Exelis Inc. is a global aerospace, defense, information and services company created in October 2011 as a result of the spinoff of ITT Corporation's defense business into an independent, publicly traded company.

The company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA and is led by CEO and President David F. Melcher. The Washington Post highlighted Exelis as a top company in the Washington, DC region in 2011.

The Deep Space Network (DSN) is a world-wide network of large antennas and communication facilities that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions.

It also performs radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe, and supports selected Earth-orbiting missions. DSN is part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Other similar networks include ESTRACK of the European Space Agency, the Soviet Deep Space Network, the Indian Deep Space Network, and the Chinese Deep Space Network.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) is an Orbiting Carbon Observatory planned to be launched in July 2014.

Its based on the original OCO mission (NASA) that failed to reaching injection orbit, on February 24, 2009, due to a launch vehicle anomaly.

OCO-2 is comprised of a single instrument that flies on a dedicated spacecraft. The instrument, consisting of three high resolution grating spectrometers, will acquire precise measurements of atmospheric CO2. The OCO-2 spacecraft bus, developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation, is primarily based on the LeoStar-2 bus design and architecture used for the OCO, Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), and Galaxy Explorer (GALEX) missions.

The Observatory will be launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a dedicated Delta II rocket in July 2014. The Observatory will acquire data in three different measurement modes. In Nadir Mode, the instrument views the ground directly below the spacecraft. In Glint Mode, the instrument tracks near the location where sunlight is directly reflected on the Earth's surface. Glint Mode enhances the instrument's ability to acquire highly accurate measurements, particularly over the ocean. In Target Mode, the instrument views a specified surface target continuously as the satellite passes overhead. Target Mode provides the capability to collect a large number of measurements over sites where ground based and airborne instruments also measure atmospheric CO2. The OCO-2 Science Team will compare Target Mode measurements with those acquired by ground-based and airborne instruments to validate OCO-2 mission data.

The Observatory has a planned operational life of 2 years.

The WASP System (Wallops Arc Second Pointer), currently under development in NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.,  is a NASA provided support system which can point telescopes on a balloon gondolas at inertial targets with arc-second accuracy.

WASP is intended to be a flexible system that can be used to support a variety of science-provided instruments and sensors to meet specific mission performance requirements. WASP is a highly stable, off-the-shelf-type system, that can accurately point  instruments and then track planetary targets as they moved in the solar system.

Marvell Technology Group, Limited, is a producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products. The company was founded in 1995 and has approximately 7,000 employees (as of Jan 2014).

Marvell's U.S. operating headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, and the company operates design centers in places including Canada, Europe, Israel, India, Singapore and China. Marvell is a fabless semiconductor company and ships more than one billion integrated circuits (known as "chips") per year. Its market segments include high volume storage, mobile and wireless, networking, consumer, and digital entertainment.

Fabless semiconductor Integrated digital and analog circuits.

DS2 (officially Diseño de Sistemas en Silicio S.A.), was a supplier of integrated circuits and software for power line communications.

The company was founded in 1998, and went out of business in 2010 after trying to expand into other home network technologies. Its technology was acquired by Marvell Tech.

Fabless semiconductor Integrated digital + analog design for power-line communications

Conform is a software for cross-platform GIS viewer, editor and analysis tool.

GameSim, a video vame, simulation and GIS company, launches a new version of the Geospatial visualization product, Conform, which adds support for rendering LIDAR, point cloud data.

Conform is a powerful, easy-to-use tool for processing your GIS data. Whether you are a new or experienced GIS user, you will find Conform a useful tool to view, edit and analyze your data. Drag and drop folders of data into Conform and it will automatically load all supported GIS formats (e.g., Shapefiles, DTED, GeoTIFFs, LIDAR, etc.). Got a new batch of data that you need to take a look at? It's as simple as dragging the root folder into Conform and let it handle the rest.

Built for Speed

Using modern game engine rendering techniques, Conform will parse and display large amounts of data in moments. Many GIS tools require users to create separate projects when loading GIS data from various geographic locations and formats. This is not required in Conform. Users can load all of their data into a single project and use the intuitive map window to view all of their data across the globe.

Chemistry and Camera complex (ChemCam) is a suite of remote sensing instruments on Mars for the Curiosity rover.

As the name implies, ChemCam is actually two different instruments combined as one: a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and a Remote Micro Imager (RMI) telescope. The purpose of the LIBS instrument is to provide elemental compositions of rock and soil, while the RMI will give ChemCam scientists high-resolution images of the sampling areas of the rocks and soil that LIBS targets. The LIBS instrument can target a rock or soil sample from up to 7 m (23 ft) away, vaporizing a small amount of it with about 50 to 75 5-nanosecond pulses from a 1067 nm infrared laser and then observing the spectrum of the light emitted by the vaporized rock.

ChemCam has the ability to record up to 6,144 different wavelengths of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light. Detection of the ball of luminous plasma will be done in the visible, near-UV and near-infrared ranges, between 240 nm and 800 nm. The first initial laser testing of the ChemCam by Curiosity on Mars was performed on a rock, N165 ("Coronation" rock), near Bradbury Landing on August 19, 2012.

The ChemCam team expects to take approximately one dozen compositional measurements of rocks per day.

STARCS (Sjöland & Thyselius Aerodynamic Research Centre AB) is a privately owned and independent consultancy company offering services in three principal business areas:

• Aeronautics,
• Space,
• Energy.

Our expertise cover all aspects of aerodynamics within and across these areas, especially experimental aerodynamics, flight mechanics and measurement technique. We perform wind tunnel and turbo machine testing, wind tunnels and rig design, consultancy and investigations.

STARCS provide services for the whole aerodynamic development cycle, including project management: From design and manufacture of models and test hardware to wind tunnel testing and computer simulations to analysis and reporting of experimental and computational data.

STARCS holds state-of-the-art facilities aimed at spacecraft aerodynamics and rocket propulsion and plays an active part in the development of the European space program.

GeoNorth is an Information Technology Solutions Provider specializing in GIS, Remote Sensing solutions, Custom Application Development, Web Design/Development, Database and Mobile Applications. GeoNorth provides IT solutions to Federal, State and Local government, the Oil & Gas Industry, Utilities, Natural Resources companies, and Native and Private organizations worldwide