Harris to supply Navy with cockpit map computers

Harris Corp. has won a $9.3 million contract from the Navy to provide digital map computers for its aircraft.

Under the two-year agreement, the communications and information technology company will supply more than 200 of the moving map computers to be installed in a variety of Navy jets and helicopters.

The computer display gives aircrews a graphical presentation of the aircraft's current position, as well as the relative positions of targets, threats, terrain features, planned mission flight path and other information. The new digital video map computer includes a high-resolution moving map image channel.

Pilots will have two independent channels of real-time, digital moving map data, as well as various threat and terrain displays, said Sheldon Fox, president of Defense Department programs at Harris Defense Communications and Electronics.

Since 1997, Harris has won more than $95 million in contracts for the Tactical Airborne Moving Map Capability computer program, with a total value expected to reach $120 million by 2012.

Harris of Melbourne, Fla., ranks No. 21 on Washington Technology's 2007 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors.