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ITT MOVES INTO PRIME SYSTEMS CONTRACTING

March 30, 2010 by

ITT MOVES INTO PRIME SYSTEMS CONTRACTING
By Julian Nettlefold

25 Feb 10. BATTLESPACE met up with Ken Peterman, President of ITT Communications Systems, at AUSA Winter, to discuss the ITT’s Communications strategy, to discuss the recent realignment of ITT’s defense businesses reported earlier this year.

On January 5th ITT Corporation announced a strategic realignment of its defense segment, a move designed to better align the company with the emerging needs of its expanding global customer base, which is increasingly integrated and network-centric. The realignment will enable better integration of its product portfolio, encouraging a more coordinated market approach and reduced operational redundancies.

“We are positioning ITT to support our customers’ emerging technology needs, while also greatly enhancing our ability to stake out new markets,” said Steve Loranger, ITT’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. “We believe this move will also allow ITT to achieve greater operating efficiencies and optimize our cost structure, which will help drive successful business strategies for continued top-line growth.”

The company’s defense segment was renamed ITT Defense and Information Solutions. Its current organizational structure, comprising seven separate business units, will be consolidated into three larger ones.
* The Electronic Systems and Communications Systems divisions, as well as a portion of the Intelligence & Information Warfare division, were merged to form a more versatile Electronic Systems division, based in Clifton, N.J. This division will deliver advanced protection measures that work together to help ITT’s customers defend their networks and disable enemy networks. It will shift its focus from producing separate, point-of-use products to secure, networked communications systems and powerful sensing, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies that address the entire spectrum of electronic warfare.
* The Space Systems and Night Vision divisions were merged to form Geospatial Systems, based in Rochester, N.Y. The new center will focus on providing networked sensors, such as next generation imaging, including space and air sensors, image/infrared/digital sensors and air/ground/space systems, which transition the company’s capabilities from disparate image acquisition to image processing and distribution across the network.
* The Advanced Engineering & Sciences and Systems divisions were combined with a portion of the Intelligence & Information Warfare division to form the Information Systems division, based in Herndon, Va. This division will focus on networked decision support solutions through the combination of large system operations and maintenance capabilities with the sophisticated techniques of information integration and protection, such as next-generation air traffic management solutions, national intelligence networks and cyber security. This combination will expand the capabilities that have made ITT a leading systems developer for high-priority needs.

“This reorganization is a strategic action to better address the evolving needs of our customers, the cyclical nature of defense spending and the need to continue to deliver value to our shareholders, while maintaining ITT’s most critical investments and competencies,” said Dave Melcher, president of ITT Defense & Information Solutions. “We remain very proud of our premier defense technologies that serve the needs of our fighting men and women wherever they may deploy, and we are equally excited about the opportunity to better leverage the growing strength of our portfolio in adjacent markets, such as air traffic management, cyber security and global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.”

“How does this reorganisation affect your Communications segment?” The Editor asked

“What the reorganisation has done is to realign our business with other key areas of technology such as EW and counter-IED development to allow

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