Orlando, Florida, June 17, 2002 – Coalescent Technologies Corporation has been awarded an engineering support services contract by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD) to provide AIT requirements determination and analysis; AIT systems design and engineering; systems integration, test, evaluation and installation; life cycle support; and training within the Department of the Navy. This single award, $15.8M engineering services contract will provide NAWC-AD with the necessary engineering and technical support services required to augment NAWC-AD program/project managers and engineers in fulfilling DoD and other customers’ tasking for the development, test and evaluation, deployment, and life cycle support of AIT, AIT-related interface systems, subsystems and equipment.

The Coalescent Team will provide engineering and technical support services to NAWC-AD in the analysis, development and application of leading edge AIT. AIT is a suite of technologies which provides for the automatic collection, storage, retrieval, processing, transmission, and receipt of data utilizing a variety of equipment from simple scanners connected to a desktop computer, to sophisticated handheld computers with integrated scanners, to radios, microcircuit devices, voice recognition, optical laser cards, radio frequency-based identification technologies, and satellite-based transportation tracking. The Coalescent Team will provide systems engineering services to develop new AIT systems, enhance existing AIT systems, and/or augment existing business processes through the integration of AIT both ashore and afloat. Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)/Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) equipment incorporation is mandatory in providing the latest capabilities to NAWC-AD customers. The Coalescent Team is composed of six firms, including industry leaders with extensive engineering support experience and a proven ability to find new ways of using technology to solve the Navy’s most complex AIT challenges. Team members include SRA International, Inc., Logistics Management Institute (LMI), Logmation, Inc., MacSema, Inc., and Unisys Corporation.