SAN DIEGO, CA, January 29, 2008 – L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that the Navy awarded the company a sole-source Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The contract is to acquire and integrate its VideoScout® video exploitation and management components into the Marine Corps Tactical Exploitation Groups (TEG) Remote Workstation System, which supports Operation Iraq Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism. The TEG is the primary tactical imagery exploitation system in the Marine Corps, supporting the highly mobile Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF).

VideoScout will provide imagery analysts with a more effective means to exploit, map, archive, search, retrieve and disseminate critical video and telemetry data received from a variety of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sensors and INTEL networks. This helps improve mission planning, mission execution, targeting, battle damage assessment, and post-mission analysis.

“This latest contract continues our working relationship with the Marine Corps, which first deployed our VideoScout laptop systems for use in theater by the MEF in 2005,” said Larry Vernec, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Business Development at L-3 Advanced Products & Design. “By integrating VideoScout into mobile workstations, field personnel can quickly exploit, manage and disseminate imagery, video and metadata from any source, providing real-time shared situational awareness across the battle space. This quick dissemination of critical video assets enhances operational planning and execution, particularly for mobile operations where decisions are made utilizing the most up-to-date data available.”

The Navy has issued its first purchase order for VideoScout Flex, which includes both video/image processing hardware and video exploitation/management software components designed for easy integration into existing computer systems. VideoScout Flexs software component provides an intuitive user interface with “point and click” icon-based navigation for easy access to VideoScouts video exploitation and management features. VideoScout allows users to easily capture, display, annotate, clip, search, retrieve, image-enhance, stream, store, and transmit video, clips, segments, and images with associated metadata, while preserving the original video files. Key video and images can be disseminated to others for immediate action, or to provide “lessons learned” for mission review and future mission planning. VideoScouts interoperability also enables location and telemetry data to seamlessly connect to mapping applications such as FalconView™ providing a complete visual context for the video..

VideoScouts Windows®-based user environment provides interoperability with other Windows applications, including common mission critical applications such as Ground Control Station and targeting software. The systems video/image processing board performs the compute-intensive video processing functions to off-load the systems main CPU, providing more capacity for multiple applications and improved system performance.

To learn more about L-3 Communications Advanced Products & Design, please visit the companys web site at www.L-3Com.com/apd.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs over 63,000 people worldwide and is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, systems and subsystems. The company reported 2006 sales of $12.5 billion.

To learn more about L-3, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com.

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