Minerva Engineering Announces The Award of a NEW CLIN To Develop Subsystems for the TTCS System for the US Army

Huntsville, AL - August 18, 2005

Minerva Engineering announced today that is has been awarded a new Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) on its sole source contract (W911W6-05-C-0048) by the US Army Aviation Technologies Division (AATD, Ft. Eustis, VA) for the development of production versions of power and signal conditioning subsystems for the Army's TTCS Air Traffic Control System.

Using the design documentation delivered under the original task, Minerva Engineering will be responsible for procuring the materials, integrating the subsystems and testing them in accordance with the requirements for the overall system. In addition, Minerva Engineering will be integrating the prototypes into the system which is mounted in a HMMMWV. The newly awarded CLIN is for the production of 19 PDUs (Power Distribution Units).

The work will be performed at Minerva Engineering's Rapid Prototyping and Integration Facility (RPIF) located in Huntsville, AL.

Tony Burgett, Minerva Engineering's Manager for the Ground Systems Group located in Huntsville, AL and the program manager for this effort commented that "the award of this CLIN demonstrates the customer satisfaction with our original prototypes. We were able to introduce several new design efficiencies to make the new units more effective and suitable for the users".

Minerva Engineering provides systems engineering, software engineering and electro-mechanical integration and prototyping services for government space systems and C4ISR tactical systems and components. Minerva Engineering is a private company founded in 1997 and maintains its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, with offices in Washington DC and Huntsville, AL.