September 2003

bd Systems on Team Selected for Deep Space Network Operations and Maintenance Support Work

 TORRANCE, California, September 2003 - The team headed by ITT and including bd Systems has been selected to provide operations and maintenance support for NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN)

We had been notified by ITT Industries Systems Division that the team headed by ITT and including bd Systems has been selected to provide operations and maintenance support for NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). The DSN is an international network of antennas providing communications between NASA's facilities on earth and its spacecraft sent to explore the solar system and the universe. There are currently three such communications facilities: at Goldstone, in the Mojave Desert of Southern California; near Canberra, Australia; and near Madrid, Spain.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, operates and manages the DSN for NASA. The contract from JPL to ITT could last for up to ten years, and bd will provide network operations and network engineering services primarily at JPL.