Below is the entire list of ‘News Releases’ by Harris Corporation (based in Melbourne, FL) using the filter ‘FAA’ and copied on 11/11/2016. All titles are linked to the Harris webpages for each news release.
The ‘About’ pages at the Harris website state that Harris acquired Exelis in 2015. A bit of further online research shows Exelis (based in Tysons Corner, VA) was created in 2011, spun off from the defense business at ITT Corporation (based in White Plains, NY) as a global aerospace, defense, information and services company. So, the lineage is older corporation ITT into Exelis into Harris, and a very long federal contract history.
The WikiLeaks webpage for ITT is a jaw-dropper, with references to decades of corruption, participation in South American coups, etc. Indeed, at the time this aiREFORM reference webpage was created, the Wikipedia page for Harris included this note: “In January 2015, Wired Magazine ranked Harris Corporation—tied with U.S. Marshals Service—as the number two threat to privacy and communications on the Internet.”
The News Releases below begin in 1997, so it appears most of these were originally ITT or Exelis News Releases.