Minerva Engineering Announces the Opening of It's Rapid Prototyping and Integration Facility in Huntsville, AL

Huntsville, AL - July 01, 2005

Minerva Engineering announced today the opening of its Rapid Prototyping and Integration Facility in Huntsville, AL. The 5800 square foot facility, located within minutes of Redstone Arsenal, contains a meeting space, offices, break room, workshop, materials storage area, integration area and high bay.

Tony Burgett, the manager of the Ground Systems Group described the new facility as "a state of the art integration and test facility for use in the development of complex distributed systems". Currently, the RPIF is being used in support of the AFRL's JCAS program and the US Army's TTCS program. "We're very happy to be hosting the Army and AFRL programs here at the RPIF" commented Mr. Burgett.

Robert La Bella, Minerva Engineering's president and the Director of Business Development noted that the "...opening of the RPIF in Huntsville represents a large step forward for Minerva Engineering. Without this office, it would be extremely difficult to provide the kind of high quality support to government organizations in the area that we feel is essential to Minerva's growth." Mr. La Bella also indicated that "this facility brings with it the capability to provide hardware integration and rapid prototyping capabilities to our other customers across the nation."

With ample room to integrate systems into US Army vehicles, Minerva Engineering's RPIF provides an excellent location for the development and integration of systems. The RPIF also features the latest in CAD tools and facilities for integration and test of board level components through system level elements.

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.