DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has received U.S. Air Force task orders to develop and integrate enhanced operational Common Ground System capabilities.
Under the four task orders -- worth more than $17 million -- Ball will spend 18 months integrating data streams from enhanced sensors on the Global Hawk and Predator unmanned aerial vehicles into the Air Force DCGS to ensure the data from the newest UAV sensors can be fully exploited.
"To improve effectiveness in the field and assist in keeping military personnel safe, Ball Aerospace is providing new Net-centric situational awareness, radar, moving target indicators and spectral capabilities for the intelligence community and the war fighter," said Dan Gibson, vice president and general manager of Ball's Systems Engineering Solutions business unit.
The orders expand Ball's offerings through the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program contract for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. ATEP continues Ball Aerospace's prime contractor role since 1983 in providing NASIC with measurement and signature Intelligence and advanced geospatial Intelligence.
