Strategy Event

For immediate release 17 November 2011

Ultra Electronics Holdings plc

("Ultra" or "the Group")

Strategy event - Thursday November 17th 2011

Ultra will today be hosting a strategy event for analysts and investors to discuss the Group's positioning within the cyber security sector.

The event will be chaired by Rakesh Sharma, Ultra's Chief Executive and will feature presentations from members of the Group's operational management teams on the growth drivers affecting cyber security, Ultra's current product offerings within this market and the Group's views on the long-term outlook for budget spending on cyber security.

No material new information will be disclosed during the event.

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Enquiries:

Ultra Electronics Holdings plc 020 8813 4307

Rakesh Sharma, Chief Executive www.ultra-electronics.com

Media enquiries:

Susan Ellis, Senior Communications Adviser 07836 522722

James White, MHP Communications 020 3128 8756

Further information about Ultra:

Ultra Electronics is an internationally successful defence and aerospace company with a long, consistent track record of development and growth. Ultra businesses constantly innovate to create solutions to customer requirements that are different from, and better than, those of the Group's competitors. The Group has over one hundred and sixty distinct specialist capabilities within its twenty six businesses. Its diversity of technology and market niches enables Ultra to contribute to a large number of defence, aerospace and civil platforms and programmes and provides resilience to the Group's financial performance.

Ultra has world-leading positions in many of its niches and, as an independent, non-threatening partner, is able to support all of the main prime contractors with specialist capabilities and solutions. As a result of such positioning, Ultra's systems, equipment or services are often mission-critical to the successful operation of the platform to which they contribute. In turn, this mission-criticality secures Ultra's positions for the long term which underpin the superior financial performance of the Group.

Ultra offers support to its customers through the design, delivery and support phases of a programme. Ultra businesses have a high degree of operational autonomy where the local management teams are empowered to devise and implement competitive strategies that reflect their expertise in their specific niches. The Group has a small head office and executive team that provide to the individual businesses the same agile, responsive support that they provide to customers as well as formulating Ultra's overarching, corporate strategy