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HRL Awarded Quality Management Certification

LOS ANGELES, March 15, 2007—HRL Laboratories, LLC officially announced today that it has met the stringent quality management requirements of Aerospace Standard AS9100B, successfully culminating over two years of training, procedure development, on-site internal auditor workshops, and management review. The AS9100B is an internationally recognized standard endorsed by, among others, the U.S. Department of Defense for use on Defense contracts, and by NASA as applied to flight product delivery requirements. The Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) conducted the HRL AS9100B assessment, and certification covers HRL's development and fabrication of transistors and integrated circuits for space applications.

In the industry controlled, other-party quality registration process, the auditing organization uses a standard checklist (AS9101) to assure that all quality management standards have been met. HRL, whose scope of work comprises basic research to product delivery, has been certified in three categories under the standard: Commercial Physical and Biological Research, Noncommercial Research Organizations, and Engineering Services. The AS9100 certificate includes the International Standard for ISO9001:2000, also an industry-wide quality standard.

HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California, is a corporate R&D laboratory owned by Boeing and General Motors. HRL provides custom R&D and performs additional R&D contract services for its LLC Members, for the U.S. government, and for other commercial entities.

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