FAA NATIONALLY CERTIFIES NEXT-GENERATION ATC SYSTEM.

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 1996--The Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the operational deployment of the Microprocessor Enroute Automated Radar Tracking System (Micro-EARTS), an advanced terminal and en route air traffic control (ATC) system developed by Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management, an operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT).

Micro-EARTS is the non-developmental item (NDI) basis for Lockheed Martin's solution for the FAA's Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) program.

The FAA certification process, which involved extensive tests and evaluations to establish the system's operational acceptability, was initiated by the FAA's December 1994 decision to use Micro-EARTS as the radar tracking system for the Oceanic Integrated Product Team. In making this decision, the FAA said, "The significantly improved processing capacity inherent in Micro-EARTS and its reliability, economy and commercial-off-the-shelf hardware are vivid examples of how future air traffic control automation systems will be built."

Micro-EARTS consists of field-proven ATC software functions in ANSI C hosted on commercial hardware, which provides an improved, more reliable national maintenance environment than the current EARTS. Micro-EARTS provides dual tracker adaptation and extensive hazard warning alert notification, including conflict alert, minimum safe altitude warning, Mode C intruder and approach path monitoring. Designed as a fail-safe system with redundant components, Micro-EARTS is certified to operate on multiple display configurations.

Micro-EARTS systems are installed at Nellis Air Force Base, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, San Juan CERAP, Fort Polk ARTS II Facility, White Sands Missile Range, Guam CERAP, and Honolulu CERAP, as well as the William J. Hughes Technical Center and the FAA Aeronautical Center. Additional FAA and DOD installations are planned through 1997. Most recently, Micro-EARTS has interfaced with the ARINC ADSATC automated dependent surveillance system gateway to receive GPS reporting information and provide controller pilot data link communication.

Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has over four decades of experience in designing, developing, installing and maintaining air traffic control systems for the United States, the United Kingdom and other international customers.

Lockheed Martin, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., is a highly diversified advanced technology company with annualized sales of approximately $30 billion. It has more than 190,000 employees worldwide.

CONTACT: Lockheed Martin

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