Lucent Technologies Forms Advisory Board to Help Guide Strategic Development of Government Market Focus

Business Wire, Sept 14, 2004

WASHINGTON -- New Lucent Government Advisory Board comprised of a diverse body of former senior U.S. Government officials and policy makers

Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced the formation of an independent Government Advisory Board to guide Lucent with the strategic development of its growing presence in the federal market. The Lucent Government Advisory Board is comprised of a diverse body of former senior U.S. Government officials and policy makers, who will provide Lucent senior leadership with guidance and advice as Lucent continues to focus resources and expertise in this area.

"We are very excited and proud to have access to the insight and leadership of this team of extraordinarily high-profile, well-respected and distinguished experts in the area of our nation's infrastructure," said Rick Miller, senior vice president of Government Solutions for Lucent. "The Lucent Government Advisory Board will be an integral component of Lucent's decision-making process relating to its concentration on and relationship to the U.S. federal Government market."

The Lucent Government Advisory Board members are:

--Ruth A. David, president and chief executive officer of ANSER, an independent, not-for-profit, public-service research institution that provides research and analytic support on national and transnational issues. Dr. David also served as Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Central Intelligence Agency. While at the CIA, she served on numerous national committees and advisory bodies, including the National Science and Technology Council and the Committee on National Security. She has served in several additional leadership positions at the Sandia National Laboratories including Director of Advanced Information Technologies.

--Tillie K. Fowler is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Holland & Knight where she serves as chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, which advises the Secretary of Defense on issues central to strategic planning initiatives. Ms. Fowler also served a distinguished eight-year tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives where she served as the Vice Chairman of the Republican Conference, making her the high-ranking woman in the U.S. Congress upon her retirement in 2001. She also is a recipient of the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public service.

--John Fairfield - Lt. General John S. Fairfield is director of the Strategic Business Relationship Team at IBM. Gen Fairfield previously was a vice president, Strategic Market Integration, Sales and Marketing, Federal Sector at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and, vice president, Strategic Development and Integration at DynCorp before its acquisition by CSC. Gen Fairfield retired from the Air Force in January 1997 as deputy chief of staff, Communications and Information. During his 35 years in the Air Force, Gen Fairfield served as the vice commander of the Pacific Air Forces and as Principle Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (OSD, Acquisition) for Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces.

--James S. Gilmore, III, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia currently is a practicing attorney at the Washington, DC-based firm, Kelley Drye and Warren where he is the Chairman of the Homeland Security Practice Group. Since 1999, he has been Chairman of the Congressional Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction, a national panel established by Congress to assess federal, state and local governments' capability to respond to the consequences of a terrorist attack. Also known as the "Gilmore Commission", this Commission was influential in the formation of the Office of Homeland Security.

--John J. Hamre is president and chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) since January 2000. Prior to CSIS, he served as U.S. deputy secretary of defense and under secretary of defense (comptroller), where he was the principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation, presentation, and execution of the defense budget. As a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he was primarily responsible for the oversight and evaluation of procurement, research, and development programs; defense budget issues; and relations with the Senate Appropriations Committee.

--William Schneider, Jr. is president of International Planning Services, Inc., an international trade and finance advisory firm, and an Adjunct Fellow of the Hudson Institute. Dr. Schneider currently is the Chairman of the Defense Science Board in the U.S. Department of Defense. Formerly, Dr. Schneider served as Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, and has served as Chairman of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament and as a member of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (Rumsfeld Commission).