Exhibit 99.1


U. S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                                           OMB Number: 3235-0569
                                                       Expires: January 31, 2003

   Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial
   Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

I, Ned C. Lautenbach, state and attest that:


     (1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports
     of Acterna Corporation, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a
     subsequent covered report:

     o    no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as
          of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
          report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on
          which it was filed); and


     o    no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make
          the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances
          under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period
          covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or
          definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

     (2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's Audit
     Committee

     (3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
     before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     o    the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Acterna Corporation for the fiscal
          year ended March 31, 2002, filed with the Securities and Exchange
          Commission (the "Commission");


     o    all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive
          proxy materials of Acterna Corporation filed with the Commission
          subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

     o    any amendments to any of the foregoing.

/s/Ned C. Lautenbach                       Subscribed and sworn to before me
Ned C. Lautenbach                          this 14th day of August 2002.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
August 14, 2002                            /s/ Jody Terry Notary Public

                                           My Commission Expires: 2004


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Paperwork Reduction Act Disclosure: The Office of Management and Budget has
approved this collection of information pursuant to 44 U.S.C. ss. 3507 and 5
C.F.R. ss. 1320.13. The OMB control number for this collection of information
pursuant to this Order and Exhibit A is 3235-0569, and it expires on January 31,
2003. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a

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collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number.
The information will be used to provide greater assurance to the Commission and
to investors that persons have not violated, or are not currently violating, the
provisions of the federal securities laws governing corporate issuers' financial
reporting and accounting practices, and to aid the Commission in assessing
whether it is necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the
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Commission to recommend legislation to Congress concerning these matters. We
estimate that providing the requested information will take, on average,
approximately 25 hours. Any member of the public may direct to the Commission
any comments concerning the accuracy of this burden estimate and any suggestions
for reducing this burden. Responses to the collection of information are
mandatory and will not be kept confidential.

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