LGS Officially Starts Operation and Appoints Senior Leadership Team to Serve U.S. Government Community.

VIENNA, Va. -- LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S. Government community, today announced it was fully operational and serving its customers.

LGS, headquartered in Vienna, Va., and with offices in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey and North Carolina, was created by joining the Lucent and Alcatel Government business units and Bell Labs Government. LGS is the sole sales and contracting channel for all classified and unclassified business contracted from U.S. federal agencies and departments, both military and civilian.

Reporting to LGS CEO Ron Iverson and COO/CTO Dave Bishop are a talented team of people representing the deep government and industry expertise of the three organizations that combined to create LGS. They include:

* Dan Bigbie, Vice President Sales & Business Development

* Edward C. Bursk, Chief Marketing Officer

* John D'Amore, Chief Financial Officer

* Edward M. Eldridge Jr., Director of Operations

* Michael D. Garson, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

* Michael J. Geller, Vice President of Products and Technology

* Kevin L. Kelly, Chief Strategist

* Theresa J. Quallich, SPHR, CCP, Director of Human Resources

* Andrew D. Walker, Chief Security Officer

For more complete background on the LGS leadership team visit www.lgsinnovations.com/management.

About LGS

LGS designs and delivers Transformed Communications and R&D-based technology solutions to the U.S. government community. Leveraging the world-class R&D of Bell Labs and innovation of Alcatel-Lucent, with global reach and expertise, LGS challenges itself to solve the unsolvable and deliver secure, reliable, standards-based solutions to its customers. For more information about LGS visit www.LGSinnovations.com.