L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation Awarded Contract by Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2002

L-3 Communications (NYSE:LLL) announced today that L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation, the new name for Emergent Government Services Group recently acquired by L-3, has received a contract from the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) to develop and conduct a high-level seminar exercise.

The exercise, dubbed "Sooner Spring", will test and evaluate Oklahoma state plans to deal with biological terrorism. Governor Frank Keating will lead his staff, including senior emergency service and public health officials, and representatives from other key agencies in the exercise on April 12th in Oklahoma City.

This event, made possible by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, is a prototype for validating state and local plans nationally. Lessons learned from Sooner Spring will assist state and local governments across the nation in preparing for possible biological terrorism attacks.

"We are pleased to provide this valuable seminar to the state of Oklahoma. Having worked on preparedness exercises for the United States military and government agencies for more than 18 years, we believe this has the potential to be a critical tool at the state level as well as at a national level," said Ron Oxley, president of L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation. "In the last four months, we have, as a public service at no charge, distributed more than 400 copies of our 'Bio-Terrorism Readiness & Response' reference handbook to the leadership of various state, county, city and local governments. We believe this publication, and the results from this exercise, can facilitate the validation of existing plans and can act as an accelerator for those entities that are just beginning their bio-terrorism planning."

L-3 Communications Analytics Corporation seminar games are used to validate existing plans, as well as to generate foundational elements for new plans, in combating terrorism. The National budget for Homeland Security is more than $19 billion in 2002 and is expected to increase to $37 billion in 2003. For 2002, the budget for Bio-terrorism Preparedness alone in the fifty states exceeds $1.1 billion according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

L-3 Analytics staff have been leaders in gaming terrorism response operations since the early 1980s and developed the first eight games for the Interagency Terrorism Response Awareness Program (I-TRAP) in the 1990s.

The Oklahoma City National MIPT is dedicated to preventing and reducing 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; space science data systems; and high end consulting (including executive planning and solutions tools such as seminar games). It has been a leader in gaming terrorist response operations since 1984, providing services from community level to the highest levels of the U.S. Government.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications is a leading merchant supplier of 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 U.S. government intelligence agencies, aerospace prime contractors and commercial telecommunications and wireless customers.

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