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Tuesday September 24 5:43 PM EDT
Sun Microsystems is Exclusive Supplier to Raytheon for FAA Traffic
Control Contract
WASHINGTON, D.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1996--Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., is the exclusive workstation supplier to Raytheon for the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS).
Sun Federal expects to deliver more than 10,000 Ultra(TM) workstations running the Sun(TM) Solaris(TM) operating environment for the STARS contract, which has an estimated value of $100 million over its life.
"This win is absolutely tremendous. We are very pleased to be a part of the Raytheon team," said John Marselle, president of Sun Microsystems Federal. "This is our largest civilian-agency win and strengthens our international traffic control business with Raytheon."
The STARS system will modernize and upgrade 371 terminal automation systems for the FAA and Department of Defense. This modernization will replace aging terminal automation equipment with an open architecture
based on easily upgradeable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware. This new system also will handle the new air traffic control features, including free flight, dependent surveillance, data link ommunications and a host of satellite (GPS) position and navigation upgrades.
With annual revenues of more than $7 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of
open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing.
Sun's SPARC(TM) workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX industry. Java(TM), Sun's
platform-independent programming language, provides a comprehensive solution to the challenge of programming for complex networks, including the Internet. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 and is
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
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