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== Harris Computer Systems Corporation ==
On October 7, 1994, Harris Computer Systems Corporation came into being, as a spinoff to Harris Corporation shareholders.<ref name="nyt-spinoff"/> There were some 480 employees who joined the new enterprise.<ref name="sent-spun"/> It had revenues of about $60 million,<ref>''High Technology Market Place Directory'' (Princeton Hightech Group, 1996), p. 97.</ref> and had earned about $2 million over the year prior.<ref name="sent-spun"/> Said John Hartley, the head of Harris Corporation: "This is a well-established, profitable business that we believe will best realize its full potential as a stand-alone public corporation."<ref name="njbiz"/> The CEO of the new company was Siegel, who said "this move will give the new company greater access to capital
The new company's business focus was on systems for [[real-time simulation]] and [[Simulation#Simulation in education and training|simulation for training]] and for [[Data acquisition|data acquisition and control]].<ref name="nyt-spinoff">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/30/business/company-news-harris-approves-spinoff-of-computer-systems-unit.html |title=Company News: Harris Approves Spinoff of Computer Systems Unit | agency=Bloomberg News |newspaper=The New York Times | date=September 30, 1994 | page=D3}}</ref> An additional focus was on [[Computer security|secure systems]].<ref name="signals-1994">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ig-AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Harris+Computer+Systems%22+spun+off&pg=RA6-PA41 | title=Trans-Atlantic Pact Spurs Processing Power, Security | magazine=Signal | date=January 1995 | author=CAR | pages=41–44 }}</ref> Its headquarters were those of the division prior, being in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]].<ref name="nyt-spinoff"/>
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