United Industrial’s AAI Corporation Wins $8.6 Million Order from Royal Australian Navy for Training and Support Center Upgrades for Guided Missile Frigates

HUNT VALLEY, Maryland, October 1, 2007 — United Industrial Corporation (NYSE: UIC) announced today that its AAI Corporation subsidiary has received orders totaling $19.9 million from the U.S. Army for production of 613 additional One System remote video terminals (OSRVTs) and 208 extended-range mobile directional antenna systems (MDASs).

            The contract has options for an additional 1,517 OSRVT production units and 411 MDASs with a total potential contract value of more than $73.6 million. Including the new order, a total of 930 OSRVT production units and 355 MDASs have been purchased by the U.S. Army.

            OSRVTs are small, mobile, intelligence-gathering systems capable of delivering live video and telemetry data to warfighters from an array of unmanned and manned aircraft systems operating across a multi-service, intelligence-sharing, interoperability network.   

            Using OSRVTs, warfighters simultaneously receive live video and positional data integrated on their hand-held video terminals. A video “footprint” and icons identify aggressor and “friendly” units, vehicles, facilities, landscape, and other features that are overlaid on a dynamic, live geo-location map.

            The intelligence makes possible swift decisionmaking, target selection, and response. Extended-range antennas enable OSRVT systems to meet mission range requirements with reception up to 80 kilometers.

            “OSRVT has become an extremely important, mission-critical, intelligence-gathering asset that links data-gathering technologies in the air to warfighters with boots on the ground in any number of battlespace scenarios,” said Steven E. Reid, vice president of AAI’s unmanned aircraft systems division.

            “OSRVT integrates transparently with a multitude of manned and unmanned aircraft, including Air Force and Navy assets, to provide immediate, real-time situational awareness and targeting information to combat units on the ground,” Reid pointed out.

 

In addition to being fielded currently with the U.S. Army in Iraq, OSRVT systems will operate with the first Shadow® 200 tactical unmanned aircraft systems (TUAS) to be deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps this fall.   The Marine Corps announced earlier this year that it was replacing its Pioneer UAS systems with the newer, combat-proven Shadows.   

            

            AAI has been a global leader in tactical unmanned aircraft systems and network centric intelligence-gathering technologies over the past three decades. The company’s Shadow system is the U.S. Army’s premier tactical UAS, deployed for more than four years in Iraq, as well as in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

 

United Industrial Corporation designs, produces, and supports aerospace and defense systems through its wholly owned subsidiary, AAI Corporation, and AAI Corporation’s direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, AAI Services Corporation, Aerosonde Pty Ltd, Aerosonde North America Incorporated, ESL Defence Limited, McTurbine Inc., and Symtx, Inc. Its high-technology products and services include unmanned aircraft systems, training and simulation systems, automated aerospace test and maintenance equipment, armament systems, aviation ground support equipment, logistical and engineering services, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul activities. 

For more information, visit www.unitedindustrial.com and www.aaicorp.com.

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