L-3 Awarded Contract for United Kingdom Project LISTENER

(New York, October 23, 2007) -- L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that it has been awarded a contract for the Assessment Phase of Project LISTENER for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Project LISTENER integrates sensor products in order to provide actionable intelligence against selected targets and to achieve interoperability between U.K. ISTAR assets and U.S. and Coalition systems and networks. LISTENER leverages the experience of L-3's Network Centric Collaborative Targeting (NCCT) program, which networks Command and Control (C(2)) and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets to dramatically improve target location accuracy, timeliness and combat identification for the war fighter.


The Assessment Phase is a $2 million (GBP 1 million), 10-month engineering effort focused on risk reduction and solution definition. L-3 was one of two preferred bidders for this phase of the program. Main Gate approval is expected in 2009 for follow-on demonstration and manufacturing through 2015. The LISTENER capability is expected to remain in service until approximately 2035.

"Project LISTENER is blazing the trail for U.K. network-enabled capability," said Bob Drewes, President of L-3's Integrated Systems Group. "It takes advantage of our success in fielding the Network Centric Collaborative Targeting capability, modified for U.K. collection, processing, dissemination, and security context."

L-3 will be prime contractor for the effort, providing program management, airborne platform integration, and systems engineering for requirements development and test and evaluation. The company leads the KAIROS Consortium, a team which includes U.K. partner companies QinetiQ (land and sea platform integration, system architecture, technology development, training and human factors) and LogicaCMG (integrated logistics support, security and communications). L-3 has committed to perform at least 60 percent of the LISTENER effort in the U.K., and has set up a LISTENER project office in Tewkesbury, near the MOD customer.

Ron Cook, Vice President of L-3's London Operations, added, "L-3 has assembled a top-flight team with QinetiQ and LogicaCMG, two of the U.K.'s leading firms in Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, and Reconnaissance (ISTAR). The L-3 solution combines proven performance and a sovereign solution."

Source : L-3 Communications