Operations
Headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, the company also has manufacturing facilities in Portland, Massachusetts, Sweden and France. Worldwide, FLIR employs in excess of 1,900 people, with more than 1,200 located in the United States. As of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008, FLIR had net profits of $203.7 million on revenues of $1.077 billion. Earl R. Lewis has been the president, CEO, and chairman of the company since 2000. The company operates three divisions; one for government business (Government Systems), one for commercial vision customers (Commercial Vision Systems, or CVS), and one for thermography (Thermography). With $569 million in annual revenue, Government Systems is the largest of the three.
The Thermography division focuses more on analytical equipment that has uses in both the industrial and commercial fields. Example products include hand-held cameras used for home energy audits and veterinary thermal imaging. The commercial vision portion of the company manufactures products from infrared sensors to infrared news cameras for use on aircraft. Markets include private security and the automotive industry. FLIR's largest division, Government Systems, sells products to a variety of government entities with products ranging through weapon sights to perimeter surveillance systems to low light cameras to laser illuminators. Products developed not merely for military applications are also sold to commercial customers, sometimes through CVS.
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