L-3 Flight Tests Miniature Common Data Link Terminal

L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today the successful flight test of a 1 lb., Common Data Link (CDL) compliant, software-programmable terminal on a small unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The small, fully ruggedized system, including a digital modem, RF electronics and amplifiers, transmitted full motion video at 45 Mbps and 10.71 Mbps to three different CDL ground stations. The transceiver, flown in Salt Lake City, Utah and witnessed by representatives from the U.S. Air Force, Army and Marine Corps, makes no interoperability compromises to achieve its revolutionary small size. To date, L-3 has provided over 500 CDL terminals to a variety of manned and unmanned platforms, providing armed forces worldwide with reliable, high capacity communications. "The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability enabled by Common Data Link standard equipment saves lives,” said Susan Opp, President and General Manager of L-3 Communication Systems-West (L-3 CS-West). "This latest cost and size reduction engineered by L-3 CS-West will inject CDL onto more platforms, extending critical ISR capabilities to a broader segment of our armed forces.” Additional Ground tests witnessed by Government representatives at the Surface/Aviation Interoperability Laboratory (SAIL), Patuxent River Naval Air Station, showed the terminal interoperates with two different Naval CDL surface terminals manufactured by different vendors. L-3 CS-West, located in Salt Lake City, UT, is the preeminent supplier of wideband data links and mobile surface and airborne satellite terminals for military applications in the world. L-3 CS-West has over 40 years of experience in providing robust, mobile microwave, satellite terminals and wideband data links for airborne platforms, including manned and unmanned platforms, operating in a variety of environments. 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. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995 Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements. Statements that are predictive in nature, that depend upon or refer to events or conditions or that include words such as "expects,” "anticipates,” "intends,” "plans,” "believes,” "estimates,” "could” and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements set forth above involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any such statement, including the risks and uncertainties discussed in the company’s Safe Harbor Compliance Statement for Forward-looking Statements included in the company’s recent filings, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.