Anteon Leads Formation of Warfighter FOCUS Alliance

Business Wire, Nov 28, 2005

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Anteon (NYSE:ANT), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC), and Saab (Stockholm:SAABB.ST) announced today a joint effort to provide a fully integrated capability tailored to address U.S. Army simulation and training requirements. The resulting entity, the Warfighter FOCUS (Field Operations CUstomer Support) Alliance, combines the complementary strengths of these companies - focused on leveraging all aspects of simulation and training in support of American soldiers worldwide.

"Over the past few years, the Army has found it difficult to manage separate support contracts for different simulation and training systems that complement each other," said Larry Retta, senior group vice president, simulation and training at Anteon. "In recognition of this fact, Anteon worked closely with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Saab to assemble the Warfighter FOCUS Alliance." Anteon currently supports the Army's constructive training technology, and recently received contract awards worth up to $350 million from the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) to design and install live training ranges and digital multipurpose battle area complexes.

The prime objective of Warfighter FOCUS Alliance (WFA) is to bring together four leading simulation and training system suppliers into one convenient and efficient contract vehicle for current and future U.S. Army simulation and training requirements. This new alliance offers the U.S. Army the availability of one entity with the capability to support all three simulation and training disciplines - live, virtual, and constructive. As the suppliers of most Army training systems, the members of the WFA - Anteon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Saab - possess a detailed understanding of live, virtual, and constructive simulation and training support needs.

"By working together as a part of the Alliance, we will be able to provide an integrated team option that is more efficient by eliminating redundancies and allowing the leading providers of live, virtual, and constructive support to leverage cross-functional capabilities," continued Retta. "The operational efficiencies gained from the alliance will ensure that projects are completed at lower costs, and streamlined contract management will allow the Army to focus more contract dollars on "hands-on" work, and less on management."

About Anteon

Anteon, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is a leading information technology company serving the U.S. Federal government and international customers. Anteon designs, integrates, maintains, and upgrades state-of-the-art systems for national defense, intelligence, homeland security, and other high priority government missions. Anteon provides numerous government clients with the systems integration, strategy and program management, systems engineering, operations services, and simulation and training skills necessary to manage the development and operations of their mission critical systems. The Company was founded in 1976 and currently employs over 9,500 employees in more than 100 offices worldwide. Anteon consistently ranks among the top information technology integrators based on independent surveys, and has been named to the Forbes List of the 400 Best Big Companies in 2005, earning distinction on the Forbes Platinum List. Anteon is listed on the Standards & Poor's MidCap 400 Index. For more information, visit www.anteon.com.

About Lockheed Martin

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 135,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2004 sales of $35.5 billion.

About Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defense company headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. Northrop Grumman provides technologically advanced, innovative products, services and solutions in systems integration, defense electronics, information technology, advanced aircraft, shipbuilding and space technology. With more than 125,000 employees, and operations in all 50 states and 25 countries, Northrop Grumman serves U.S. and international military, government and commercial customers.

About Saab

Saab is one of the world's leading high-technology companies, with its main operations focusing on defense, aviation and space. Saab covers a broad spectrum of competencies and capabilities in systems integration. Saab has a total of 12,000 employees. Saab Training Systems develops, manufactures and markets advanced military training equipment, such as laser simulator systems, instrumented training systems and target equipment, and provides service and maintenance for training systems.

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