Orlando, FL. January 13, 2004 – The announcement was made today that Coalescent Technologies Corporation was awarded a multi-year $6.8 million contract for the design and delivery of the Marine Corps’ Radar Environmental Simulator (RES). The Coalescent RES team is made up of Coalescent and AAI Corporation. The scope of the RES contract includes fabrication, integration, installation, test, demonstration, and factory acceptance of a RES for the Marine Corps’ AN/TPS-59(V)3 radar set. The system provides the Marine Corps with the ability to inject simulated Air Breathing Targets (ABTs), Tactical Ballistic Missile (TBM) targets, clutter, and interference into the radar’s processing system. This will allow for extremely robust analysis in determining the radar’s response to specific threats in various environments without a requirement to physically move the system. Additionally, the RES will provide the Marine Corps the capability to train, at the using unit level, various ABT and TBM deployment scenarios without the cost of having to fly actual aircraft or launch actual missiles.

Coalescent Technologies Corporation is an ISO 9001:2000 certified professional engineering firm that provides sophisticated engineering products and services to the Department of Defense, federal agencies, and commercial clients. Established in 1995, Coalescent is privately owned and operated with headquarters in Orlando, Florida. Coalescent maintains divisional offices in the D.C. metro area, Atlanta, Colorado Springs, and has a large field office located onboard NAVAIR’s Webster Field Annex. Coalescent’s staff includes recognized leaders and performers in electrical and digital engineering, enterprise-level intranets, information technologies, radio frequency identification, modeling, simulation and training.

AAI Corporation is a subsidiary of United Industrial Corporation. AAI is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, with over 200,000 square feet of facility space. Currently, AAI has approximately 1,400 employees, with annual sales of over $200 million. Additionally, AAI currently maintains numerous field offices around the country supporting various customer bases and requirements. AAI has been a leader in manufacturing high technology mechanical and electronic systems for both government and industry.