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Overwatch to Host Free Software Training
At ESRI User Conference

STERLING, VA — July 24, 2008 — Overwatch Geospatial Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, will provide free geospatial data production training for “Building 3-D City Models from Imagery and LIDAR.” The training is scheduled for Friday, August 8, 2008 at San Diego State University and space is limited to the first 20 registered attendees.

The training will develop feature extraction skills to build, analyze and publish a 3D city model from satellite imagery and airborne LIDAR data using the Feature Analyst®, LIDAR Analyst® and Urban Analyst™ software. Seats are limited, and registration is needed prior to attendance. Those who would like more information can email Marilyn Lee at mlee@overwatch.textron.com.

Overwatch Geospatial Systems will also host a user group meeting on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in room 23 C of the San Diego Convention Center. The meeting will showcase feature extraction projects using the Feature Analyst, LIDAR Analyst and Urban Analyst software as well as preview new tools planned of the 5.0 release. Attendees are welcome to bring questions and provide input during the session.

“The ESRI User Conference has long been a valuable resource for anyone involved in GIS,” said Kevin Opitz, vice president of Sales. “It’s a great place to preview our existing and upcoming product releases, and take a look at the latest developments within the GIS and image processing industries.”

About Overwatch Geospatial Systems
Overwatch Geospatial Systems is the preferred geospatial and imagery software solution provider to the US Intelligence Community and Unified Commands. Used by thousands of government geospatial and imagery analysts, Overwatch Geospatial produces RemoteView, ELT/Series, Feature Analyst, LIDAR Analyst, Urban Analyst, InterSCOPE and ASIS Zoom 500. Overwatch Geospatial Systems is an operating unit of Textron Systems.

About Textron Systems
Textron Systems Corporation (Textron Systems) has been providing innovative solutions to the defense, homeland security and aerospace communities for over 50 years.  Known for its precision smart weapons, intelligent battlefield systems, surveillance systems, intelligence software solutions, aircraft control components, piston engines, armored vehicles and unmanned aircraft systems, Textron Systems includes AAI, HR Textron, Lycoming Engines, Overwatch Tactical Operations, Overwatch Geospatial Operations, Textron Defense Systems, and Textron Marine & Land Systems.  Textron Systems Corporation is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Textron Inc.  More information is available at www.textronsystems.com.

About Textron Inc.
Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) is a $13.2 billion multi-industry company operating in 34 countries with approximately 44,000 employees. The company leverages its global network of aircraft, defense and intelligence, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft Company, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Greenlee, Fluid & Power, Textron Systems and Textron Financial Corporation. More information is available at www.textron.com.

CONTACT:         Kevin Opitz, VLS 1.866.YOUR.VLS x222
sales@vls-inc.com
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
GeoEye RoadTracker™ Now Available
for Overwatch Geospatial Systems Feature Analyst®
 
Enhanced and Automatic Feature Capabilities
Reduce Analysis Time and Related Costs
 
STERLING, VA — May 02, 2008 — Overwatch Geospatial Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced the integration of RoadTracker™ with its award-winning feature-extraction program, Feature Analyst®.  RoadTracker extends the ease-of-use and time-saving advantages of Feature Analyst by adding new capabilities for the many government and industry users of Overwatch Geospatial Systems’ suite of tools.
 
RoadTracker accelerates the collection of roads and other linear features from satellite or aerial imagery by allowing users to click on two ends of a linear feature, such as a road, prompting the software to automatically trace the centerline of the feature between the two endpoints, curves and all.  This new tool also includes automatic feature attribution, and other smart editing capabilities that greatly improve speed, accuracy and workflow when collecting map-quality linear features.  This application is functional on any road surface type using either panchromatic or multi-spectral imagery. 
 
“RoadTracker provides a solution to image analysts’ pressing feature-extraction needs.  We have worked closely with GeoEye  to integrate their technology with ours, and have created a powerful solution for Feature Analyst users,” stated David Opitz, president of Overwatch Geospatial Systems’ VLS Operations.  “RoadTracker is now available on all base packages where Feature Analyst 4.2 resides, including Remote View™, ELT™, ArcGIS® and ERDAS IMAGINE®.”  
 
GeoEye’s director of Geospatial Analysis and Photogrammetric Engineering, Jacek F. Grodecki, added, “We developed RoadTracker for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its subcontractors, who produce road network layers using manual methods.  By re-architecting RoadTracker as a componentized plug-in tool and partnering with Overwatch Geospatial Systems we are eliminating this time-consuming and tedious task.”
 
For more information on Feature Analyst and RoadTracker, or to try a free demo, visit www.featureanalyst.com. RoadTracker is a trademarked product of GeoEye.
 
