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President Bush Names Six Senior Communications Executives to NSTAC

Arlington, Va., September 8, 2004 - President Bush announced September 7 that he is appointing six senior communications executives to the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).

Named to the NSTAC were Mr. Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr., Vice Chairman and President of Verizon Communications; Mr. Gregory Q. Brown, Executive Vice President, Motorola; Mr. Ken Dahlberg, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC); Mr. William J. Hannigan, President, AT&T; Mr. Stanley J. Sigman, President and CEO of Cingular Wireless (representing the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association); and Mr. Joseph R. Wright, President and CEO of PanAmSat.

The President's NSTAC is composed of up to 30 presidentially appointed industry leaders (usually chief executive officers). In its advisory role to the President, the NSTAC provides industry-based analyses and recommendations on a wide range of policy and technical issues related to telecommunications, information assurance, infrastructure protection, and other national security and emergency preparedness matters. The NSTAC receives its governmental support from the National Communications System, part of the Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. NSTAC and NCS have maintained this partnership for 22 years.

Mr. Babbio has responsibility for the Verizon's domestic wireline business. He is also responsible for long distance, information technology, procurement services and technology research. Mr. Babbio is also a member of the Board of Directors of Verizon Wireless. Prior to the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger, Mr. Babbio was President and Chief Operating Officer for Bell Atlantic. He shared oversight of, and responsibility for, all of the corporation's business operations, restructuring of the business units, the GTE merger process, and developing new growth opportunities. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Network Group for Bell Atlantic, responsible for developing and deploying the company's switching, transmission and operations infrastructure.

Mr. Brown joined Motorola in January 2003 from Micromuse, Inc., where he was Chairman and CEO. His 20 years of high-tech experience includes leadership positions in the telecommunications, data networking, cable TV and computer software industries. Before joining Micromuse in 1999, Brown served three years as president of Ameritech Custom Business Services, a $1.5 billion business unit that provided large business and government customers with custom communications and information technology. The 5,000-employee unit served as a single source for the provisioning and management of network and desktop-based voice, data, video and local-access services.

Mr. Dahlberg became the CEO and President of SAIC on November 3, 2003. Prior to joining SAIC, Dahlberg served as Executive Vice President of General Dynamics where he was responsible for the company's Information Systems and Technology Group. He was Raytheon's Executive Vice President for business development and President of Raytheon International. When Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft in 1997, he became President and Chief Operating Officer of Raytheon Systems Company and oversaw operations of the defense business units. Three years later, he assumed the duties of Executive Vice President for business development and president of Raytheon International. In this role, he was Raytheon's principal liaison with its defense customers and directed its international and domestic business development.

Mr. Hannigan is responsible for executing AT&T's strategy for serving business retail, government and wholesale customers worldwide, for deploying voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services to business customers and consumers, and for leading the company's re-entry into wireless. Promoted to President of AT&T in December 2003, Mr. Hannigan's responsibilities include global network engineering and operations and the AT&T Labs, as well as the company's worldwide sales and marketing,portfolio solutions, and customer service organizations. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Hannigan served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company and a world leader in travel commerce, distribution and technology. During his tenure, each of Sabre Holdings' three companies were ranked first or second globally within the travel industry.

Mr. Sigman is responsible for all aspects of Cingular's operations. A long-time wireless industry leader, Mr. Sigman has held similar positions at SBC Communications, where he helped start SBC's wireless business in the mid-1980s, managed its expansion into one of the largest wireless businesses in the nation and directed its integration into BellSouth's wireless group to form Cingular. Along the way, Mr. Sigman also helped launch cellular and paging services for properties in Mexico. Mr. Sigman has been long regarded as a wireless industry visionary and champion for wireless safety and technology advances. He currently serves as chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA). CTIA is the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry, representing wireless service providers, suppliers and                                               others.

Mr. Wright directs PanAmSat's global operations, including strategic development, sales, marketing, regulatory affairs and all financial issues associated with PanAmSat's global satellite services business. Mr. Wright, who became CEO in August 2001, has also been a member of PanAmSat's board of directors since 1997. He was previously vice chairman and director of Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a public company that develops and operates Network Access Points. Additionally, Mr. Wright is a former director of the Federal Office of Management and Budget with nearly 40 years of entrepreneurial, industry and government experience.

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