T²CAS™ RECEIVES FAA CERTIFICATION

Combined TAWS/TCAS Development Certifies On Schedule

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Steve Henden
Manager, Communications
ACSS, an L-3 Communications & Thales Company
623-445-7021

PHOENIX, February 12, 2003 – ACSS, an L-3 Communications & Thales Company, has received technical standard order authorization (TSOA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for T²CAS™, a combined terrain and traffic collision avoidance system. The T²CAS introduces a higher level of safety by increasing a pilot’s awareness to potential terrain hazards and basing its alerts and avoidance maneuvers on an aircraft’s actual ability to climb at a given moment.

The T²CAS TSOA represents the first certification of a development product for ACSS.

“To take our first development program – design, develop and now begin delivering the product to multiple aviation markets – and bring it in according to the same timeline we established a year and a half ago is nearly unheard of in our industry,” said Joe Hoffman, president of ACSS. “Our entire operation is proud of this tremendous achievement.”

ACSS expects to begin making deliveries to its launch customers beginning in May. The growing list of T²CAS customers includes Aeromexico, Federal Express, Northwest Airlines, the U.S. Customs Service, and Virgin Express, as well as several others to be announced shortly.

In addition to T²CAS’s ability to increase an operator’s situational awareness and provide avoidance maneuvers based on an aircraft’s actual performance capability, the combined TCAS (traffic alert and collision avoidance system) and TAWS (terrain awareness warning system) reduces weight, power consumption, space requirements, and wiring. The T²CAS line-replaceable unit (LRU) is the same as the TCAS 2000, which allows the more than 6,000 TCAS 2000 customers throughout the world to simply swap out the TCAS box for the new T²CAS and use existing power and wiring. Combining functions also lowers the total cost of ownership.

ACSS (Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC), an L-3 Communications & Thales Company, is a leader in safety avionics systems. ACSS products include the TCAS 2000 and TCAS 1500 traffic alert and collision avoidance systems, a family of Mode S transponders and the T²CAS, a combined traffic and terrain collision avoidance system. More than 8,000 units of ACSS' TCAS products are currently operating in commercial, corporate and military aircraft. Thales Avionics is the exclusive sales agent of ACSS products to the Commercial Air Transport market. To learn more about ACSS, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3com.com/acss.

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