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EDO CORPORATION
ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS IN ITS
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS GROUP
Peter
McVeigh Named Vice President, Sensors and Force Protection
Ruby Pritchard Named General Manager, Antenna Products and Technologies
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - October 18, 2002 - EDO Corporation (NYSE:EDO) today announced two promotions in its Electronic Systems Group.
Peter McVeigh has been promoted to the position of Vice President, Sensors and Force Protection. In this position, he will have responsibility for the Group's Antenna Products and Technologies, American Nucleonics Corporation, and Communications and Countermeasure Systems business units. McVeigh will report to George Fox, Vice President of EDO's Electronic Systems Group.
McVeigh was General Manager of Antenna Products and Technologies. He joined the former AIL 35 years ago, and has held a series of management positions of increasing responsibility. AIL merged with EDO in 2000.
EDO also announced that Ruby
Pritchard has been promoted to General Manager, Antenna Products
and Technologies. Pritchard, who joined AIL in 1970, will report
to Peter McVeigh.
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, reconnaissance and surveillance systems, aircraft weapons
suspension and release systems, airborne mine countermeasures
systems, and integrated combat systems and sonar systems and professional,
operational, technical and information technology services. EDO's
Communications and Space Products Segment addresses the needs
of the remote sensing, communication, navigation, and electronic
warfare industries with ultra-miniature electronics and systems
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.
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