U.S. Special Operations Selects QinetiQ North America for Advanced Mission Planning Tools

HUNTSVILLE, AL--(Marketwire - August 13, 2009) - The U.S. Army Aviation Integration
Directorate, Aviation & Missile Command (AMCOM) and the U.S. Special
Operations Mission Planning and Execution (SOMPE) Program Office awarded QinetiQ North America a contract for
the continued design, development and maintenance of Advanced Mission Planning
Tools (AMPT).

Awarded to the Company's Systems Engineering Group, the indefinite
delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract has a five-year period of
performance and a $10 million ceiling.

Located at Fort Eustis, Va., SOMPE provides integrated mission
planning software to the U.S. Special
Operations Command (USSOCOM).

QinetiQ North America's Mission & Performance Planning Technology team has
provided mission planning software products to the U.S. Army Special
Operations Command (USASOC) since 1994, operating then as Great Pond
Technologies, which was acquired in 2002 by Westar Aerospace & Defense
Group which, in turn, was acquired by QinetiQ North America in 2005.

"Integrated with the Defense Department's Portable Flight
Planning System, our software gives special operations pilots added
confidence that their aircraft will complete their assigned missions as
planned," said John Lewis, Vice President, Special Operations Programs.

Through subsequent contracts, QinetiQ North America developed flight performance
models and Calculator.htm">performance planning
calculator applications for all rotary-wing aircraft assigned to the
USASOC. Recently, these mission planning tools have been expanded to cover
a number of C-130 variants flown by the AFSOC (Air Force Special Operations
Command). The C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport
aircraft.

About QinetiQ North America:

QinetiQ North America delivers world-class technology and responsive
solutions to government agencies and commercial customers for many of their
most urgent and complex challenges. QinetiQ North America is an
independent, innovative technology provider that earns over a billion
dollars in revenue operating with small company speed and agility while
leveraging significant global resources. More than 6,400 QinetiQ North
America engineers, scientists and technicians have the mission knowledge
and proven, reliable performance to meet the rapidly changing demands of
national defense, homeland security and information assurance customers.
QinetiQ North America is part of QinetiQ Group plc, (LSE: QQ.L), one of the
world's leading defense and security technology companies.

For more information on integrated mission planning software for the
aviation warfighter, visit: MPS">www.qinetiq-na.com/MPS.