About GeoEye
 
GeoEye (NASDAQ: GEOY) is the premier provider of geospatial (or location-based) information, imagery and solutions for the national security community, strategic partners, resellers and commercial customers to help them better map, measure and monitor the world.  GeoEye operates a constellation of Earth imaging satellites, mapping aircraft and has an international network of ground stations, a robust imagery archive, and advanced imagery processing capabilities that develop innovative location-based information products and solutions. GeoEye will launch its newest satellite, GeoEye-1, in the coming months from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. GeoEye-1 will be the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial imaging satellite.  GeoEye provides support to academic institutions and non-governmental organizations through the GeoEye Foundation.  Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, GeoEye maintains a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS), and has achieved company-wide ISO accreditation.  For more information, visit www.geoeye.com. 
 
About Overwatch Geospatial Systems  
Overwatch Geospatial Systems is the preferred geospatial and imagery software solution provider to the US Intelligence Community and Unified Commands.  Used by thousands of government geospatial and imagery analysts, Overwatch Geospatial produces RemoteView, ELT/Series, Feature Analyst, LIDAR Analyst, Urban Analyst, InterSCOPE and ASIS Zoom 500.  Overwatch Geospatial Systems is an operating unit of Textron Systems.
 
About Textron Systems

Textron Systems Corporation (Textron Systems) has been providing innovative solutions to the defense, homeland security and aerospace communities for over 50 years.  Known for its precision smart weapons, intelligent battlefield systems, surveillance systems, intelligence software solutions, aircraft control components, piston engines, armored vehicles and unmanned aircraft systems, Textron Systems includes AAI, HR Textron, Lycoming Engines, Overwatch Tactical Operations, Overwatch Geospatial Operations, Textron Defense Systems, and Textron Marine & Land Systems.  Textron Systems Corporation is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Textron Inc.  More information is available at www.textronsystems.com.

 
About Textron Inc.

Textron Inc. is a $13.2 billion multi-industry company operating in 34 countries with approximately 44,000 employees. The company leverages its global network of aircraft, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft Company, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Greenlee, Textron Systems and Textron Financial Corporation.  More information is available at www.textron.com.

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More information:

Dave Mohr – 703-437-7651

www.geospatial.overwatch.com

Sensor Systems Joins Overwatch Systems

STERLING, VA., USA, 31 October 2005 – Sensor Systems, the developer of RemoteView geospatial processing software, has joined the Overwatch Systems group of companies. Effective October 1, Sensor Systems changed its name to Overwatch Systems Geospatial Operations and remains headquartered in Sterling, Va.

Overwatch Systems, based in Morristown, N.J., combines the resources of four companies – Sensor Systems, Austin IT Systems, ITSpatial and Federal IT – to provide a suite of integrated geospatial and fusion software tools for the defense/intelligence community called the Overwatch Intelligence Center (OIC). The OIC focuses on providing situational awareness by enabling analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and decision maker.

“RemoteView is a key component of the Overwatch Intelligence Center and will be a primary platform for merging sources of intelligence across multiple agencies of government,” said Kirk D. Brown, President and CEO of Overwatch Systems Geospatial Operations. “We are committed to providing the same level of innovation that RemoteView users expect, and we will continue our primary job of evolving the RemoteView product line.”

RemoteView is the leading software for imagery visualization and geospatial analysis within the defense intelligence community and with a growing customer base in the commercial sector. It handles massive image data sets of gigabyte size for rapid visualization and processing. RemoteView provides intuitive user controls to seamlessly build virtual mosaics incorporating hundreds of images for broad-area analysis, and includes tools for vector management, multi- and hyper-spectral analysis, 3D scene visualization and photogrammetry.

The Overwatch Intelligence Center uses a library of software components that can be assembled to develop mission-specific applications to support multiple programs and products necessary for extensive situational awareness. OIC solutions allow intelligence analysts to take raw sensor data and combat reports and develop products that support combat and intelligence operations. Analysis can develop and maintain relational databases and visualize the information on maps, images and charts.

About Overwatch Systems Geospatial Operations

Overwatch Systems Geospatial Operations, formerly Sensor Systems, located in Sterling, VA, is a leading developer of desktop applications for rapid visualization and analysis of high-resolution satellite and airborne imagery. The RemoteView product family provides solutions ranging from simple desktop viewers to sophisticated mapping, cartography and geodesy applications running on UNIX and Windows platforms. Current users include government and commercial organizations around the world.For more information about Overwatch and the RemoteView product family, contact our sales staff at (703) 437-7651, or visit www.geospatial.overwatch.com.

