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SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, is building on established partnerships with Jordanian industry at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition (SOFEX) 2010, and is demonstrating how the Company can support the growth of capabilities of Jordan's Special Operations and Homeland Security forces. At this year's exhibition, SELEX Galileo is focusing on boosting the survivability and effectiveness of Jordan's dismounted soldiers with the latest sensor solutions, as well as strengthening the Country's surveillance capabilities with technologically advanced UAS.

SELEX Galileo is due to appear at the inaugural edition of Nigeria's Air Expo event, which takes place at the Air Force Base in Kaduna. The Company will work to build on its existing presence in Nigeria where it has delivered enhanced situational awareness systems such as ATOS and EOST, with EOST being installed on the NAF ATR 42MP and LUH Helicopter. The core theme of Air Expo is "Enhancing NAF Capability through Private Sector Partnership", and the event will be attended by key figures from Nigeria and the wider West African Sub region.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company and a key player in the Electronic Warfare (EW) market is delighted to announce its successful participation in the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD)'s Project Baker. The Company has been awarded contracts worth in excess of £10 Million as part of an Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) to provide an integrated Defensive Aids System (DAS) for the RAF's Chinook Mk2 and Mk3 helicopters.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company and Europe's leading supplier of sophisticated airborne radar systems has concluded an agreement with ATMOS, a subsidiary of ATECH, to establish them as the Brazilian AESA Radar Centre of Excellence and Airborne Radar Systems House. The agreement is directly in accordance with the Brazilian Defence Strategy's intention of strengthening Brazil's national defence industrial capability.

At Soldier Technology 2010, India's biggest soldier modernisation event, SELEX Galileo will present its suite of next-generation equipment designed to improve the combat effectiveness of dismounted soldiers. The Individual Fire Control and Observation System can enhance the mobility, situational awareness and lethality of dismounted soldiers and provide a real "all-weather" 24-hour operational capability for target location and sighting. SELEX Galileo will be looking to target the Indian Army's Future Infantry Soldier as a System (F-INSAS) programme, which aims to significantly enhance the capabilities of individual infantry soldiers on the modern, networked battlefield.

SELEX Galileo's prototype of its Raven ES-05 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, the Raven 1000P, is playing a key role in the Saab Gripen Next Generation flight proving and demonstration programme. The programme has been very successful, demonstrating radar modes in flight as well as showing the effectiveness of the SELEX Galileo and Saab team.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, is proud to announce that its team in Edinburgh has won a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. The honour, which is presented each year on the Queen's birthday, is the highest that can be awarded to business in the UK. The award was presented to SELEX Galileo for having made significant gains in export orders over the last three years.

The SELEX Galileo Inc. Board of Directors announced that James Giles Kyser, IV has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer, taking over from Acting CEO Wayne Landman. "Giles brings to the position a wealth of competence, leadership experience and an insightful knowledge of our customers" said SELEX Galileo Inc. Chairman of the Board Gen. Ryan. "We look forward to his continued success as our CEO."

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, will demonstrate at the Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA)'s 2010 convention combat-proven solutions that dramatically enhance the survivability of rotary wing fleets. These range from the Aircraft Gateway Processor (AGP) which delivers a combined threat picture and prioritized tactical response, to the lightweight, low-cost, 5th generation IRCM pointer tracker ECLIPSE, which is currently being offered in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation for the US Army's CIRCM program.

Using data from the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Venus Express spacecraft, an international team of scientists from the US and Europe have detected for the first time clear signs of recent lava flows on the surface of Venus. This makes the planet one of the few worlds in our solar system that has been volcanically active in the last 3 million years. The discovery was aided by SELEX Galileo's VIRTIS (Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) which revealed that certain minerals on the planet surface were formed during recent volcanic activity.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, is looking to strengthen its presence in Asia at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) Exhibition and Conference 2010, an important procurement hub for defence and security in Malaysia and the Asia Pacific region. The Company will be pursuing opportunities relating to the building of an organic maritime patrol and reconnaissance capability as well as responding to the region's significant Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) requirements.

SELEX Galileo is to play a key role at this year's Edinburgh International Science Festival, which will be bringing popular science and a line up of entertaining scientists and thinkers to the city. A long standing supporter of the festival, SELEX Galileo will be launching a new competition aimed at building children's confidence in engaging with science and technology.

The results of recent US Government reliability and characterisation tests have demonstrated the maturity of  the latest infrared countermeasure system jointly developed by SELEX Galileo and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The ECLIPSE pointer tracker provides a low risk approach to protecting the US Army's fixed and rotary wing fleet from surface to air missile threats.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has been awarded two contracts for its Precision Approach Radar (PAR) 2090 CF worth around 31 Million Euros. The first contract was assigned to SELEX Galileo by TELEDIFE on behalf of the Italian Air Force. The second contract, obtained under an international bid, will see the supply of five PAR 2090 CF systems to the Swiss Air Force through the prime contractor EADS.

On the 15th March, SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, launched a new limited liability company dedicated to its business activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Wholly owned by SELEX Galileo, the launch of "SELEX Galileo Saudi Arabia Company Limited" demonstrates the firm's commitment and confidence in a long term relationship with Saudi Arabia.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has delivered to prime contractor Boeing the 100th Aircraft Gateway Processor (AGP). The AGP provides the interface to an aircraft that allows all current and future Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) to be integrated fully into the aircraft processors and displays.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has won the competition to supply its next generation ECLIPSE Pointer-Tracker and Type 160 Infrared Counter Measure (IRCM) laser as part of the Common Defensive Aid Suite (CDAS) Technology Demonstrator Programme (TDP). The TDP aims to define the architecture for advanced defensive aid systems and forms a critical component of the UK MoD's aircraft protection strategy.

SELEX Galileo's sonic system OTS-90 was demonstrated successfully during recent flight trials performed in Australia. In a demo flight during the PAC2010 Exhibition, the helicopter NH90 (NHF) deployed the sonic sensor for a dip just in front of the Sidney Opera House. OTS-90 is capable of detecting and classifying targets at extremely long range, both in blue waters and brown waters.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, has received a £19M Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar Technology Demonstrator Programme (TDP) contract from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (UK MoD). The contract includes the development and building of a multi-functional, wide field of regard AESA radar that will provide increased capability and performance when compared to conventional AESA Fire Control radar systems.

SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a $10M contract for Seaspray 7500E Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars which will be fitted to King Air 350ER Multi-role Enforcement Aircraft (MEA) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and US Customs and Border Protection (US CBP). This new achievement follows the success of the Company's other AESA radars in the US strategic security domain.