MONTREAL, Dec. 8, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- EMS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ELMG) today received the Boeing (NYSE:BA) Exceptional Company Performance Award for its contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), the largest, most complex international scientific project in history. This award is part of NASA's Space Flight Awareness program that recognizes the highest levels of product quality, technical and cost performance, and adherence to challenging schedules.
EMS Technologies' Space & Technology / Montreal division designed, integrated and tested all of the principal communications suites for the ISS, featuring fully redundant S-Band Antenna Contingency System (ACS) antennas. The ACS provides Telemetry, Tracking and Command as well as voice communications functions to and from the ISS and the Ku-Band Space-to-Ground Antenna System (SGANT), providing video and high-data-rate scientific data communications.
Representatives from Boeing and NASA presented this prestigious award to EMS in a ceremony at the Montreal facilities. The performance award is given annually to only one supplier per business category and recognizes outstanding performance by companies that provide products and services in support of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
"EMS Technologies' Space & Technology / Montreal has provided an invaluable service to the U.S.'s Human Space Flight Program," said John Elbon, Boeing NASA Systems vice president and program manager for the International Space Station. "As an international teammate, this award signifies the company's significant investment, and helps solidify Canada in the world's necessary role in exploring the universe."
Alan L. Haase, senior vice president and general manager of Space & Technology/Montreal, who received the award on behalf of EMS, said, "We are immensely pleased to have been singled out by Boeing, NASA's prime contractor for the International Space Station, as their top large business supplier. The technical excellence, product quality, and cost and schedule efficiency that we deliver as a matter of course on all of the work that we do has been recognized by the world's most pre-eminent space contractor and, for this, we are truly proud."
About the Boeing Company
Boeing NASA Systems is a component of the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems unit, one of the world's largest space and defense businesses. As the prime contractor, Boeing is responsible for design, development, construction and integration of the ISS and assisting NASA in operating the orbital outpost. Boeing built all of the major U.S. elements. NASA Systems is also responsible for integrating the systems, procedures, and components of 16 participating countries in this worldwide enterprise. The ISS is the world's largest venture into space to date. The finished, 470-ton structure will house a seven-astronaut crew, in 46,000 cubic feet of pressurized volume -- the size of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
About EMS Technologies, Inc.
EMS Technologies, Inc. is a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of space, airborne and terrestrial wireless solutions, and focuses its unique range of advanced technologies on the needs of broadband and mobile information users. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, employs approximately 1,600 people worldwide, and has manufacturing facilities in Atlanta, Ottawa, Montreal, and Brazil.
For more information, visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.ems-t.com.
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