About Overwatch Systems

Headquartered in Morristown, N.J., Overwatch Systems provides a suite of integrated software tools that enable analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and policy maker. Using capabilities from the Overwatch Intelligence Center to counter current threats, we deliver fieldable collection and analysis capabilities in months where the traditional approach is measured in years. Overwatch Systems is focused on providing situational awareness that supports both conventional and asymmetric intelligence analysis.

Overwatch Systems is investing to integrate all of its geospatial and tactical products into the Overwatch Intelligence Center to enhance collaboration, usability, performance and user training. Overwatch Systems develops and markets intelligence analysis products and develops custom intelligence systems as specified by our Government customers. Overwatch Systems develops multi-band single feed SATCOM systems for DOD/HLS customers and have significant communications experience directly related to satisfying intelligence systems communications requirements.

MORRISTOWN, N.J., USA, 24 June 2006 – Overwatch Systems today announced that it has acquired All-Source Imaging Systems, Inc. (ASIS) of Northhampton, MA. The purchase became effective on June 24, 2006.

Founded in 1998, ASIS is the leading manufacturer of cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions that allow image analysts to fully integrate film-based imagery archives into today’s softcopy production environment using an automated process. The ASIS-developed Zoom 500 Digital series of products can quickly transform a traditional light table stereoscope into a full multi-source digital image exploitation system. The ASIS ZoomDigital™ and FilmDeskPro™ software products can complete the transformation of a stereoscope into a completely self-contained multi-source image analyst workstation, fully capable of exploiting maps, digital imagery and GIS data. ASIS software products and integration services provide full-featured, PC-based, multi-source imagery production systems that can pull from a variety of hard and softcopy sources in order to create and disseminate intelligence products.

ASIS is a strategic extension of the current Overwatch Systems product offerings. Overwatch Systems consists of the combined resources of six companies – Austin Info Systems, Sensor Systems, ITSpatial, Paragon Imaging, Visual Learning Systems and Federal IT – to provide a suite of integrated geospatial and intelligence fusion software tools for the defense/intelligence community. This toolset, known as the Overwatch Intelligence Center (OIC), focuses on providing situational awareness by enabling analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and decision maker. The OIC will contribute to transforming the Intelligence Community with low-cost collaboration tools. The addition of ASIS to the OIC family will enhance analysts’ productivity by streamlining access to film-based archives of geospatial information.

The senior management of ASIS has chosen to use a portion of its transaction proceeds to invest back into Overwatch Systems and will continue to manage the company. ASIS will report to Kirk Brown, President of Overwatch Geospatial Operations, formerly Sensor Systems, based in Sterling, Va.
“All-Source Imaging Systems fills a strategic void in today’s workflow environment. Historically, it has been cost prohibitive to digitize large archives of film-based imagery. Without a cost-effective solution, there was a real danger this rich source of information would never make it into a softcopy environment and become irrevocably lost. With ASIS products and services we can offer this capability on an as-needed basis, which saves our customers money. ASIS products and services are a natural fit with Overwatch Geospatial Operations, extending the integration of both our RemoteView and ELT product series to hardcopy now as well as softcopy,” said Brown. “We are excited to welcome ASIS to the Overwatch team. ASIS has many important and established customers not only in the US Defense and Intelligence Communities, but across Europe and Asia as well. We look forward to serving the warfighters, first-responders and decision makers in all of these areas with products and services to increase their productivity.”

Phil Wood, the principal shareholder of ASIS said at the time of the closing, “We’re very pleased to become part of the Overwatch team. We are excited to play a strategic role in extending the reach of Overwatch solutions beyond the softcopy sources of NTM and other sources serving the warfighter into the world of automated capture of hardcopy film.

About Overwatch Systems

Headquartered in Morristown, N.J., Overwatch Systems provides a suite of integrated software tools that enable analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and policy maker. Overwatch Systems is investing to provide analysis tools that enable interoperability among the member organizations of the intelligence community.

Overwatch Systems Purchases Visual Learning Systems

MORRISTOWN, N.J., USA, 28 April 2006 – Overwatch Systems today announced that it has acquired Visual Learning Systems (VLS) of Missoula, MT. The purchase became effective on April 28, 2006.

