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Honeywell Developing New Aviation and Security Solutions To Improve Air Travel Safety. Company Appoints Air Transport President Frank Daly As Aviation Safety Technology Leader.

Safety / Security Initiatives Underway Include New Airborne And Enhanced Airport Security Systems.

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, New Jersey, October 10, 2001 – Honeywell [NYSE: HON] said today its broad expertise in flight-safety and security technology will help the Federal Aviation Administration and airline industry improve air travel safety.  The company has already launched an enhanced safety initiative to develop ways to use new and existing electronic and structural systems to increase aviation security on the ground and in the air.

Honeywell Chairman and CEO Lawrence Bossidy said the company has also appointed Frank Daly, President, Air Transport, to lead the company-wide initiative to help improve air travel safety.

“Honeywell has a broad portfolio of proven flight-safety and security technologies,” Bossidy said.  “With Frank’s leadership and guidance, we are accelerating a coordinated, cross-business initiative to identify and develop innovative solutions that combine these technologies to improve air travel safety and to make it easier for authorities to manage aircraft and airport emergencies.”

Bossidy said company representatives met last week with the FAA, DARPA, NASA and other government officials in Washington, D.C., to discuss their needs and challenges and to review with them the aviation safety and security technology capabilities Honeywell can offer the industry.  The company is expected to map-out action plans with the FAA, airlines and airframe manufacturers in the next few weeks.

“We believe it is important to look across the breadth of Honeywell’s technology portfolio to identify safety and security solutions that can help serve the aviation industry as it navigates this difficult time in our history,” Daly said.  “We are committed to helping improve air travel safety for the industry as well as for the traveling public.”

Daly added that both existing and new Honeywell technologies can be integrated in innovative ways to enhance airport security, prevent unauthorized entry into the aircraft or cockpit, alert authorities in the event of an attempted takeover and, in the worst case, aid a post-incident investigation.

Daly also pointed out that near-term projects (over the next three to 12 months) include hardened cockpit doors using the company’s SpectraÒ fiber products, systems to alert flight crew and ground authorities of an airborne emergency and improved flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

“Honeywell’s surveillance and safety technologies can be applied in a number of new ways such as a system to alert flight controllers of any deviation from flight plans and a new GPS-based system we’re developing that would continuously broadcast an aircraft’s position,” Daly said.  “We also have existing technologies that could be employed immediately at airports, such as access control and intruder detection integrated with digital video to ensure that any potential security breaches are monitored, recorded and addressed.”

Near-term (over the next three to 12 months) security improvements include:

• A new airborne video-audio system to alert flight crew members to a situation in the cabin

• Hardened cockpit doors using the company’s SpectraÒ fiber products.   

• Cabin and flight deck systems to alert ground authorities of an emergency.  

• An uninterruptible data-link to send flight data and cockpit audio to air traffic controllers in an emergency.

• Mode “S” transponders for all aircraft that would transmit aircraft identification, speed, differential GPS position and other information to ground authorities. 

• Dual, combination flight data-cockpit voice recorders that would double the probability for recovery of investigative data.   

• Advanced fire detection and smoke control to protect buildings and their occupants.  

• Real time asset locating solutions that can track the location of key security personnel and identify duress or other situations that constitute a security risk.  

• Video based aircraft docking and ramp surveillance system.

Honeywell estimates that these enhanced safety systems could represent $500 million to $700 million of market opportunity in the commercial air transport segment over the next five years.

Longer-term technology (12 months or more) Honeywell is currently researching includes:  

• Fingerprint readers and iris scanners for the airport and aircraft to provide positive identification of flight crew, ground crew, airport staff, passengers, etc.

• Facial recognition systems added to airport video to identify known suspicious persons.

• Aircraft wiring tamper monitors.

• An override to prevent unauthorized shutdown of critical aircraft systems such as transponders, radios and flight recorders.    

• Encryption of transmissions from communications equipment.     Explosion resistant cargo holds incorporating SpectraÒ fiber.   “Deployable” flight data and cockpit voice recorders that would be jettisoned from the aircraft on impact, offering further protection.   

• Crash-survivable video recorders.  To further aid investigators, these would provide pictures from inside the aircraft   

• Airport environmental systems that can detect and remove chemical or biological agents.      

• Real time locator systems to track mobile airside assets and prevent them from being operated by unauthorized personnel.

Honeywell is a US$25-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation systems; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials.  Honeywell employs approximately 120,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges.  It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.  Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com.

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