets worldwide. Its 1997 sales totaled nearly $12 billion (including the recent BDM acquisition).
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