Brussels, September 18, 2006 – EADS SPACE is proud to be a major contributor to TEAMSAIC, led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), which has been selected by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to negotiate a firm fixed-price contract to support the integration of NATO’s Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD) system. The programme defines a six-year period of activity with an estimated value of $95 million. EADS SPACE’s involvement is the latest step in a long-lasting and successful relationship with SAIC on NATO’s Ballistic Missile Defence Feasibility Studies since 2001.
As part of the System Engineering & Integration (SE&I) contract, EADS SPACE will be Systems Engineering lead and will support various other activities. It has proven experience drawn from some of Europe’s largest and most complex space programmes, including the Ariane 5 launcher, the Automated Transfer Vehicle for the International Space Station and a number of ballistic missile programmes.
"EADS SPACE will provide world-class experience in ballistic warfare and space-related capabilities including exo-atmospheric interception and sensor systems. EADS SPACE will also contribute its expertise in complex systems engineering to support SAIC and NATO in this new challenge," said Alain Charmeau, CEO of EADS SPACE’s launcher division. "As part of Team SAIC, EADS SPACE is committed to successfully integrating Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence assets with NATO command and control capabilities in an effective architecture solution."
EADS SPACE is one of Europe's foremost experts in the ballistic warfare domain, offering leading edge knowledge of ballistic missile defence and countermeasures. EADS SPACE offers sophisticated, high fidelity missile defence simulations to the NATO programme. Under the previous NATO Ballistic Missile Defence Feasibility Studies, EADS SPACE was responsible for the overall technical feasibility, threat analysis, sensor performance and sensitivity analysis.
The members of Team SAIC are drawn from six NATO nations including France, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy. Team members include: SAIC as prime contractor, EADS SPACE, Thales, Thales-Raytheon Systems Company SAS (TRS SAS), the Raytheon Company, Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH (IABG), Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG , QinetiQ, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), and Datamat SpA.
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, with more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide. For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2006, the company reported annual revenues of $7.8 billion. SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. SAIC: FROM SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS™
EADS SPACE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space company), is dedicated to civil and defense space systems. In 2005, EADS SPACE had a turnover of €2.7 billion and 11,000 employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain. EADS SPACE has three main areas of activity: Launchers and orbital systems, Satellites and ground systems and Services providing civil and military satellite based services.
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services. In 2005, EADS generated revenues of €34.2 billion and employed a workforce of more than 113,000.
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