NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2006--L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its Telemetry-West (L-3 Telemetry-West) division has been selected to provide High Power Amplifiers (HPAs) to Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. (HTSI) in support of the U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network Contract (SCNC). After a rigorous selection process, this award has culminated in an HPA design that will serve the future commanding needs of the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) for many years to come.

The AFSCN is a network of two communications and operational control centers and multiple antennas located at nine sites worldwide. These ground stations are the vital communications link between the National Command Authorities and U.S. forces worldwide. Honeywell has competitively selected L-3 Telemetry-West to provide the multi-kilowatt HPAs. The new design provides for improved satellite command capabilities.

The SCNC program consolidates development, systems engineering, integration and sustainment functions into one contract for the AFSCN. Honeywell will replace the existing communications technologies that make up the ground network and tracking systems of the AFSCN with improved components and antenna systems, providing new capabilities to ensure the system is operational 24 hours a day.

"This award builds on the already strong relationship developed between the U.S. Air Force, Honeywell and L-3," said Glenn Flaherty, vice president of business development at L-3 Telemetry-West. "We are ecstatic to be working with Honeywell again to support the U.S. Air Force. This is a growth market for L-3 and the new SCNC award is expected to lead to other ground station HPA contracts."

L-3 Telemetry-West is the heritage supplier of the AFSCN Automated Remote Tracking Station (ARTS) HPAs now in service worldwide to support Space Ground Link System (SGLS) command capabilities. The new award will lead to development and production contracts to replace the ARTS HPAs with both SGLS and Unified S-Band (USB) command capability to allow expanded transmission into both L- and S-Band frequencies.

L-3 Telemetry-West leads the industry in producing a wide array of telemetry products, including SGLS and USB spaceborne command/telemetry transponders, as well as satellite command and control ground software that interfaces with the AFSCN ground network. These satellite telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) products all have a strong heritage in providing customers with highly effective mission solutions.

L-3 Telemetry-West is the world's premier provider of custom flight hardware and systems solutions for missile telemetry/flight termination and spacecraft TT&C, as well as tactical intelligence receivers and terrestrial HF and microwave radios. Additionally, L-3 Telemetry-West leads the telemetry and test industry in the design and manufacture of advanced real-time commercial-off-the-shelf ground hardware and software solutions for spacecraft command and control, satellite manufacturing and on-orbit operations, launch testing and monitoring, flight test, weapons test and development, surveillance and detection and general-purpose data acquisition. All solutions are offered with complete systems engineering and integration services and are backed by a global customer support organization. The company has more than 50 years of experience in telemetry and data acquisition technology and serves virtually every major aerospace organization in the world.

To learn more about L-3 Telemetry-West, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com/tw.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications is a leading provider of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, secure communications systems, aircraft modernization, training and government services. The company is a leading merchant supplier of a broad array of high technology products, including guidance and navigation, sensors, scanners, fuzes, data links, propulsion systems, simulators, avionics, electro optics, satellite communications, electrical power equipment, encryption, signal intelligence, antennas and microwave components. L-3 also supports a variety of Homeland Security initiatives with products and services. Its customers include the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, selected U.S. Government intelligence agencies and aerospace prime contractors.

To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com.

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