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To: leigh aulper who wrote (2223)	10/6/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Respond to of 2365

Lockheed Martin Fighter Plant Integrates NewsEdge Solution LMTAS Enhances Internal Defense and Aerospace Information System with NewsEdge Review Topics BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1999--NewsEdge Corporation, the independent leader in news and current awareness solutions, today announced that it has signed a new agreement with Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems (LMTAS) to provide industry news to employees in its Fort Worth, Tx. facilities. Some 100 NewsEdge Review(TM) topics, focusing on defense and aerospace, will be integrated into LMTAS's intranet to help employees stay current with the latest news affecting their industry. Using the company's Aeronautical Systems Knowledge (ASK) system, users will be able to read news along with internally generated research and information, consolidating their information resources into one convenient tool. "Our goal is to combine our information assets together into one centralized `Knowledge Center,' making it easy and efficient for our employees to find the information they need to keep them productive and competitive," said Dan West, LMTAS' ASK Project Manager. "The ability to integrate news feeds from NewsEdge helps achieve that objective, because it allows us to incorporate the latest industry news into the resources they use to do their jobs each day." "Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems has recognized a crucial truth in managing the knowledge assets of an organization," said NewsEdge President and COO Cliff Pollan. "The more streamlined peoples' access is to the information they need to do their jobs, the more productive, efficient and successful they will be with that information." The 100 different NewsEdge Review topics being fed into LMTAS's ASK system are generated by the NewsEdge Refinery(TM), a unique two-step news processing method that produces concise daily briefings on the most important industry-specific, general business and company news. An automated filter processes some 500 different news sources into categories in the first step; industry-expert reviewers cull through them in the second step, eliminating repetition and helping to lend some context to the day's news. Every business day, the news is organized into more than 1500 NewsEdge Review topics. About NewsEdge Corporation NewsEdge Corporation (Nasdaq: NEWZ) is the independent leader in global news and current awareness solutions for business. The Company's mission is to make news valuable for business by helping people find the most important, relevant stories from an overwhelming volume of daily news and enabling them to act on the most current information possible. NewsEdge's Enterprise business serves approximately 1,500 organizations including 81 of Business Week's 100 largest global companies with award-winning news and information solutions including NewsEdge Insight(TM), NewsEdge Live(TM) and NewsEdge Review(TM) topics. Wholly-owned subsidiary Newspage.com, Inc. is the leader is delivering personalized news and information to business people on the Web. NewsEdge is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with sales offices and distributors throughout North America, South America, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. For more information about NewsEdge Corporation, visit the company's Web site at newsedge.com (c)NewsEdge Corporation, 1999, all rights reserved. NewsEdge is a registered trademark of NewsEdge Corporation. All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of NewsEdge or their respective owners. Certain of the above statements on the Company's future revenue and financial performance, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including, risks associated with acquisitions, the timely development and acceptance of new products, competitive developments, the success of relationships with third parties, and other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's SEC reports. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: NewsEdge Corporation Sarah Garnsey, (781) 313-5891 sgarnsey@newsedge.com or Mullen PR Deanna Runeman, (978) 468-1155 druneman@mullen.com