Harris Corporation

Harris Corporation

Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: HRS S&P 500 Component
Industry	Telecommunications equipment
Founded	1895 (1895)
Headquarters	Melbourne, Florida
Key people	William M. Brown, President and CEO
Products	Defense and Communications
Revenue	US$5925 million (2011)^[1]
Operating income	US$587 million (2011)^[1]
Net income	US$587 million (2011)^[1]
Total assets	US$6173 million (2011)^[1]
Total equity	US$2512 million (2011)^[1]
Employees	16,900 (2011)^[1]
Divisions	RF Communications, Integrated Network Solutions, Government Communications Systems
Website	www.harris.com

Harris Corporation is a Florida-based international telecommunications equipment company that produces wireless equipment, electronic systems, and both terrestrial and spaceborne antennas for use in the government, defense, and commercial sectors. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, in 2011 the company had approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and more than 16,900 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists.^[1]

The company is the largest private-sector employer in Brevard County, Florida (approximately 6400 of more than 15000 company-wide)^{[citation needed]}. The company was the parent of Intersil (Harris Semiconductor). Most of the wireless start-ups in South Brevard County were founded and are staffed by former Harris Corporation engineers and technicians^{[citation needed]}. The company's Digital Telephone Systems (DTS) division was sold to Teltronics. In 2009, Harris was one of the top 100 federal contractors.^[2]

1 History
- 1.1 Chief executives
2 Board of directors
3 Business Segments
4 List of Harris acquisitions
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

History [edit]

Harris MR80C88 processor.

The "Harris Automatic Press Company" was founded in Niles, Ohio in 1895. They spent the next 60 years developing lithographic processes and printing presses before acquiring typesetting company Intertype Corporation, and Gates Radio, once a producer of broadcast electronics, in 1957.

In 1959, they acquired microwave technology company PRD Electronics of Brooklyn, New York.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967, they merged with Radiation, Inc. of Melbourne, Florida, a developer of antenna, integrated circuit, and modem technology used in the space race: the semiconductor business that later became Intersil in 1999 was born of this development. The company headquarters was moved from Cleveland to Melbourne in 1978.^{[citation needed]}

In 1969, Harris Corporation acquired RF Communications and Farinon, furthering its microwave assets. The printing operations were sold off in 1983 and are now known as GSS Printing Equipment. GSS Printing Equipment later acquired Lanier Worldwide, which itself was spun off from Harris Corporation in the late 1990s.^{[citation needed]}^{[clarification needed]}

In the late 1980s, Harris bought the semiconductor division of RCA after GE's acquisition of RCA, later selling the same to Texas Instruments in the later 1990s or very early 2000s.^{[citation needed]}^{[clarification needed]} TI still (as of Sept. 2006) makes the CD4000 family of CMOS logic chips originally offered by RCA and acquired by TI through Harris.

In 1996, Harris Corporation formed a joint venture with Shenzhen Telecom Company to produce and sell Harris’ digital microwave radios and integrate them with other systems.^{[citation needed]}^{[clarification needed]}

In 2005, the corporation spent $870 million on research and development.^[3]

In January 2011 Harris opened its Calgary, Alberta avionics operation, Harris Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation. The new facility's operations include among others the support of the work to be completed under the company's six-year, $273 million (CAD) services contract with the Government of Canada for the CF-18 Avionics Optimized Weapon System Support (OWSS) program.^[4]

Chief executives [edit]

**Chief executives**
Name	Title	Tenure
Alfred S. Harris	President	1895–1947
Vernon Mitchell		1947–1955
George S. Dively	Chairman & CEO	1955–1972
Richard B. Tullis	Chairman & CEO	1972–1978
Joseph A. Boyd	Chairman & CEO	1978–1987
John T. Hartley	Chairman & CEO	1987 – June 1995
Phillip W. Farmer	Chairman, CEO & President	July 1995 – January 2003
Howard L. Lance	Chairman, CEO & President	February 2003 – October 2011
William M. Brown	CEO & President	November 2011 – present

Board of directors [edit]

William M. Brown - Chief Executive Officer
Howard L. Lance – Chairman of the Board
Thomas A. Dattilo
Terry D. Growcock
Lewis Hay III
Karen Katen
Stephen P. Kaufman
Leslie F. Kenne
David B. Rickard
Dr. James C. Stoffel
Gregory T. Swienton
Hansel E. Tookes II

Business Segments [edit]

RF Communications [edit]

RF Communications^[5] is supplies secure tactical radio communications for military, defense and other government organizations.^{[citation needed]} The Falcon range of software-defined radio systems encompasses manpack, vehicular, handheld and personal-role radio applications. Falcon III is a multiband, multimission tactical radio that enables networked battlefield communications through its wideband networking capability. Harris Public Safety and Professional Communications^[6] designs and builds communications networks and products for customers in the public safety, civilian, federal agencies, utility, transportation and transit markets. Products range from VIDA networks, to P25IP and OpenSky wireless communications systems for first responders to VIDA Broadband solutions for Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Government Communications Systems [edit]

Government Communications Systems develops, produces, integrates, and supports systems for defense, national intelligence, federal and civil customers. It the U.S. Department of Defense and national intelligence agencies, as well as Federal civilian agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration, Census Bureau, Department of Justice, Department of State, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration^{[citation needed]}.

Government Communications Systems is composed of three customer focused businesses—Defense Programs,^[7] National Intelligence Programs,^[8] Civil Programs.^[9]

Integrated Network Solutions [edit]

Integrated Network Solutions, which includes Broadcast Communications, supplies technology solutions to TV stations and networks; cable, satellite, telecommunications and other media content providers; government customers; and sports and entertainment organizations.