KAMAN CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES

Members of the Kaman Corporation Board of Directors and the company's corporate management take governance matters very seriously. This section of the Kaman Web Site includes the full text of the Board of Directors' Corporate Governance Principles. In other portions of this section, you will find a full list of Board members with brief biographical information, and detail on Board Committee Assignments. Effective April 16, 2008, the Board has nine members, eight of whom are independent.

Table of Contents:

1.

Board Membership Criteria

2.

Selection and Orientation of New Directors

3.

Director Elections

4.

Selection of Chairman and CEO

5.

Lead Director

6.

Size of the Board

7.

Independence of the Board

8.

Directors Who Change Their Principal Occupation, Position or Responsibility

9.

Term Limits

10.

Retirement Age

11.

Board Compensation; Stock Ownership Guidelines

12.

Executive Sessions of Independent Directors

13.

Assessing the Board's Performance

14.

Board's Interaction with Institutional Investors, Press, Customers, etc.

Board Relationship to Senior Management

15.

Regular Attendance of Non-Directors at Board Meetings

16.

Board Access to Senior Management

17.

Selection of Agenda Items for Board Meetings; Board Materials and Attendance

18.

Number, Structure and Independence of Committees

19.

Assignment and Rotation of Committee Members

20.

Frequency and Length of Committee Meetings

21.

Committee Agenda

22.

Formal Evaluation of the Chief Executive Officer

23.

Succession Planning and Management Development

February 23, 2009