Minerva Engineering Announces New Contract Award for the SBR Program

Phoenix, Arizona - April 14, 2003

Minerva Engineering today announced that it has been awarded a Time and Materials subcontract to Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems on the Space Based Radar (SBR) Program. Minerva Engineering will be supplementing Northrop Grumman's SBR Systems Engineering team and will be performing requirements engineering and risk reduction activities. The work will be supported from the Minerva Engineering Columbia, Maryland, office.

"Being awarded this contract is a hallmark for us" commented Robert LaBella, Minerva Engineering President and Director of Systems Programs. "It represents further expansion into the Washington DC Region in technical areas where we already have an excellent reputation. Furthermore, the SBR program has a bright, long term and stable future and we're fortunate that Northrop Grumman has chosen us to help." The current SBR program started March 1, 2003 and is expected to continue through CY 2005.

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 an 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.