Goodrich Electro-Optical Systems retains the core technology of optics upon which the company was founded in the late 1930s. As a result, our experience base in large optics production is broad, extensive, and varied. Our fabrication and metrology infrastructure is in place and is capable of producing up to 4 meter class optics of any geometry. Some of the company's major contributions include:

• Advanced Mirror System Demonstrator (AMSD), a program to design, build and demonstrate a figure-controlled (adaptive) mirror system architecture based on a thin, light-weighted facesheet supported through an array of actuators on a stiff, passive reaction structure thermally matched to the facesheet;

• Chandra X-ray Observatory Optics, four nested concentric, cylindrical mirror pairs that was launched in July 1999. The mirrors are the largest and most precise ever built, having an equivalent area of approximately 18 square meters and final-polished to an extreme smoothness (2 to 3 Angstroms);

• Hubble Space Telescope (HST), a NASA Phase C/D contract to design, build, test, and deliver the complete Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA)/Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) for the HST. It included systems engineering, systems analysis, interface definition and control, hardware and software design and development, qualification, acceptance and spacecraft integration, launch and mission operations support;

• Large Active Mirror Program (LAMP), a pioneering program in the development and qualification of technologies for large, active, segmented mirrors. Designed to be space-qualifiable, LAMP is a 4-meter diameter, f/1.25 parabolic mirror composed of one inner segment and six identical outer segments;

• Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (SOAR), an active 4.3 meter diameter primary mirror assembly, and secondary and tertiary mirror assemblies for the SOAR Telescope located in Chile.