Minerva Engineering Announces the Award of a Subcontract from Booz Allen Hamilton on an IA SETA Contract

Phoenix, Arizona - December 12, 2003

Minerva Engineering announced today that is has been awarded a subcontract by Booz Allen Hamilton on an Information Assurance (IA) Systems Engineering Technical Assistance (SETA) Contract.

Minerva Engineering will be providing IA, Systems Engineering, and Software Engineering support to Booz Allen Hamilton and to their client. All work will be performed from Minerva Engineering's Washington DC office with some on-site support at the client's location.

"Minerva Engineering is very pleased to be working with Booz Allen Hamilton", commented Robert La Bella, company President and Director of Business Development. "We have been interested in finding a way to work with them for quite a while and this opportunity presented itself at just the right time". Mr. La Bella went on to note that Booz Allen Hamilton has "... an excellent track record when it comes to working with small businesses and to date, everything we have seen seems to support that."

Joseph Dickinson, the Northeastern Regional Business Development lead for Minerva Engineering commented that "...we are going to be providing some critical, value-added engineering services to this contract and we are hopeful that it will be the beginning of a significant relationship with Booz Allen Hamilton".

Minerva Engineering is a premier systems and software engineering firm specializing in innovative systems and software engineering and training solutions for large-scale, government and commercial, space-based and terrestrial communications, command and control, and encryption systems. With a strong experienced staff of engineers, software developers, scientists, and analysts, Minerva Engineering is a recognized leader in the areas of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and Specialty Engineering.

Minerva Engineering was founded in 1997 and maintains its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, with several satellite offices throughout the United States including Columbia, Maryland.