L-3 Communications' Analytics Corporation Releases Final Report of Groundbreaking Series of Bioterrorism Exercises.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2002

L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that its Analytics division has completed the final report on the groundbreaking series of bioterrorism response exercises called Sooner Spring, which is being released by the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT).

Sooner Spring's executive-level tabletop exercise component was designed and facilitated by L-3 Analytics Corporation and developed under a contract awarded by MIPT and funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

Sooner Spring helped Oklahoma evaluate its ongoing efforts to prepare for bioterrorism. Governor Frank Keating led his staff, including senior emergency service and public health officials, and representatives from other key agencies in the April 12th event in Oklahoma City. The state-level executive tabletop exercise demonstrated the unique characteristics of bioterrorism, how state and local response plans can be enhanced, and how critical decision-making processes can be exercised. Lessons learned from this exercise could assist communities across the nation in preparing to respond to future attacks of biological terrorism, and other forms of public health emergencies.

The report can be accessed at MIPT's website at www.MIPT.org, the State of Oklahoma Department of Health http://www.health.state.ok.us/, and from L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation at www.L3com-analytics.com. The points of view in this document are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the U.S. Department of Justice or MIPT.

"We were very pleased with Sooner Spring and the invaluable lessons learned from it," said Ray Ross, president of L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation. "Having worked on preparedness exercises for the United States military and government agencies for more than 18 years, we believe that these exercises are a critical tool for enhancing preparedness at the local, state, and national levels. Not only can these exercises facilitate the validation of existing plans, but also they can serve as a catalyst for those entities that are still developing their own bioterrorism plans. We take pride in our contribution to Homeland Security, and hope that the benefits of Sooner Spring will be extended to jurisdictions throughout the United States."

L-3 Analytics executive-level exercises are used to validate existing plans, as well as to generate foundational elements for new plans, in combating terrorism. L-3 Analytics has been a leader in analyzing and exercising terrorism response operations since the 1980s, providing services from community level to the highest levels of the U.S. Government. It developed the Interagency Terrorism Response Awareness Program (I-TRAP) in the 1990s, as well as San Antonio's "Alamo Alert", the United States' first community-level bioterrorism exercise to deal with the challenges of smallpox, held in early 2001.

MIPT is dedicated to preventing and deterring terrorism and mitigating its effects. Originally incorporated on September 23, 1999, MIPT grew out of the desire of the survivors and families of the Murrah Federal Building bombing of April 19, 1995 to have a living memorial. The Institute honors that desire by doing what it can to prevent other cities from suffering the losses and grief that Oklahoma City experienced. Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Dennis Reimer leads MIPT.

L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation, based in Vienna, Virginia, specializes in command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) engineering; modeling, simulation, and analysis; and high end consulting (including executive-level planning and exercises).

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications is a leading merchant supplier of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) products, 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.

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