L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE), a division of L-3 Communications, announced today that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-Band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force.

Over the past two years, engineers at Edwards AFB and L-3 TE have been testing a down-conversion scheme ensuring optimum functionality with no degradation to existing performance. Edwards AFB recently added the C-Band frequencies and recommended a down-conversion scheme to the IRIG (Inter Range Instrumentation Group) Telemetry Standards. IRIG 106 is scheduled to be published in the next few months and is expected to define a scheme that uses TE’s architecture to ensure interoperability in aeronautical telemetry applications at member missile ranges. Once the document is published, L-3 TE plans to announce it has an IRIG standard method for handling C-Band down-conversion for ground receivers used throughout the world.

“This represents another successful Edwards AFB and L-3 partnership to provide the most cost effective technical solution for the U.S. Air Force,” said Terry Hamilton, L-3 TE’s vice president of Ground & Telecommunications Products.

To learn more about L-3 Telemetry-East, please visit the company’s website at L-3com.com/TE.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs approximately 63,000 people worldwide and is a prime contractor in C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems, aircraft modernization and maintenance, and government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of a broad range of electronic systems used on military and commercial platforms. The company reported 2010 sales of $15.7 billion To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company’s
website at 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,” “will,” “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.