FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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	Company Contact: William J. Frost Vice President - Administration (212) 716-2000 investor.relations@edocorp.com

EDO CORPORATION AWARDED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT
VALUED UP TO $13.5 MILLION

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - April 10, 2002 - EDO Corporation (NYSE:EDO) announced today that it has been awarded a task order to provide a broad range of program management professional support services to the Naval Sea Systems Command through a subcontract to Anteon Corporation. The task order has an initial value of $1.6 million. Annual options for four years plus an award term of up to five additional years raise the potential total value to approximately $13.5 million.

EDO's Professional Services Division, recently formed through the integration of the company's Falls Church, VA, based Technology Services and Analysis Division with recently acquired Dynamic Systems, Inc. of Alexandria, VA, will perform the work. This contract will provide the U.S. Navy Undersea Weapons Program Office with program management, engineering, analytical, logistical and information technology support.

"This award continues our support of the Undersea Weapons Program Office by EDO Professional Services, which extends over two decades," said James M. Smith, President and Chief Executive officer of EDO Corporation. "It also ratifies our strategy to diversify and expand our traditional core equipment business into the large and rapidly expanding services segment of the federal marketplace."

About EDO Corporation
EDO Corporation (www.EDOcorp.com) supplies highly engineered products for governments and industry worldwide, including advanced electronic, electromechanical and information systems and engineered materials critical to the mission success of its customers. The Company's Defense Segment provides integrated front-line war fighting systems, including radar countermeasure systems, aircraft weapons storage and release systems, airborne mine countermeasure systems, and integrated combat systems and sonar systems and professional, operational, technical and information technology services. EDO's Space and Communication Segment addresses the needs of the remote sensing, communication, navigation, and electronic warfare industries with ultra-miniature electronics and a broad line of antennas. The Company's Engineered Materials Segment supplies piezoelectric and advanced composites for the communication, navigation, chemical, petrochemical, paper and oil industries, for civilian infrastructure and military applications.

Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements due to numerous factors, including those described above and the following: changes in demand for the Company's products, product mix, the timing of customer orders and deliveries, the impact of competitive products and pricing, difficulties encountered in the integration of acquired businesses and other risks discussed from time to time in the Company's SEC filings and reports. In addition, such statements could be affected by general industry and market conditions and growth rates, and general domestic and international economic conditions. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.

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