EADS North America Announces Appointment of Vice President Export Controls and Licensing; Dennis Burnett brings government and industry expertise to EADS.

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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2004

EADS North America announced that Dennis Burnett has joined as Vice President of Export Controls and Licensing. In this newly established position, Mr. Burnett will have responsibility for the full scope of legal matters related to export controls. Mr. Burnett will report to the Chief Operating Officer of EADS North America and will be located in the Washington D.C. offices.

EADS North America is the U.S. holding company for EADS, second largest aerospace and defense company in the world. Ralph Crosby, Chairman and CEO, and a member of the EADS Executive Committee, said: "I am pleased to welcome Dennis to our growing team of professionals at EADS North America. His extensive knowledge of export controls, licensing and regulation will be valuable to our efforts as we sustain our growth and evolution into an integrated U.S. company -- both through the application of EADS capabilities and through a strategy of mergers, acquisition, and partnering. EADS continues to lead the way in presenting transatlantic business opportunities, and Dennis will be integrally involved in this process."

Since 1984, Burnett has served as an outside legal consultant to EADS and to its predecessor companies. In addition to providing commercial, corporate and general regulatory advice as a partner with Pierson & Burnett L.L.P, Mr. Burnett also served as a principal consultant and advisor on U.S. export policy and licensing issues related to the reorganization of EADS Space, the merger of EADS guided missile business units, and the SOSTAR, TerraSAR-X, LFK, Eurocopter, Eurofighter, A400M and Airtanker programs. He also has worked closely with Airbus to resolve export-licensing issues related to U.S. military parts and components in Airbus civil aircraft.

Dennis Burnett is well known in the aerospace community. In addition to EADS, he has also served as a legal advisor to Sea Launch, Lockheed Martin Intersputnik, EarthWatch, General Dynamics and the China Orient Satellite Corporation. He also was an advisor to and part of the negotiating team of the Russian Space Agency for NASA's first procurement of Russian hardware for the International Space Station.

Mr. Burnett has experience working with industry leaders and entrepreneurial firms in the satellite telecommunication and terrestrial wireless industries. He served as General Counsel and Secretary of Omininet, which developed the Omnitracs frequency-hopping spread spectrum messaging and position location service that was deployed by Eutelsat in Europe. He was principal legal advisor for the development of a European-wide 38 GHz wireless leased lines business for Advance Radio Telecom, and General Counsel and Secretary of Global Radio, S.A. a digital audio radio satellite service start-up in Luxembourg. Most recently, he was President of Pentriad, Inc. a broadband HEO satellite system applicant before the FCC.

Dennis Burnett is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Nebraska where he earned his Bachelor of Science and Law degrees in 1970 and 1973 respectively. Mr. Burnett is the author of numerous articles related to U.S. export controls and international legal licensing issues. Mr. Burnett is a member of the International Institute of Air and Space Law, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Washington Space Business Roundtable, and the American Astronautical Society and the Society for International Affairs.

About EADS North America

EADS North America is the holding company for the North American activities of EADS, the second largest aerospace and defense company in the world. As a leader in all sectors of defense and homeland security, EADS North America and its parent company, EADS, contribute over $6 billion annually to the U.S. economy, and support more than 100,000 American jobs. With cities and the District of Columbia, EADS North America offers a broad array of advanced solutions to with ten operating units in over 35 cities its customers in the commercial, homeland security, aerospace and defense markets across the U.S.

EADS North America Subsidiaries: Access Research Corporation (ARC), Reston, Va.; ARC Information Assurance Institute, Reston, Va.; American Eurocopter, Grand Prairie, Tx. and Columbus, Miss.; EADS Aeroframe Services, Lake Charles, La.; EADS CASA North America,, Chantilly, Va.; EADS Sogerma Barfield, Miami, Fla.; EADS Socata Aircraft, Pembroke Pines, Fl.; EADS Supply & Services, Rockville, Md.; EADS TELECOM North America, Frisco, Tx.; Fairchild Controls Corporation, Frederick, Md.; TYX, Reston, Va.

About EADS

EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services. In 2002, EADS generated revenues of EUR 29.9 billion and employed a workforce of more than 100,000. The EADS Group includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the world's largest helicopter supplier Eurocopter, and the joint venture MBDA, the second largest missile producer in the global market. EADS is the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium, is the prime contractor for the Ariane launcher, develops the A400M military transport aircraft and is the largest industrial partner for the European satellite navigation system Galileo.

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