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Company Profile

L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (L-3 Holdings), through its wholly owned subsidiary, L-3 Communications Corporation, provides intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems; secure communications systems; and training and government services, as well as aircraft modernization products for aerospace and defense platforms. Its ISR products include signals intelligence and communications intelligence systems, which provide to the warfighter in real-time the ability to collect and analyze unknown electronic signals from command centers, communication nodes, and air defense systems for real-time situation awareness and response. The company’s secure, high data rate communications systems for reconnaissance and surveillance applications are used in communication, command and control, intelligence gathering, and space systems. These products are offered to the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Government intelligence agencies. In addition, L-3 Holdings provides teaching and training services, maintenance, and logistics support for training devices; communication systems support and engineering services; and marksmanship training systems and services. It offers these services to aircrews, navigators, mission operators, gunners, and maintenance technicians for various platforms, including military fixed and rotary wing aircraft, air vehicles, and various ground vehicles, as well as computer-based training systems, primarily to the DoD, U.S. Government intelligence agencies, and allied foreign governments. The company’s aircraft modernization products and services comprise specialized aircraft modernization, upgrade, maintenance and logistics support services; quick response field teams; cockpit voice and flight data recorders; traffic alert and collision avoidance systems; terrain awareness warning systems; advanced cockpit avionics products; and ruggedized custom cockpit displays. These products and services are sold primarily to the DoD and the Canadian Department of National Defense. Further, the company provides a range of specialized products, including naval warfare products, security systems, telemetry and navigation products, sensors, training devices, premium fuzing products, and microwave components. It sells these products primarily to the DoD, allied foreign militaries, and the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration. L-3 Holdings was organized in 1997 and is based in New York City.

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