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Ansaldo STS (STS.MI), a global leader in high speed rail signaling technology, proudly advocates the Obama Administration’s announcement of grants dedicated to high speed and intercity rail. Ansaldo STS USA, a subsidiary and the North American headquarters of Ansaldo STS, cites this as a critical moment in American transportation history that will have distinct effects on its US-based employees and the entire nation.

The team consisting of the US firm Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and the Italian company e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) has been awarded a contract worth up to USD 85 million by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide data, products and services from the COSMO-SkyMed satellites. The contract was signed in Denver (Colorado) and has a duration of five years.

Finmeccanica has won tree orders for a combined value of approximately EUR 300 million through his companies Ansaldo STS, SELEX Sistemi Integrati and DRS Technologies.

The Finmeccanica Board of Directors met today to examine the financial forecasts for 2009 and updated guidance for 2010. The forecasts for 2009 – the final results will be submitted to the Board of Directors for approval on 4 March – confirm that the Group has succeeded in meeting the guidance for 2009 previously provided to the financial market.

Finmeccanica has been awarded a contract to supply naval systems to be fitted onto the two new stealth patrol vessels known as “Falaj 2”, which have been ordered to Fincantieri by the United Arab Emirates navy.