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(VALLEY FORGE, PENN.) July 18, 2000 -- A team led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that it has won a contract from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) to support the Ballistic Missile Defense Organizations (BMDO) Wide Bandwidth Information Infrastructure (WBII) program and apply advanced information technology (IT) to missile defense ground test facilities.

The contract is valued at $6.3 million and will be performed over a period of 17 months. The SMDC awarded this contract to the SAIC team based on the IT and wide bandwidth applications SAIC is integrating for the HUBS (Hospitals, Universities, Businesses and Schools) program, which has been supported by the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the U.S. Department of Education.

"The primary aim of HUBS is to utilize state-of-the-art information technology to enhance the economic and intellectual well being of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I am delighted to see that it now includes some of the technologically most advanced centers in Alabama," said U.S. Representative Curt Weldon, (R-PA), one of the proponents of the HUBS initiative. "The technical capabilities being developed and integrated for HUBS have direct applicability for the nations defense systems. By finding solutions to the IT challenges posed by creating the nations first four-state smart region, HUBS is helping to improve our national security."

The SAIC team comprises small and minority-owned businesses which include

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Galaxy Scientific Corporation of Egg Harbor, N.J.; Decisive Analytics Corporation (DAC) of Crystal City, Va.; Miltec Corporation of Huntsville, Ala.; and COLSA, Inc., also of Huntsville, Ala. In addition, Princeton University and Georgia Institute of Technology are providing consultants to SAIC for this project.

"We have assembled an impressive team with significant IT and communications capabilities for this project which SAIC believes will have an enormous intellectual and economic impact for the region," said Dr. Stephen D. Rockwood, SAIC executive vice president. "Working together with the defense community, we plan to demonstrate improvements in interoperability among different weapon systems."

Under this contract, the SAIC team will create a network for geographically distributed ground test facilities for both the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Navy Theater Wide (NTW) missile defense programs.

For the NTW program, the Aegis Weapons System Combat Systems Engineering Development Sites (CSEDS) in Moorestown, N.J., and the Standard Missile-III SIL in Tucson, Ariz., will be linked using networking and virtual private network (VPN) technology. Both HWIL applications will involve information security and interoperability issues.

The SAIC team also will focus on networking technologies to meet scaleable national security classification networking architecture requirements to distribute imagery data for seeker and sensor algorithm developers for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) Project Hercules.

"The WBII program breaks new ground in the application of developmental networking technologies in the areas of interoperability, distributed security and the DoD business process," Dr. James Yoh, president and chief executive officer of Galaxy Scientific Corporation. "In the past, high fidelity system testing was not possible unless all required test resources were local. Now, with the advent of WBII and programs like it, the physical and financial barriers are gone."

"I am pleased to help create truly revolutionary advances in analytical aspects of research and development," said John Donnellon, president of Decisive Analytics

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Corporation. "The practical application of innovative WBII technology will allow complex and data intensive simulations to be utilized to minimize expensive field-testing by creating a laboratory generated virtual environment. DAC also will apply the latest security protection scheme while maintaining throughput sufficient to support real-time analytical experiments."

"Miltecs work consists of High Level Language (HLA) implementation, a very important simulation translation role to elements and systems of the Theater Air and Missile Defense (TAMD) mission," said Don Miller, president and chief executive officer of Miltec. "Miltec believes that WBII has a unique opportunity to enhance the way the TAMD community performs testing and interoperability through the exchange of reliable, stable and high bandwidth data."

COLSA Corporation President, George Williams stated, "Technology research in programs such as WBII is the key to our continued national strength and world competitiveness."

SAIC is the nations largest employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology and systems integration products and services to government and commercial customers. SAIC scientists and engineers work to solve complex technical problems in telecommunications, national security, health care, transportation, energy, the environment and financial services. With annual revenues exceeding $5.5 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 40,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found on the Internet at www.saic.com.

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