Aviation Week's Homeland Security & Defense Launches Jan. 30; News and Intelligence Resource Serves Broad Range of Industry and Government Decision-Makers.

Business Editors

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2002

Aviation Week's Homeland Security & Defense, a print and digital news and intelligence service for readers in industry and government, will begin publication January 30.

The new weekly service, based in Washington, DC, will be available to subscribers via e-mail, web and print in a concise newsletter format. Homeland Security & Defense is the newest component of a company-wide multimedia business initiative Aviation Week launched last October to serve the growing news, information and intelligence demands of professionals involved in enhancing homeland security.

Coverage will include news, analysis and intelligence on programs, policies, events and products of interest to both industry and government, such as:

- How the government is being organized at the federal, state and local levels

- Government budgets, programs and grants

- The White House Office of Homeland Security and other U.S. government
agencies

- What industry is, or could be, doing to serve the security needs of
government and the private sector

- State and local fire, emergency response, urban search and rescue, public
health, law enforcement and investigative agencies

- Corporate and industrial security, including cyberterrorism defenses

- Aviation and other transportation security systems

- Potential tools such as unmanned aerial vehicles, robots, special vehicles
and other ground equipment, command, control and communications systems, and
nonlethal weapons with homeland security applications

- Selected new products and services

For the full release and more information, go to http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/media/news/2002/01/20020123b.html

With nearly 50 products and services and an audience of millions of professionals and enthusiasts, the Aviation Week division of The McGraw-Hill Companies is the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation and aerospace industry. The cornerstone of the Aviation Week portfolio is Aviation Week & Space Technology, the world's leading aviation and aerospace industry magazine, covering technology, business and operations in the commercial, military and space markets for more than 104,000 paid subscribers in 130 countries. The group's web portal, AviationNow.com, offers the industry's most reliable news, information and features.

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