L-3 brings home the Titans: with its deal complete, top exec, new ship come to San Diego.(L-3 Communications Corp.)

From: San Diego Business Journal | Date: August 8, 2005| Author: Graves, Brad | Copyright information

Among the things L-3 Communications acquired in its $2.6 billion purchase of San Diego's Titan Corp.--on top of Titan's order book, its contracts to provide various goods and services to the Pentagon, and roughly 5,000 employees with high-level security clearances--is an intangible.

In the eyes of Frank Lanza, New York-based L-3's chairman and chief executive, that intangible is worth keeping hold of.

"We intend to maintain the Titan culture," Lanza said last...

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