ACSS BUILDS ON SUITE OF AVIONICS AVAILABLE
THROUGH GLOBAL DEALER NETWORK

Authorized Dealers Can Offer Corporate Flight Departments and Business Jet Operators
Select Products From L-3 Display Systems And Thales Avionics

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

ORLANDO, Sept. 10, 2002 – ACSS, an L-3 Communications & Thales Company, is increasing the number of products offered to its global network of authorized dealers. In addition to ACSS-brand products, such as the T2CAS? (Terrain and Traffic Collision Avoidance System), the TCAS 2000 traffic alert and collision warning system and Mode S transponders, ACSS will now offer dealers select products from L-3 Communications and Thales Avionics, the two parent companies of the ACSS joint venture.

From L-3 Communications Display Systems
ACSS dealers will now be able to offer L-3 Communications Display Systems’ SuperSet family of cockpit display products. The SuperSet 6.4 is a multi-function display (MFD) that meets a wide range of cockpit traffic, terrain, and radar display requirements for commercial aviation. High resolution coupled with outstanding optical performance, provides unsurpassed performance under extreme sunlight, nighttime, or off-angle viewing to meet the demanding requirements of today's cockpit environments. The design flexibility of the SuperSet 6.4 MFD assures avionics customers of future growth via software upgrades.

From Thales Avionics
ACSS dealers will now be able to offer Thales Avionics’ Integrated Electronic Standby Indicator (IESI), Jetsat Aero-I satcom, Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), Multi-Port Printer and Extended Quick Access Recorder (EQAR) to business jet customers all over the world.

Thales Avionics’ Electronic Standby Instrument incorporates altimeter, airspeed and attitude indication functions in a single line-replaceable unit (LRU). With this three-in-one instrument, operators will have enhanced safety and faster reaction time for emergency situations.

Thales Avionics’ lightweight Jetsat Aero-I satcom solution provides full cabin communications (voice, fax and data) capability via five superior quality communication channels.

The Emergency Locator Transmitter features pinpoint positioning for aircraft in distress situations.

The Extended Quick Access Recorder, based on rewritable optical disk technology, offers greater storage capacity and higher data integrity and delivers flight data analysis from raw data.

ACSS’s joint distribution network with Thales and L-3 Communications will provide corporate flight operations with a greater variety of products.

ACSS (Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems), 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, the T2CAS, a combined traffic and terrain collision avoidance system, and MASS, an enhanced TCAS system for military operations. More than 8,000 units of ACSS’s TCAS products are operating in commercial, corporate and military aircraft. To learn more about ACSS, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3com.com/acss.

Headquartered in Velizy (France), Thales Avionics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thales, is the European leader and world-renowned partner in avionics and cabin electronics and a world leader in professional electronics for civil and defense markets. To learn more about Thales Avionics, please visit the company's web site at www.thales-avionics.com.

L-3 Communications Display Systems specializes in the design, development and manufacture of display systems for the world's most demanding applications. Their product line includes a wide variety of displays and processors available to meet a multitude of system architectures for airborne, shipboard and ground-based applications. To learn more about L-3 Display Systems, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com/displays.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications is a leading merchant supplier of secure communications systems and products, avionics and ocean products, training products, microwave components and telemetry, instrumentation, space and wireless products. Its customers include the Department of Defense, selected US government intelligence agencies, aerospace prime contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers. To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements set forth above involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any such statement, including the risks and uncertainties discussed in the company's Safe Harbor Compliance Statement for Forward-looking Statements included in the company's recent filings, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q, with the Securities and Exchange Commission.