International Launch Services is the U.S. based company with exclusive rights for worldwide commercial sales and mission management of satellite launches on Russia's premier vehicle, the Proton. ILS is an American company, headquartered in Reston, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The majority shareholder is Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center of Moscow. The Proton vehicle launches both commercial ILS missions and Russian government payloads from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is operated by the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) under lease from the Republic of Kazakhstan. We are a complete launch service organization, committed to nurturing partnerships with our customers, not just marketing and fulfilling launch contracts. We're at the customer's side from contract signing through mission completion. With ILS customers get a single source of comprehensive knowledge, from business management to technical interface to licensing support. We have a staff of about 60 people with decades of combined expertise in the international launch and satellite business. The International Launch Services team has accumulated an extensive experience base. In our 15 years of existence, we have launched most commercial satellite platforms and worked with all major satellite operators. This experience helps us keep integration times and launch campaigns short and maintain a steady launch pace. It's the kind of professionalism that has helped International Launch Services become the provider of choice for customers worldwide.

BlackHawk Products Group sells a broad range of tactical gear for those in the military and law enforcement. Products include apparel and tactical armor, holsters, knives, weapon accessories, harnesses, and rappelling equipment. Items are sold by catalog or online. After acquiring US-based Knoxx Industries in 2007, BlackHawk added recoil-suppression stocks for rifles and shotguns to its list of more than 3,000 products. BlackHawk was founded in 1993 by CEO Mike Noell, a former Navy SEAL. Since then, the company has expanded through acquisitions and now operates through offices in the US and Germany.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies runs the gamut from A to V -- antennas to video systems -- with stops in between for GPS equipment, high-tech subsystems, and systems integration. A subsidiary of Ball Corporation, the company's antennas include models for airborne, naval, and land-based applications; military platforms include the Joint Strike Fighter (officially named the Lightning II), F/A-18, and the Advanced Tactical Missile System. Ball cameras/video equipment include night-vision systems and high-resolution satellite cameras for NASA vehicles, weather satellites, and the military. Ball's other offerings include cryogenic systems, fast-steering mirrors, and satellite accessory control systems.

Meggitt Defense Systems designs and manufactures aerial towed vehicle systems, threat detection and assessment systems, decoy deployment systems, live-fire training systems, special purpose aircraft pods, and reeling machines. Towed vehicle systems and reeling machines are used to provide targets for air-to-air and surface-to-air combat simulation. The company sells to armed forces and law enforcement agencies worldwide. Meggitt Defense Systems is a business unit of Meggitt PLC.

Northrop Grumman Information Systems is a leading global provider of advanced solutions that deliver timely, enabling information to where its needed most for its military, intelligence, civilian, state and local and commercial customers. We are a $10 billion business employing approximately 35,000 employees with offices in 50 states and 18 countries.

Mercury Air Group, Inc. was founded in 1956 by three members of the legendary First American Volunteer Group (AVG) Flying Tigers—Thomas C. Haywood, Robert P. “Duke” Hedman and Robert J. “Catfish” Raine. In all the history of aerial combat, there has never been such a total air victory as that of the Flying Tigers during World War II. It is this tradition of teamwork and strong results that drives Mercury Air Group’s management team today that together has more than a century of experience in the aviation industry.Based in Los Angeles, Mercury Air Group is a global leader in the aviation services industry and is one of the largest privately owned aviation services company in the world with business operations on five continents in more than 60 locations. Mercury Air Group provides aviation petroleum products, air cargo services and transportation as well as support services for international and U.S. commercial airlines, general aviation and U.S. government aircraft through: MercFuel, Inc., Maytag Aircraft Corporation, Mercury Air Cargo, Inc. and Mercury Aviation.

Bombardier Flexjet (known as Flexjet) offers fractional jet ownership services, in which customers acquire partial ownership of aircraft operated by the company. With ownership comes a specified number of flying hours -- think of the arrangement as an airborne timeshare. (A one-sixteenth share of an airplane equates to 50 hours of flight time per year.) Through the Flexjet 25 program, customers can also buy flight time in 25-hour blocks without taking an ownership interest in a plane. Flexjet's fleet of more than 90 aircraft includes Learjet and Challenger business jets manufactured by the company's parent, Montreal-based Bombardier. Flexjet was established in 1995.

Raytheon Company, is a world leader in the production of offensive and defensive missile systems and related weapons used for land-, air-, and sea-launched combat missiles. Among its missiles and bombs are the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM); the Javelin, a portable anti-tank system; the anti-armor TOW (Tube-launched, Optically-tracked Wire-guided weapon system); the HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile), an air-defense radar killer; the Paveway, a laser-guided bomb; and the Excalibur, a guided extended range artillery projectile. The division is also developing directed energy weapons.

easyJet would like to make air travel easy-come, easy-go for its customers, even if they don't all live on Easy Street. The low-fare airline serves more than 100 destinations in about 30 countries, including popular vacation spots as well as business centers throughout Europe and a few in North Africa and the Middle East. Measures such as selling nearly all tickets online and charging for meals onboard help easyJet control costs. The carrier operates from about 20 crew bases on the European continent and in the UK, including London's Gatwick, Luton, and Stansted airports. Its fleet consists of about 175 Airbus and Boeing jets. The carrier was established in 1995 by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

Racal Antennas develops and manufactures base station antennas. It designs and supplies antennas as single panels in GSM900, PCN1800, PCS1900 and UMTS bands and in most integrated multi-band configurations including tri-band and tri-sector. The company also supplies micro cell antennas and components such as amplifiers, filters, and towers, and offers tactical antennas for the defense market and designs and manufactures telescopic support masts. Racal Antennas serves such clients as Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, and O2. Racal Antennas is part of the Chelton Group, which it acquired from France's Thales in 2003.

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