Founded in 1999 by Dr. David Opitz and Stuart Blundell, VLS is the worldwide leader in automated feature extraction solutions (AFE) for geographic information systems (GIS). The company's innovative software applications provide assisted and automated tools for extracting geospatial features of interest from imagery with the highest measure of speed and accuracy. VLS’ tools provide a key bridging technology between the raster based world of imaging and the vector based world of mapping. VLS's flagship product, Feature Analyst®, debuted in 2001 and quickly garnered industry-wide attention. Feature Analyst earned "Most Innovative Solution" in the 2002 ArcGIS Challenge Contest sponsored by ESRI, the world's leading provider of GIS software. In 2005, VLS introduced LIDAR Analyst™ to automate the extraction of 3D terrain surfaces, buildings, trees, and forest areas from LIDAR.

The VLS product line is an outstanding extension of the current Overwatch Systems product offerings. Overwatch Systems was formed from the combined the resources of five companies – Sensor Systems, Paragon Imaging, Austin Info Systems, ITSpatial and Federal IT – to provide a suite of integrated geospatial and intelligence fusion software tools for the defense/intelligence community. This toolset, known as the Overwatch Intelligence Center (OIC), focuses on providing situational awareness by enabling analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and decision maker. The Overwatch OIC will contribute to transforming the Intelligence Community with low-cost collaboration tools. The addition of VLS to the Overwatch OIC family will enhance analysts’ productivity by streamlining the way they examine, evaluate, learn and record geospatial information.

The senior management of VLS has chosen to use a portion of its transaction proceeds to invest back into Overwatch Systems and will continue to manage the company. VLS will report to Kirk Brown, President of Overwatch Geospatial Operations, formerly Sensor Systems, based in Sterling, Va. Brown was a key advocate for acquiring VLS and expressed his enthusiasm for the transaction.

“Visual Learning Systems enables us to offer our customers market-leading feature extraction tools that fit well within our historical engineering design philosophy. VLS enhances analysts’ productivity with feature extraction tools that are fast, accurate, and require only a minimum of user interaction and guidance. Their market offering will also deepen our customer relations with the growing cadre of geospatial analysts in the military and intelligence community both here in the US as well as in the international community. VLS helps Overwatch fulfill our mission to deliver collaborative analysis systems across the Intelligence Community that speed actionable intelligence to the warfighter,” said Brown. “The VLS team is a strong addition to our Geospatial Operations. While VLS will continue to service their existing customer base, we are eager to offer our combined customers the synergy of VLS technology within our exiting Geospatial Operations product offerings.”
Dr. David Opitz and Stuart Blundell the principal shareholders of VLS said at the time of the closing, “We’re very pleased to become part of the Overwatch team. We could have taken VLS in any number of directions, but felt the Overwatch strategy of linking intelligence sources together with easy-to-use data extraction and analysis tools provides the greatest benefit for our customers and our employees.”

About Overwatch Systems
Headquartered in Morristown, N.J., Overwatch Systems provides a suite of integrated software tools that enable analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and policy maker. Overwatch Systems is investing to provide analysis tools that enable interoperability among the member organizations of the intelligence community. For more information, visit www.overwatch.com.

About Overwatch Geospatial Operations
Overwatch Geospatial Operations, formerly Sensor Systems, is located in Sterling, VA., and is a leading developer of desktop applications for rapid visualization and analysis of high-resolution satellite and airborne imagery. The RemoteView product family provides solutions ranging from simple desktop viewers to sophisticated image analysis, precision positioning, multi-spectral analysis, mapping, vector management, and geospatial intelligence applications running on UNIX and Windows platforms. Current users include government and commercial organizations around the world. For more information about Overwatch Geospatial Operations and the RemoteView product family, contact the company's sales staff at 703-437-7651, or visit the company web site at www.geospatial.overwatch.com.

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More information:
Jay Eward – 703-437-7651

Overwatch Announces Milestone in RemoteView Software Deployment

STERLING, VA., USA, 10 March 2006 – Overwatch Systems today announced that it has deployed more than 12,000 seat licenses for its RemoteView-Pro imagery visualization and geospatial analysis software system. RemoteView, developed by Sensor Systems which changed its name to Overwatch Geospatial Operations in 2005, is used extensively by the U.S. defense and intelligence community with additional seat licensing now growing in the commercial and international defense sectors.

“RemoteView is typically installed in operational environments where the analysis of imagery and output of actionable intelligence occur around the clock,” said Kirk D. Brown, President of Overwatch Geospatial Operations. “With most seats being used 24 hours a day in three shifts and many of the deployed licenses delivered as floating licenses, the total number of RemoteView users exceeds 30,000 worldwide.”

Designed to rapidly generate situational awareness from a variety of geospatial data sources, RemoteView manages and fuses massive image data sets of multiple gigabyte size so they can be visualized and processed. RemoteView provides intuitive user controls to seamlessly build virtual mosaics incorporating hundreds of images for broad-area analysis, and includes tools for vector management, multi- and hyper-spectral analysis, 3D scene visualization and photogrammetry.

The RemoteView package with one or more of its many add-on modules has been deployed to all unified U.S. military commands, every branch of the military, and all federal intelligence agencies. RemoteView software resides on all Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC) workstations at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Many RemoteView end users use the software on laptop computers in active military operations.

RemoteView is a key component of the Overwatch Intelligence Center (OIC) created when Overwatch Systems of Morristown, N.J., integrated the resources of five companies, including Sensor Systems. The OIC is a suite of integrated geospatial and intelligence fusion software tools for the defense/intelligence community. It focuses on providing situational awareness by enabling analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the intelligence analyst, warfighter, first responder and decision maker.

About Overwatch Geospatial Operations
Overwatch Geospatial Operations located in Sterling, VA consists of the combined forces of Sensor Systems and Paragon Imaging. Overwatch Geospatial Operations is a leading developer of desktop applications for rapid visualization and analysis of high-resolution satellite and airborne imagery. The RemoteView product family provides solutions ranging from simple desktop viewers to sophisticated image analysis, precision positioning, multispectral analysis, mapping, vector management and geospatial intelligence applications running on UNIX and Windows platforms. The ELT® Series commercial image processing software is widely used among tactical imagery analysts in the U.S Air Force Theatre Battle Management Core System, the Naval Special Ops Warfare Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Current users include government and commercial organizations around the world. For more information about Overwatch, RemoteView and the ELT® product families, contact the sales staff at (703) 437-7651, or visit www.overwatch.com.

Overwatch Systems Acquires Paragon Imaging
Morristown, NJ
January 1, 2006

We are pleased to announce that effective November 30, 2005 Overwatch Systems has successfully acquired Paragon Imaging of Woburn, MA. Paragon was founded in 1987 to provide software for geospatial analysts. The ELT brand product line is used by a high percentage of the tactical image analysts in the US, including the US Air Force Theatre Battle Management Core System, the Naval Special Ops Warfare Command and the DIA. The Paragon engineering team are specialists in NTIF (National Imagery Transmission Format) and comply with a range of Department of Defense certifications.

The senior management of Paragon has chosen to use a portion of their sale proceeds to invest back into Overwatch Systems and will continue to run the company operating as the Boston Operations of Overwatch. The Boston Operations will report to Kirk Brown, President of the Geospatial Operations of Overwatch. Kirk was the early advocate for acquiring Paragon and expressed his enthusiasm for the transaction. “Paragon enables us to offer our customers an imagery analysis product line that spans from the strategic analyst to the tactical field user. Their market position will also deepen our customer relations with the tactical analysts in the US Military and will create new opportunities for both organizations in the international community. Paragon strengthens our engineering team and allows each group to focus on complementary product developments. This will further accelerate our existing market leadership position. The customers of each of our organizations will benefit from the technology offered by the other.”
Mark Stott and Jack Connors the principal shareholders of Paragon said at the time of the closing “We’re very pleased to align our future with Overwatch. We had been approached by other buyers but felt the Overwatch strategy of linking these intelligence resources together makes sense for our customers and our employees, and we’re delighted to have an opportunity to be part of this larger team.

In commenting on the transaction, Bill Craven, Chairman of Overwatch said “We’re delighted to welcome the Paragon Imaging organization to the Overwatch team both as team members and investment partners. We look forward to leveraging our combined skills and customer base to allow Overwatch to better serve the intelligence community. Paragon helps fulfill our mission to deliver analysis systems that speed actionable intelligence to the warfighter, and to enable information sharing among the agencies that make up the intelligence community.”

About Overwatch Geospatial Operations

Overwatch Geospatial Operations, formerly Sensor Systems, is located in Sterling, VA., and is a leading developer of desktop applications for rapid visualization and analysis of high-resolution satellite and airborne imagery. The RemoteView product family provides solutions ranging from simple desktop viewers to sophisticated image analysis, precision positioning, multi-spectral analysis, mapping, vector management, and geospatial intelligence applications running on UNIX and Windows platforms. Current users include government and commercial organizations around the world.

For more information about Overwatch Geospatial Operations and the RemoteView product family, contact the company's sales staff at 703-437-7651, or visit the company web site at www.geospatial.overwatch.com.

About Overwatch Systems

Headquartered in Morristown, N.J., Overwatch Systems provides a suite of integrated software tools that enable analysts to generate relevant, actionable intelligence faster and more effectively for the warfighter, first responder and policy maker. Overwatch Systems is investing to provide analysis tools that enable interoperability among the member organizations of the intelligence community.